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OC CH 3 Bryan H. P3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Triangular trade | Trade between Africa, West Indies, and America; provided needed supplies for each area; smuggled goods; slaves from Africa |
| Great Awakening | Religious movement that swept through the colonies; emotional sermons; Jonathan Edwards; George Whitfield; Made the colonists want political equality; changed society |
| The French and Indian war | 1675, tension erupted to war called king philips war ended 1676 600 colinist and 3000 indians killed. |
| townshend acts | -allowed officials to come into peoples homes and search for smuggled goods!!!! |
| Proclamation Act of 1763 | declared the land that colonies owned |
| samuel adems | one of the founding fathers of america |
| boycott | where people refuse to by certain goods |
| stamp act of 1765 | an act that made colonist pay for a stamp on paper goods |
| repeal | to cancle something |
| boston massacre | started by snowball fight ended in 5 people dead |
| boston tea party | colonist dressed in mask and dumped tea after being overly taxed |
| sons of liberty | a group that tormented tax collectors |
| intolerable acts | example. they closed boston harbor to get back at colonists for the tea party |
| first continental congress | a meeting of people from the colonies that met durring the american revolution |
| battle of lexington | first military meeting |
| minutemen | people who are there waiting to fight as soon as they are needed |
| second continental congress | |
| battle of bunker hill | in july 17 when boston was attaked |
| common sense | by thomas paine sold millions of copy's |
| thomas jefferson | auther of doi third pesident (doi=declaration of independence) |
| declaration of independence | when the colonies declared independence from brittan |
| patriots | those who wanted to break form brittan |
| loyalists | people who stayed attached with the brittish or were loyal to them |
| people "left out"of the doi | slaves and woman were left out |
| who fought in the american revolution | america french dutch and brittish |
| advantages and disadvantages of British colonial force | brittish were far from home so they didnt have many supplies |
| battle of trenton | american revolutionary war |
| battle of saratoga | decided the fate of general John Burgoyne's army in the american revolutionary war |
| battle of yorktown | 1781-brittish americans and french |
| treaty of paris | september 3,1783 ended the american revolutionary war |