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23 Cards in this Set

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Olive Branch Petition
-Politely demanded from the king a ceasefire in Boston, repeal of Coercive Acts, guarantee of American rights
Prohibitory Act
-passed as a measure of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in her American colonies
Common Sense
-Stressed to the American people British maltreatment and emphasuze a need for revolution; appealed to American emotions
Declaration of Independece
-a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.
Thomas Jefferson
-3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; influencial "founding father" known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States.
George Mason
-delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention; called the "Father of the Bill of Rights; considered one of the "founding fathers"
Continental Congress
-a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution.
Articles of Confederation
-states joined for foreign affairs, Congress reigned supreme (lacked executive and judicial), one vote per state, 2/3 vote for bills, unanimous for amendments; too much power to states, unable to regulate commerce or taxes
George Washington
-American commander-in-cheif; first president, set precedents for future presidents, put down Whiskey Rebellion (enforced Whiskey Tax), managed first presidential cabinet, carefully used power of executive to avoid monarchial style rule
Bunker Hill (battle)
-the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city
General Thomas Gage
-a British general, best known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence.
Hessians
-soldiers were eighteenth-century German regiments hired through their rulers by the British Empire.
Lord Cornwallis
-British General and colonial governor Charles Cornwallis was born on Dec. 31, 1738, and died on Oct. 5, 1805. Cornwallis was the eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis. Educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge, he became an Ensign in the 1st (Grenadier) Guards just before his 18th birthday
Nathanael Greene
-a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War; Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer.
John Adams
- A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States
John Jay
- the President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779; leader of the new Federalist Party
Treaty of Paris 1783
-full American independence, territory west of Appalachian ceded to America, loyalists to be compensated for seized property, fishing rights off of Newfoundland
Women during war time
-Rape during wartime appears to have gone through three main stages: rape as a routine and expected reward to the victors, random rape due to lack of military discipline, and systematic rape as a military technique to demoralize the opposition.
Abigail Adams
-the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States.
Civic Virtue
-the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community
Ordinance of 1784
-Seven of the states in the Confederation had at one time or another put forth claims, often overlapping, to lands west of the Appalachians
Northwest Ordinance
-defined process for territories to become states (population reached 60,000), forbade slavery in the new territories
Shays's Rebellion
-mistreated farmers, fear of mobocracy, forced people to think about central government