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33 Cards in this Set
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was an incident where Patriots led by Samuel Adams dressed up as Native Americans and flung £10,000 worth of the East India Company’s property into the sea. |
The Boston Tea Party |
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colonists who banded together to protest the Stamp Act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s. The group originated in Boston in 1765 but soon spread to all the colonies. |
Sons of Liberty |
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a military force created by Virginia’s royal governor, Lord Dunmore, in November 1775 that enlisted one thousand slaves who had fled their Patriot owners. |
Ethiopian Regiment |
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tiny electoral districts for Parliament whose voters were controlled by wealthy aristocrats or merchants. John Wilkes called for the elimination of these districts |
Rotten Boroughs |
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was the term for Parliament’s claim that even though America elected no MP’s their interests were adequately represented by MP’s elected by the merchants who traded with the colonies |
Virtual Representation |
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These legal institutions had jurisdiction over colonists suspected of smuggling goods in violation of the Navigation Acts and presumed those accused were guilty. |
Vice Admiralty Courts |
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were groups of colonial women whose production of homespun textiles and other goods that replaced British imports became indispensable to the non-importation movements. |
Daughters of Liberty |
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is the Enlightenment idea that the ultimate power of government resides with the governed, and that the all government requires the consent of the governed for legitimacy. |
Popular Sovereignty |
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were volunteers who formed the core of the citizens' army that met British troops at Lexington and Concord in April 1775. |
Minutemen |
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A deadly outbreak of violence in March 1770. It became the subject of a famous engraving issued by a silversmith named Paul Revere. |
The Boston Massacre |
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were set up to allow colonial leaders to communicate after the British threatened to seize the Americans responsible for burning the Gaspée and prosecute them in Britain. |
Committees of Correspondence |
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This Virginian was credited with writing the Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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The Second Continental Congress chose him as commander of the Continental Army. |
George Washington |
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were opponents of ratification of the Constitution who feared that a powerful and distant central government would be out of touch with the needs of citizens. |
Antifederalist |
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This 1779 announcement declared that any slave who deserted a rebel master would receive protection, freedom, and land from Great Britain |
Philipsburg Proclamation |
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was a 1786-1787 uprising led by dissident farmers in western Massachusetts, many of them Revolutionary War veterans, protesting the taxation policies of the eastern elites who controlled the state's government |
Shay’s Rebellion |
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was the author of the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" |
Thomas Paine |
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was the British Prime Minister whose administration passed the Stamp Act. |
George Greenville |
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The native American uprising that occurred in 1763 and forced the British to establish the Proclamation Line that enraged colonial Americans. |
Pontiac’s Rebellion |
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This was a military camp where George Washington's army of 12,000 soldiers and hundreds of camp followers suffered horribly in the winter of 1777-1778. |
Valley Forge |
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This battle convinced the French to join the American colonies in a alliance against Great Britain |
Saratoga |
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The American Revolution began here. |
Lexington & Concord |
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The was the last major battle of the American Revolution |
Yorktown |
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Washington won these victories after crossing the Delaware River and saved the Revolution. |
Trenton and Princeton |
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The British learned not to make frontal assaults on entrenched American positions at this battle. |
Bunker Hill |
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It established a process by which settled territories would become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It also banned slavery there, |
Northwest Ordinance |
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It was American's first governing document required a unanimous vote to pass legislation. |
Articles of Confederation |
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To win over opponents of the Constitution, leading Federalists promised this would get added to the Constitution |
Bill of Rights |
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John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison authored these in support of the Constitution |
Federalist Paper |
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New York city was a full of traitors and loyalists during the American Revolution. |
True |
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Called for a unicameral legislature with equal representation |
New Jersey Plan |
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Called for a bicameral legislature with proportional representation |
Virginia Plan |
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Called for a bicameral legislature with equal representation in one chamber and proportional in the other. |
Great Compromise |
