Colonial America
Founded by Puritans, focused on trade, shipbuilding, and fishing due to rocky soil.
The New England Colonies
Established for economic reasons, relied on plantation economy with indentured servants and enslaved laborers.
Southern Colonies
Pamphlet by Thomas Paine advocating for independence.
Common Sense
On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty boarded British East India Company Ships and destroyed property.
Boston Tea Party
After three weeks of fighting, General Cornwallis surrendered to Washington on October 17, 1781. This victory ended the American Revolution.
Battle of Yorktown
Ethnically diverse, relied on good harbors for trade, produced agriculture, lumber, and iron products.
The Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Tax requiring special stamps on printed materials, leading to colonial protests and formation of Sons of Liberty.
Stamp Act
Document explaining reasons for independence from Britain
Declaration of Independence
(1754-1763) was a North American conflict between Great Britain and France, with both sides supported by various Native American tribes, as part of a larger global conflict known as the Seven Years' War.
French and Indian War
Ended Revolutionary War, granted US independence and land.
Treaty of Paris 1783
An economic system where a country tries to get wealthy by exporting more than it imports and by controlling trade.
Mercantilism
Punitive measures closing Boston port, allowing trials in England, and quartering troops on colonists' property.
Intolerable Acts
Delegates drafting rationale for independence, including Jefferson
Committee of Five
Washington used the poor weather conditions and geographic challenge of a river crossing to aid him in successfully carrying out the surprise attack..
Battle of Trenton
Negotiated settlement that ended the French and Indian War. France turned over control of Canada to Great Britain. Surrendered claim to all land east of the Mississippi River, with the exception of the city of New Orleans.
Treaty of 1763
Brought to English colonies for labor on plantations, primarily in Southern colonies.
African Slaves
The unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade.
Salutary Neglect
Groups appointed by the legislatures in the 13 British American colonies to provide colonial leadership and aid intercolonial cooperation.
Committees of Correspondence
This 1777 battle was the turning point of the American Revolution, convincing France to ally with the colonies.
The Battle of Saratoga
"No Taxation without.....
Representation"
Voyage transporting enslaved Africans to North America, part of the triangular trade.
Middle Passage
Royal proclamation that forbade English colonists from settling newly acquired land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
-series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
Townshend Acts
Prussian military officer who helped train the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force.
Baron von Steuben
Commander in chief of the Continental Army, displayed leadership.
George Washington
Merchant ships trading rum, cloth for African slaves, and American raw materials, and British Finished products, maintaining triangular trade route.
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Secret group opposing British rule, damaging British property.
Sons of Liberty
Formal female association formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts.
Daughters of Liberty
-French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution.
Marquis de Lafayette
formal female association formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts.
Daughters of Liberty