AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 5 The American Revolution and Confederation, 1774-1787
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| 5295497885 | First Continental Congress | In September 1774 all of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates to a convention in Philadelphia. The purpose was to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and liberties caused by Intolerable Acts. (p. 85) |  | 0 |
| 5295497886 | Samuel Adams | Radical delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He started Committees of Correspondence. |  | 1 |
| 5295497887 | Patrick Henry | Radical delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. (p. 85) |  | 2 |
| 5295497888 | John Adams | Radical delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He had acted as a lawyer for British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. |  | 3 |
| 5295497889 | George Washington | Moderate delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. He had a position of respect in Colonial army. |  | 4 |
| 5295497890 | John Dickinson | Moderate delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He write "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania". | 5 | |
| 5295497891 | John Jay | Conservative delegate from New York to the Continental Congress. |  | 6 |
| 5295497892 | Joseph Galloway | Conservative delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He proposed a plan that would have reordered relations with Parliament, but the plan lost by one vote. | 7 | |
| 5295497893 | Suffolk Resolves | The First Continental Congress adopted it. It rejected the Intolerable Acts and called for their repeal; they also urged the colonies to make military preparations and organize boycotts. (p. 86) | 8 | |
| 5295497894 | Declaration for Rights and Grievances | The First Continental Congress passed this resolutions urging the king to make right colonial grievances and restore colonial rights. (p. 86) | 9 | |
| 5295497895 | economic sanctions | a.k.a boycotts |  | 10 |
| 5295497896 | Lexington and Concord | On April 18, 1775 British soldiers in Boston were sent to this town to seize colonial military supplies. This is where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired. The British then moved on to this second town. (p. 86) |  | 11 |
| 5295497897 | Paul Revere | Warned the militia that the British were coming along with William Dawes at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. (p. 86) |  | 12 |
| 5295497898 | William Dawes | Warned the militia that the British were coming along with Paul Revere at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. (p. 86) |  | 13 |
| 5295497899 | Minutemen | The colonial militia. (p. 86) |  | 14 |
| 5295497900 | Battle of Bunker Hill | On June 17, 1775 a colonial militia lost this battle to British on the outskirts of Boston. However, the British suffered heavy casualties in this first true battle of the war. (p. 87) |  | 15 |
| 5295497901 | Second Continental Congress | In May 1775 representatives met in Philadelphia. They adopted the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms. In July 1775 they sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III. (p. 87) |  | 16 |
| 5295497902 | Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms | A letter to the world explaining why the colonies were rebelling and that it was necessary. | 17 | |
| 5295497903 | Olive Branch Petition | In July 1775 the Second Continental Congress tried a last effort for peace. Colonists pledged their loyalty and asked the king to go to Parliament to secure peace and protect their colonial rights. (p. 87) |  | 18 |
| 5295497904 | Common Sense | In January 1776 Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet that argued in clear and forceful language that the colonies should break with Britain. (p. 88) |  | 19 |
| 5295497905 | Prohibitory Act (1775) | In August 1775 King George III declared the colonies were in rebellion. (p. 87) |  | 20 |
| 5295497906 | Declaration of Independence | This declaration, written by Thomas Jefferson, declared independence and expressed the basic principles of the revolution. It was ratified on July 4th 1776. (p. 88) |  | 21 |
| 5295497907 | Thomas Jefferson | Writer of the Declaration of Independence |  | 22 |
| 5295497908 | Patriots | Most of these soldiers came from New England or Virginia and wanted freedom for the colonies. (p. 88) |  | 23 |
| 5295497909 | Tories | The pro-British Loyalists, the majority of this group tended to be wealthy and conservative and many were clergy and government officials. (p. 89) |  | 24 |
| 5295497910 | Valley Forge | Washington's troops spent the harsh winter of 1777-1778 here after losing Philadelphia to the British. (p. 89) |  | 25 |
| 5295497911 | Continentals | Paper money issued by Congress which was almost worthless due to inflation | 26 | |
| 5295497912 | Battle of Saratoga | In October 1777 General John Burgoyne's British forces were defeated by American Generals Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnolds army. This was a turning point of the war because it led to the French joining the war against Great Britain. (p. 90) |  | 27 |
| 5295497913 | George Rogers Clark | In 1778-1789 he lad the capture of British forts in the Illinois country. (p. 90) | 28 | |
| 5295497914 | absolute monarch | Although France had this kind of government; King Louis decided to help the colonies succeed in their rebellion in order to weaken the British. |  | 29 |
| 5295497915 | Battle of Yorktown | In 1781 the last battle of the Revolutionary War was fought. (p. 90) |  | 30 |
| 5295497916 | Treaty of Paris | In 1783 this treaty stated that: 1. Britain would recognize the existence of the US. 2. The Mississippi River would be the western border of the US. 3. Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada. 4. Americans would pay debts owed to British merchants and honor Loyalist claims for property confiscated during the war. (p. 91) |  | 31 |
| 5295497917 | Articles of Confederation | Adopted by Congress in 1777, it created a central government with limited powers, and it was replaced by the Constitution in 1788. (p. 91) |  | 32 |
| 5295497918 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | Created the Northwest Territory (area north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania), established conditions for creating new states. Granted limited self-government and prohibited slavery in the region. (p. 93) | 33 | |
| 5295497919 | Shay's Rebellion | Daniel Shays led other farmers in this uprising against high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money. (p. 93) |  | 34 |
| 5295497920 | Land Ordinance of 1785 | A policy that established surveying and selling of western lands. Part of the Articles of Confederation. (p. 93) |  | 35 |
| 5295497921 | Unicameral Legislature | A legislature which consists of one chamber or house. | 36 | |
| 5295497922 | Mary McCauley | Also know as Molly Pitcher, she carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat. (p. 94) |  | 37 |
| 5295497923 | Abigail Adams | Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront. She urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government he was helping to create. (p. 94) |  | 38 |
| 5295497924 | Deborah Sampson | At the age of 21, she dressed up as a man in order to fight in the war. (p. 94) |  | 39 |
