Term | Definition |
Age of Revolution | 1775-1848
American, French, Hatian, Greek Revolutions
Revolt of slaves in Latin America
British lost 13 Colonies |
King George III | King of Britain and Ireland
Britain defeated France in 7 Years War under his
reign
Lost 13 Colonies in Revolutionary War
Mentally Ill |
Virtual Representation | Persons who are unable to vote are represented by legal voters |
Stamp act of 1756 | Required colonists to pay tax on printed resources
Documents not legal until stamped
Cause of Boston Tea Party |
Wool Act | Attempt to heighten taxes and increase control over trade and production in the colonies
Forbid export of wool out of colonies |
Molasses Act | Imposed tax of 6 pence per gallon on molasses imports from non-english colonies |
"No Taxation Without Representation" | Slogan by colonists which was cause of American Revolution |
Stamp Act Congress | Congressmen worked together for the first time from all different states to devise a protest against the stamp act |
Committees of Correspondence | Colonies' first act of working together to maintain communication and work against Great Britain |
Sons of Liberty | Large group of workers against the Stamp Act
Masterminds of Boston Tea Party
Burned custom house where stamps were kept
Samuel Adams and Paul Revere |
Declatory Act 1776 | Parliament repealed Stamp act and passed this act which reaffirmed their right to "bind" the colonies |
The Regulators | Settlers in Carolinas made themselves regulators because there was no government |
Daughters of Liberty | Female patriots that protested treatment by the British Colonies and boycott of British goods |
Boston Massacre | Fight in the town center where colonists threw snowballs, sticks, and stones at British soldiers
Many wounded and killed |
Boston Tea Party | Protest against taxation
Sons of liberty threw 342 chests of tea overboard from British ships
Resulted in Coercive Acts andpushed two sides closer to war |
Intolerable Acts 1774 | The Intolerable Acts was a name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in
1774 after the Boston Tea party intended to punish the colonists of Massachusetts for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. |
Quebec Act | Passed by parliament of Great Britain
Design to extend boundaries of Quebec and grant religious freedom to catholic canadians |
Continental Congress | Delegates from each of the 13 colonies who became the governing central of the U.S. during the revolution |
Second Continental Congress | Delegates that met after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun |
Thomas Paine | Political philosopher that shaped many new ideas during the Revolution |
Common Sense | Written by Thomas Paine
First writing to advocate for American independence |
Thomas Jefferson | American Founding Father
Principal author of Declaration of Independence
Third president of U.S. |
Declaration of Independence | States government exists for benefit of the people and that all men are created equal
Granted independence from Britain and King George
Stated grievances |
American Exceptionalism | A new free nation full of liberty with democratic ideals |
British Advantages during Revolution | Best military in the world
Well trained and equipped soldiers
Had a lot of funding
Most indians sided with Britain |
American Advantages during Revolution | War was fought in their country
Alliance with the French
Better rifles |
George Washington | First president of U.S.
Commander in chief of Revolutionary War
Founding Father |
Lord Dunmore | Governor of New York
America's "first villain"
Lacked diplomatic skills (gunpowder incident) |
Key Battles of Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Saratoga |
The French Alliance | Stated that if war broke out between France and Great Britain, France and America would fight together |
Treaty of Paris 1783 | Ended Revolutionary War
Recognized American independence |
John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" | United colonists against the Townshend Acts
Argued taxes from parliament that were an effort to bring in revenue rather than regulate trade were unconstitutional |