US History chapter 3.4 – 4 – Flashcards

British blockade of French shipping.

The tensions between the British and their colonies.

George Washington

The British were successful in driving the French from North America

The French and most of the Indians against the British and the British colonists

The French and the British competed with each other to win Indian support.

The colonists rejected it, and the British had second thoughts about it.

British settlers flooding into Indian lands in western Pennsylvania and Virginia.

True

Seven Years' War.

They thought Patriots were too radical.

Declare independence from the British king.

The consent of the governed

Lexington

Thomas Jefferson

Paine talked about opportunities for the common man.

The Patriot victory at Saratoga.

Hostility between white settlers and Native Americans deepened.

Persistence in fighting.

Saratoga

New Jersey

The British lost twice as many troops as did the Patriots.

Eliminated in the North

They lost large amounts of land.

Other republican groups fought to overthrow aristocratic governments.

Drew British troops away from battles with the Patriots.

Ceded far more territory to the United States than the colonies had won in the war.

The British occupation of Yorktown

The Southern plantation economy depended on slavery.

Right to pay no taxes unless it was levied by their own representatives.

The Quartering Act and the Coercive Acts

Crispus Attucks

Samuel Adams

George III

Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

Boston Massacre

Virginia Resolves

John Hanncock

Increased tariff on sugar (and other imports), attempted to harder enforce existing tariffs

Between the British and Indians, it restricted colonial settlers to east of the Appalachian Mountains

Blanket search warrant. Can search anyone, anywhere, anytime, for anything-- w/o probable cause

Taxes on all legal documents to support British troops, not approved by colonists through their representatives

Enlightenment idea embodied by the Declaration of Independence that all men have rights which governments cannot take away

Politely demanded from the king a cease-fire in Boston, repeal of Coercive Acts, guarantee of American rights

Americans fighting for their freedom

Were 18th-century German soldiers hired through their rulers by the British Empire

Most powerful nation on earth; largest/best navy; richest economy; experienced Army; Indians and Tories on their side; Can occupy any city they want

Transoceanic War; home support-people willing to pay heavy taxes to win; other commitments—Empire; spread over a huge area; Brit. control only where the army is concentrated

Paper money that was not worth much

Hudson River and flows into the Atlantic Ocean by New York; Benedict Arnold tried to give up plans for West Point

Defeat of British troops after their evacuation of Philadelphia in June 1778

Taxes on various imported goods

British victory but America inflicted high causalities

Pennsylvania camp where Washington's army spent the harsh winter of 1777-1778; scarce supplies (food and clothing), army motivated by Baron von Steuben

British general whose mistakes resulted in many British deaths at Bunker Hill

One of the most trusted generals of the Revolutionary army was Nathanael Greene, Washington's friend and comrade-in -arms

Was a Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War

Was a French admiral and nobleman. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown.

Was a British army officer and politician, best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence

Organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other British laws and taxes

Ambassador to France who persuaded the French to aid the Americans

French nobleman who assisted Washington

Was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army

British general defeated at Princeton and later forced to surrender at Yorktown

Wife of artilleryman William Hays, carried water to cool both the cannon and the soldiers in her husband's battery—hence the nickname "Molly Pitcher."