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WOLFE HISTORY
American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Repeal | To revoke or withdraw formally or officially by express legislature enactment |
| Proclamation Act(line) of 1763 | After French and Indian war king told colonists that they could not move behind th Appalation mountains |
| Samuel Adams | was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. |
| Sons of Liberty | was a political group made up of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. |
| First Continental Congress 1774 | was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution |
| Battle of Lexington-Concord 1775 | were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. |
| minutemen | were members of teams of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, |
| Second Continental Congress 1775 | was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill 1775 | On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial tr |
| Common Sense | A pamphlet written by thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many colonists to break away from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia |
| Declaration of Independance July 4, 1776 | was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. |
| patriots | colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution. |
| loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War |
| Who fought in the American Revolution | African Americans, Native Americans, Mary Ludwig Hays, Deborah Sampson |
| Battle of trenton 1776 | took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. |
| Battle of Saratoga 1777 | conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War (known outside the US as the American War of Independence) and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. The battles were fought eighteen d |
| Battle of Yorktown 1781 | a battle during the Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on the one hand and the United States of America and its allies on the other |
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