People
Participated in the Boston Massacre and was killed by British Soldiers
Crispus Attucks
At midnight on the night of Dec. 16th, 1773, while three East India Company ships were docked in Boston, the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indigenous people, boarded the ships and dumped 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
Tax on all paper goods
Stamp Act
The first time delegates from all over the colonies got together as a result of the Coercive Acts issued by British parliment
The First Continental Congress
Prompted President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
Maintained an aggressive policy against colonial resistance
King George III
Who did British Parliament require to pay war debts from the French and Indian War?
The colonies
England's Mercantilist practices were a factor in the onset of the American Revolution
belief that the colonies existed for the benefit and wealth of the mother country
The first shot heard around the world
Lexington and Concord
What effect did the War of 1812 have on the United States?
The Industrial Revolution
Who was the author of Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
This war was fought over the Ohio River Valley, west of the Appalachian Mountains
The French and Indian War
Why did the issuing of the Proclamation of 1763 anger colonists?
Colonists were prohibited from settling land west of the Appalachians
Major turning point in the American Revolutionary War
Battle of Saratoga
Gave Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy into two sections
Battle of Vicksburg
Was a member of the Sons of Liberty and helped to organize the Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
Due to the ______ from Great Britain, the British did not enforce laws and policies. This practice is known as _____ ______.
Distance, Salutary Neglect
The Boston Tea Party is an example of...
Civil Disobedience
The Continental Army trained here but a quarter of them died before spring
Winter at Valley Forge 1777
Major turning point that stopped General Lee's invasion of the North
Battle of Gettysburg
Defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre
John Adams
The British policy of Salutary Neglect led to
Lowered tax, but officers took smugglers' goods without going to court
General Cornwallis surrenders here after he was surrounded by both the Continental Army and French ships in the Chesapeake Bay
Battle of Yorktown
"Father of the American Navy"
John Paul Jones