AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 5 The American Revolution and Confederation, 1774-1787
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| 7236713056 | Patrick Henry | Radical delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. Radical delegates were those demanding the greatest concessions from Great Britain. (p. 85) |  | 0 |
| 7236713057 | Samuel Adams | Radical delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He started Committees of Correspondence. (p. 85) |  | 1 |
| 7236713058 | John Adams | Radical delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He had acted as a lawyer for British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. (p. 85) |  | 2 |
| 7236713059 | John Dickinson | Moderate delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He wrote "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania". (p. 85) |  | 3 |
| 7236713060 | John Jay | Conservative delegate from New York to the Continental Congress, favored a mild statement of protest. (p. 85) |  | 4 |
| 7236713061 | 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) |  | 5 |
| 7236713066 | 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. In July of 1776 they ratified the Declaration of Independence. (p. 87) |  | 6 |
| 7236713067 | 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) |  | 7 |
| 7236713069 | Thomas Jefferson | In 1776, he was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. (p. 88) |  | 8 |
| 7236713070 | Declaration of Independence | This declaration, written by Thomas Jefferson, declared independence and expressed the basic principles of the American revolution. It was ratified on July 4, 1776. (p. 88) |  | 9 |
| 7236713071 | George Washington | Moderate delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. In 1775, at the Second Continental Congress he was appointed commander-in chief of a new colonial army and sent to Boston to lead the Massachusetts militia and volunteer units from other colonies. He later became the first president of the United States. (p. 88-89) |  | 10 |
| 7236713073 | 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) |  | 11 |
| 7236713076 | Lexington | On April 18, 1775 British soldiers in Boston marched to this town to seize colonial military supplies. This is where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired. (p. 86) |  | 12 |
| 7236713077 | Concord | After the British had marched to Lexington, they marched on to this town to destroy colonial military supplies. (p. 86) |  | 13 |
| 7236713078 | 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 Revolutionary War. (p. 87) |  | 14 |
| 7236713079 | 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) |  | 15 |
| 7236713081 | Battle of Yorktown | In 1781, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Supported by French naval and military forces, Washington's army forced the surrender of a large British army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis. (p. 90) |  | 16 |
| 7236713082 | Articles of Confederation | Adopted by Congress in 1777, it created a central government with limited powers. Its major weakness was a limited power to tax, leaving debts from the war unpaid. In 1788, it was was replaced by the Constitution. (p. 91) |  | 17 |
| 7236713083 | unicameral Legislature | The Articles of Confederation established a central government that consisted of just one body, a Congress. In this unicameral (one-house) legislature, each state was given one vote, with at least 9 of 13 votes required to pass important laws. (p. 92) |  | 18 |
| 7236713086 | Treaty of Paris | In 1783, this treaty between Britain and the United States brought an end to the Revolutionary War. It 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) |  | 19 |
| 7236713087 | Thomas Paine; 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) |  | 20 |
| 7236713088 | Patriots | Most of these soldiers came from New England or Virginia and wanted freedom for the colonies. (p. 88) |  | 21 |
| 7236713089 | Loyalists (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) |  | 22 |
| 7236713090 | Minutemen | The colonial militia. (p. 86) |  | 23 |
| 7236713091 | Continentals | Paper money issued by Congress which became almost worthless due to inflation. (p. 90) |  | 24 |
| 7236713092 | Abigail Adams | She was the 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) |  | 25 |
| 7236713094 | Valley Forge | Washington's troops spent the harsh winter of 1777-1778 here after losing Philadelphia to the British. (p. 89) |  | 26 |
| 7236713096 | Shay's Rebellion | Daniel Shays led other farmers in this uprising against high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money. The rebellion led many to believe that the nation needed a stronger central government, leading to the adoption of the Constitution. (p. 93) |  | 27 |
