American History unit 1 test – Flashcards
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Thomas Paine
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he wrote common sense
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Yorktown
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location: Yorktown leaders: Cornwallis, Washington outcome: Americans and French surrounded Cornwallis and bombarded casing him to surrender and the Americans ended up winning the war
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battle of Trenton
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location: new jersey leaders: Washington outcome: colonist kill hessians while they are asleep and drunk
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battle of Guilford courthouse
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location: courthouse in North Carolina leaders: Cornwallis and Greene outcome: British won but lost a lot of their troops
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battle of Saratoga
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location: Saratoga leaders: gates, john, Washington outcome: British surrenders to Americans but they change their war strategy
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navigation act
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a series of laws restricting colonial trade colonial merchants resented act and kept trading and smuggling
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dominion of new England
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put all northern colonies under one ruler in Boston northern colonies did not like it so Massachusetts sent most prominent minister to see if they would change it
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writs of assistance
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allowed British customs official to search any ship or building colonists would sue in court and remove it but they failed
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sugar act
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halve duty of foreign made molasses, placed duties on certain imports, strengthened enforcement of the law colonists boycotted and the act was repealed
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proclamation act
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banned al settlements west of the Appalachian mountains/ established proclamation line colonists were not allowed to cross proclamation line but colonists kept crossing it and moving west
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stamp act
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required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for everything that had to do with the government it reached into every colonists pocket and whoever didn't follow it would be tried in a court
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declatory act
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parliament had permission to make any laws they want to there was no reaction
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Townshend acts
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indirect taxes of imported materials colonist reacted with rage and said "taxation without representation"
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intolerable acts
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king George 3rd tightens control over Massachusetts by closing Boston harbor and quartering troops colonial leaders from the first continental congress drew up a declaration of colonial rights
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tea act
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Britain gives the east India company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea merchants thy rebel by dumping 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor (Boston tea Party)
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Declaration of independence
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written by Thomas Jefferson
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minutemen
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soldiers that could be ready in a minute
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treaty of Paris
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this treaty ended the French and Indian war
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mercantilism
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a country ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and all country were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver
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salutatory neglect
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relaxed and did not pay attention to colonies following navigation acts (England)
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Boston massacre
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mob started throwing things at British soldiers and the British reacted with violence
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Paul revere
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he is apart of the sons of liberty
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common sense
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Thomas Paine wrote this and it was a pamphlet that attacked the king and told colonists it was time to create an indirect republic
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friedrich von steuben/marquis de Lafayette
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helped Washington make the colonial army into a well trained army
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equalitarianism
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a belief in the equality of people (only white males)
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America after war
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they would no longer have kings, they would eventually create a government
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French and Indian war
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both the French and the British were after the Ohio river valley
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Albany plan of union
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tried to unite colony's but got rejected
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sons of liberty
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organized boycotts
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committees of correspondence
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they would communicate protests
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1st continental congress
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told king they will not follow him if he did not give them their rights and that ended up starting Lexington and concord-Paul revere
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2nd continental congress
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bunker hill- after this they offered the olive branch petition to the king
