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American Revolution Erika Valenzuela P.4

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Triangular Trade Trade between The American Colonies and Great Britain was not direct.A System where goods and slaves were traded among the Americans,Britain,and Africa.Slaves were brought from West Africa to the West Indies.
Great Awakening Religious leaders wanted to spread religious feelings throughout the colonies.A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.Also Affected social and political life.Jonathan Edwards was important leader of Great Awakening.
The French And Indian War 1754* By 1670s tensions had arisen between New England Colonists Wampanoag.Me mpanoag was known as king Philip,opposed the colonists efforts to take them land.The colonial militiacivilians serving as soldiers -fought American Indian warriors.Both si
Proclamation Act (Line)of 1763* The Proclamation of 1763 forbade English colonists to live west of the Appalachian Mountains. Following the French and Indian War, Native Americans residing in the Ohio Country feared that American settlers would flood into the region.
Samuel Adams At Boston in town meeting May 1764,he agreed with Otis.HE believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission.Adams and Otis idea summed up in the slogan"NO TAXATION WITHOUTH REPRESENTATION".
Boycott Was a very effectriveway of protesting parliament repealed some fo the taxes as a result.Refusal to buy certain products ,colonists refused to buy British goods that were taxed in Paper,Lead,Tea,Glass and more.
Stamp Act 1765* Required colonists to pay for an official stamp,or seal,when they bought paper items.The tax had to be paid on legal documents,newspaper,pamphlets,& even playing cards.Britain people already paid similar taxes.Was Parliament's first attempt to raise money
Repeal Showed the coplonists could cause parliament to change ,colonists had power.Means to remove or take back.Parliament repealed many of the taxes on the colonists.
Townshend Acts 1767* Parliament passed Townshend Acts.These Acts placed duties on paint,glass,lead,&tea.British officials used writs of assistance.
Boston Massacre1770* Colonists called the shootings.Many Bostonians saw the presence of British government against its critics in Massachusettts.Some colonists agreed with Samuel Adams "I LOOK UPON(BRITISH SOLDIERS)AS FOREIGNENEMIES."Soldiers knew they were not welcome.
Boston Tea Party 1773* After dumping 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor,the colonists headed home to remove their disguises.British officials knew that the colonial demand for tea was high despite the boycott.But colonial merchants were smuggling most of this imported tea.
Sons Of Liberty Samuel Adams helped organized the group in boston.The colonists formed it a secret society.
Intolerable Acts 1774* In the spring of 1774 it passed the Coercive Acts.TheActs had several effects.Lord North,New British prime minister,was furious when he heard about the Boston Tea Party.Parliament decided to punished Boston.
First Continental Congress 1774* A gathering in the fall of 1774 of delegates from throughout the colonies.Virginia delegate patrick Henry & othe rradicals believed that violence was unaivoldable..They halted all trade with Britian & alerted the colonial militiasmto prepared for war.
First Continental Congress 1774* Two groups of people from all over the 13was a group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) who met in Philadelphi Colonies who came together to discuss liberty.They came together to act together in response to the Intolerable Acts.
Minutemen Members of the civilian volunteer militia. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion and ravages of war. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion and ravages of war.
Second Continental Congress 1775* When the Revolutionary war had started. Things were going badly, and the armed forces were disorganized. The Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington as commander-in-chief.
Battle OF Bunker Hill 1775* Proved the colonists could take on british. By evening of that day the British held the Charlestown peninsula, and a new respect for the determination and resourcefulness of colonial forces.The Redcoats would have to cross Boston Harbor in boats & figh.
Common Sense Argued that citizens not,kings or queens should make laws.And changed the way comolinsts viewed their king.A Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that citized monoechies & convinced many American colonists of the need to break away form british.
Thomas Jefferson He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice president in the administration of John Adams. Thomas Jefferson was "author of the Declaration of American Independence.
Declaraton OF Independence July 4,1776* It ignored many colonists.Th e revolution raised questions about wheter slavery should exist in a land that valved liberty.The document written to declare the colonies free from british rule.
Patriots Chose to fight for Independence.Historians estimate that 40-45% of AMericans were patriots,while 20-30% were loyaltits.Loyaltists and patriots bacame opponents.
Loyalists Sometimes called Tories were those who remained loyal to Great Britain.More than 50,000 Loyalists fled during the Revolutio.The Great Patriot Benjamin Franklin had a Loyalists son.
People "Left out "of the Declaration Of Independence
Who Fought(groups) in the American Revolution
Advanges & Disadvantages of British & Colonial Forces
Battle Of Trenton 1776* In the harsh winter Washington was faced with the annual crisis of the expiry of the Continental Army’s period of enlistment. He resolved to attack the Hessian position at Trenton on the extreme southern end of the over extended British line.
Battle of Saragota1777* In NY was the greatest victory yet for the American forces.British general John Burgoyne came up with a plan to push through NY,Burgoyne's army would invade from Canada,recapture Fort Ticonderoga & sweep south to Albany.
Battle OF YorkTown 1781* Was the last major battle of the American Revolution.War was going badly for patriots.The help of their foreign allies had not ended the war as quickly as they hoped.Prime Minister Lord North received word of the YT surrender in November.
Treaty of Paris 1783* Great Britian recognized the Independence of the U.S.benjamin Franklin had an influential role in the negotiations.I
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