Va/us History Test 3

Front 1

Lexington and Concord

Back 1

British victory. Minutemen were patriots

Front 2

Bunker Hill

Back 2

British victory but Britain lost 1054 men fighting against Americans.

Front 3

Moore's Creek Bridge

Back 3

Loyalists vs. Patriots; loyalists lost

Front 4

Saratoga

Back 4

American victory. Turning point in the war because American victory let French ally with colonists

Front 5

Savannah

Back 5

British troops captured Savannah

Front 6

Valley Forge

Back 6

Washington and army took quarters here. Bitter cold and food shortages

Front 7

Kings Mountain

Back 7

American victory. "overmountain" men intercepted Ferguson and destroyed his army here

Front 8

Yorktown

Back 8

ended war with American victory. French trapped British and Cornwallis surrendered

Front 9

Treaty of Paris

Back 9

Britain recognized USA as a new nation; gave Florida to Spain and some territories back to France.

Front 10

Trenton

Back 10

Washington crossed Delaware and attacked hired Hessians without losing a single American life

Front 11

events leading up to Revolutionary War

Back 11

England's taxation without representation; king's ignoring rights of the colonists

Front 12

stamp act

Back 12

tax on all printed materials

Front 13

Washington

Back 13

leadership held the Continental Army together even when defeat seemed inevitable.

Front 14

Patriots

Back 14

thought the British had become tyrants

Front 15

Michael Johnson (Crispus Attacks)

Back 15

first person to die during Boston Massacre.

Front 16

Proclamation of 1763

Back 16

prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian mts.

Front 17

two men whose ideas are reflected in the DOI

Back 17

Thomas Paine and John Locke

Front 18

minutemen

Back 18

colonial soldiers named this for their ability to be ready for battle quickly

Front 19

outcomes of French and Indian war

Back 19

debt of England, loss of power in NA for France, Proclamation of 1763.

Front 20

manumission

Back 20

Virginia's law for the voluntary freeing of slavers

Front 21

Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom

Back 21

Virginia no longer had an official church and the state could not collect taxes for church

Front 22

loyalists

Back 22

group of colonists supported Britain

Front 23

Quartering Act

Back 23

caused the colonists to pay for their own defense

Front 24

emancipation

Back 24

freedom from enslavement

Front 25

Albany Plan of Union

Back 25

proposed the colonies unite to form a federal govt.

Front 26

colony that did not come to Continental Congress

Back 26

Georgia

Front 27

VA state constitution

Back 27

guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, right to trial by jury

Front 28

Thomas Paine

Back 28

wrote "Common Sense" and influential on Declaration of Independence

Front 29

Thomas Jefferson

Back 29

wrote Declaration of Independence

Front 30

William Howe

Back 30

commanded 32,000 British soldiers

Front 31

Robert Morris

Back 31

financially supported war for Americans; set up Bank of North America to finance war

Front 32

Marquis de Lafayette

Back 32

In Valley Forge, helped Washington improve morale and discipline among weary troops

Front 33

Benedict Arnold

Back 33

traitor; tried to surrender to Britain at West Point

Front 34

John Paul Jones

Back 34

American naval officer; boarded British ship while sinking and made Britain surrender

Front 35

Charles Cornwallis

Back 35

surrendered at Kings mt. and Yorktown to end Revolution

Front 36

Anthony Wayne

Back 36

led American force and prevented Britain from conquering Va; pushed Cornwallis to Yorktown