APUSH 1
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
French name for Fur Trappers
Coureurs De Bois
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
A formal statement that expressed the colonies’ desire to separate from the British and form their own government. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The conflict of the French and Indian War began as a battle to control this territory
Ohio River Valley
Who was the first individual killed at the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
An act passed by the British parliament in 1766 that raised revenue from the American colonies to pay off French and Indian war debt by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
What is the The Stamp Act?
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists. It was REJECTED by the British king.
Olive Branch Petition
The first shots of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord
Name 2 components of the Intolerable Acts
Shut down Boston Harbor, New Quartering Act, Reduced Colonial government (No town hall meetings) Allowed British officials to be tried in England for crimes committed in the colonies.
The purpose of the First Continental Congress
Address the taxation issues with Great Britain
An event that occurred on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists who were protesting the taxes imposed by the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Peace settlement in which the British formally recognized American independence and granted them the land west to the Mississippi and fishing rights in Newfoundland.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783) ?
List 2 advantages/disadvantages that the Colonists had in the Revolutionary War
+ "home field advantage"
+help from France and Spain
-no army or navy
-no central government
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
Courts introduced in the colonies to put on a trial colonists who oppose taxation. These courts did not allow a jury, was heard by a Royal Judge, and the defendant was considered guilty until proven innocent
What is the Admiralty Courts
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Saratoga?
List the 4 port cities that were/are instrumental for colonial trade. The British thought that if they could capture these major ports the colonists would have to surrender.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston
Led by Samuel Adams in Boston. a committee whose goals were to communication with other assemblies in the other colonies, educate the townspeople on their political rights, and obviously, rally support to the cause of American independence against British rule.
Committees of Correspondence
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state (aka religious freedom).
What is The Enlightenment
List 2 advantages/disadvantages Britain had in the Revolutionary War
+massive army and navy
+ strong central government to make decisions
+strong financial system
-having to keep an eye on France in Europe
-poor military leaders
Common Sense discussed the concept of Republicanism. Define that term
Consent of the governed.
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
Benjamin Franklin’s plan to create a centralized government for the Thirteen Colonies. It failed when only 7 colonies sent representatives. However, it did mark the first effort at achieving colonial unity.
What is the Albany Plan?
List 3 of the 4 Major Events of 1763
End of French and Indian War, Proc Line, Pontiac's Rebellion, End of Salutary Neglect
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
Explain the concept of "principle over price" when the British East India Company was given a monopoly of tea and lowered their prices.
colonists argued that the British East India's monopoly on tea was unfair to colonial tea importers, despite fact that the Tea Act lowered the price of tea in America
Native American uprising against the British, who were expanding into the Ohio Territory. They began attacking colonial settlements but were later suppressed by British troops.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront, urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government, advocated for full citizenship
Who is Abigail Adams?
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender by Cornwallis forecast the end of British rule.
What is Yorktown?