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23 Cards in this Set
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What was the Olive Branch Petition?
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- conciliatory appeal to king
- signed and approved during second continental Congress - right after Lexington and Concord, before war got serious |
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What was the Prohibitory Act?
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- closed colonies to all overseas trade
- after colonies decided for sure that they wanted independance and not just redress |
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What was Common Sense?
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pamphlet written thomas payne
agued that the colonists needed not to blame parliament or even ministers but the set up of the whole gov.; the constitution itself: said any gov. that could be such a jerk and permit Georgie to be such a jack***, well it would be common sense for the colonists to separate. This convinced a lot of the colonists, sold 100,000+ copies |
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What was the Declaration of Independence?
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- declared independence from Britian
- written by Thomas Jeferson |
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Who was Thomas Jefferson?
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- writer of Declaration of Independence
- 2nd presidenct - philospher - secretary of state - diplomat for france |
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Who was George Mason?
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- American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Along with James Madison, he is called the "Father of the Bill of Rights."For these reasons he is considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States
- yay individual rights!! |
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What was the Continental Congress?
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- convention of delegates from 13 colonies which governed nation during revolutionary war
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What were the Articles of Confederation?
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- agreed on system already in place, said states = real powers, continental congress = coordinator, didn’t have much power & was not sure of own legitimacy
- couldn't stop Shay's Rebellion - ended up needing revision |
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Who was George Washington?
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- General in Revolutionary war
- 1st pres - resided over Constitutional Congress |
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What was Bunker Hill?
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- colonists vs. Thomas Gage + troops
- actually on Breed’s Hill, June 1775 - Brits had bigger losses than colonists - Aft. a while British decided Boston too hard to besiege b/c easily defended b/c landscaping + heart of anti-British region of colonies – British evacuation of Boston - AMERICAN WIN |
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Who was General Thomas Gage?
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- general at bunker hill (American win)
- involved in French & Indian war & Pontiac's rebellion |
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Who were the Hessians?
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-German mercenaries hired through german gov for Brits during Revolutionary war
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Who was Lord Conwallis?
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leading British general in the American War of Independence
- 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America |
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Who was Nathanael Greene?
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- major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
- tactically broke up his troops into small groups which refrained form outright battle - result was Cornwallis lost so many men he retreated to Yorktown |
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Who John Adams?
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-2nd pres
- founding father - vice pres for washington - federalist - midnight appoinments in judiciary branch, jerk face!! |
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Who was John Jay?
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- served as the President of the Continental Congress 1778-1779
- During and after Revolution, was ambassador to Spain and France - wrote Jay's Treaty - between the US and Britain, credited with averting war, solved many issues left over from the Revolution and Treaty of Paris of 1783, & opened ten+ years of mostly peaceful trade between US & Britain in midst of the French Revolutionary Wars (began in 1793) - helped write the federalist papers - was obviously federalist |
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What was the Treaty of Paris 1783?
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- Treaty Between US and Britian
- ended war - 1. Acknowledging the Thirteen Colonies to be free, sovereign and independent States, britian + heirs relinquish rights 2.Establishing the boundaries between the United States and British North America 3.Granting fishing rights to United States fishermen in the Grand Banks, off the coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; 4.Recognizing the lawful contracted debts to be paid to creditors on either side; 5.The Congress of the Confederation will "earnestly recommend" to state legislatures to recognize the rightful owners of all confiscated lands "provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British subjects [Loyalists]"; 6.United States will prevent future confiscations of the property of Loyalists; 7.Prisoners of war on both sides are to be released and all property left by the British army in the United States unmolested (including slaves); 8.Great Britain and the United States were each to be given perpetual access to the Mississippi River; 9.Territories captured by Americans subsequent to treaty will be returned without compensation; 10.Ratification of the treaty was to occur within six months from the signing by the contracting parties. |
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What significance was had by Women during Wartime?
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- Women served as:
- Nurses - cannon handlers - maintaining camp (cooking, laundrey, etc - organized boycotts (Daughters of Liberty) - organized spinning bees and other things to ease dependence on british goods |
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Who was Abigail Adams?
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- 2nd 1st lady
- wife of john adams - mother of john Q adams - liked oyster ice cream :) - frequently gave political advice to husband |
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What was Civic Virtue?
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- believed:
- republic would only survive as long as voting population made up of independent property owners imbued w/ civic virtue, would die if made of a few aristocratic rich prats & a bunch of dependent workers - all men equal, aristocratic birth does not matter |
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What was the Ordinance of 1784?
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- called for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River & east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states.
- did not define the mechanism by which the land would become states, or how the territories would be governed or settled before they became states. - The Land Ordinance of 1785, along with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, were intended to address these political needs. |
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What was the Northwest Ordinance?
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- Adressed the needs of Ordinance of 1784
- created NorthWest Territory for establishment as states |
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What was Shay’s Rebellion?
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- armed uprising in Massachusetts from 1786-1787
- due to farmer/former militia soldier uncontent b/c taxes resulting in loss of land and jailing for debts & govs inability to act |
