GACS lclab US History Fall Final Review - Unit 2 - Chapters 4 through 6.2
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| 50619648 | French and Indian War | War from 1755 to 1763 between France (with allied Indian nations) and Britain and it's colonists for control of Eastern North America. | |
| 50619649 | Treaty of Paris (1763) | Treaty that ended the French and Indian War and in which France gave up its land claims in North America to Britain (Canada) | |
| 50619650 | Battle of Quebec | longest siege; won by British; climactic battle of the French and Indian War | |
| 50619651 | John Adams | 2nd President of the US 1797-1801. worked to relieve increasing tensions with France; defended soldiers accused of murder in Boston Massacre; argued in favor of the Declaration of Independence before the 2nd Continental Congress | |
| 50619652 | Sam Adams | One of Founding Fathers of the United States; instrumental in garnering support of colonies for rebellion against Britian; founded committees of correspondenc, involved in protests against Stamp Act | |
| 50619653 | King George III | King of England during the American Revolution | |
| 50619654 | George Washington | (February 22, 1732[1][2][3] - December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States of America (1789-1797),[4] and led the Continental Army to victory over the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Was significant in starting French & Indian War; President of Constitutional Convention | |
| 50619655 | Marquis de Lafayette | French officer who assisted American forces in the War for Independence | |
| 50619656 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President of the US, 1801-1809; main author of the Declaration of Independence; a firm believer in the people and decentralized power; reduced the federal government; first Secretary of State; key leader of the Democratic-Republic Party | |
| 50619657 | John Locke | Considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. Was a key Enlightenment thinker; Jefferson used Locke's ideas to support U.S.' decision for independence in Declaration | |
| 50619658 | Benedict Arnold | traitor of american revolution | |
| 50619659 | Lord Cornwallis | best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American Revolutionary War. His 1781 defeat by a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown is generally considered the de-facto end of the war, as the bulk of British troops surrendered with Cornwallis. Source: Wikipedia | |
| 50619660 | James Madison | 4th President of US, 1809-1817; called the Father of the Consitution for his leadership at the Constitutional Convention | |
| 50619661 | Alexander Hamilton | the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention, was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and cowrote the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. Source: Wikipeda | |
| 50619662 | Patrick Henry | Member of the First Continental Congress; Warned of Revolutionary War. "Give me Liberty or give me Death"; major Anti-Federalist leader who refused to represent VA at the Constitutional Convention | |
| 50619663 | Battles of Lexington and Concord | First battles of the Revolutionary War on April 19th, 1775 | |
| 50619664 | Battle of Saratoga | Revoluntionary War battle in 1777 in New York, a turning point in the war | |
| 50619665 | Battle of Yorktown | Revolutionary War battle in 1781 in Virginia; resulted in one British arm's surrender | |
| 50619666 | Proclamation of 1763 | Order by the British king that closed the region west of the Appalachian Mountains to all settlements by colonists | |
| 50619667 | Stamp Act | 1765 law passed by the British Parliament that taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies; first direct taxation of colonist | |
| 50619668 | Townshend Acts | Import taxes on lead, paper, tea, paint and glass were collected at port. Revenues from the Townshend duties were used to support British troops, royal governors, and royal judges, taking the power of the purse away from the colonial assemblies. The Acts also created a customs commission and suspended the New York assembly for failing to comply with the act. | |
| 50619669 | Boston Massacre | Incident on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers in Boston killed five colonists | |
| 50619670 | Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773, colonists disguised as Indians boarded 3 East India Company ships in Boston and dumped all the tea into the harbor. They were protesting the Tea Act which allowed the East India Company's tea to be cheaper driving American tea merchant out of business | |
| 50619671 | Intolerable Acts | Also called the Coercive Acts, this series of punitive acts targeted Massachusetts. The Port Bill closed Boston harbor until Boston paid for the tea destroyed at the Boston Tea Party. Other acts nearly elimimated self government in Massachusetts. | |
| 50619672 | Declaration of Independence | 1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain. | |
| 50619673 | Treaty of Paris | 1783-Treaty that ended the French and Indian War and in which France gave up its land claims in North America to Britain | |
| 50619674 | Bill of Rights | First ten amendments to the Constitiution | |
| 50619675 | Shays' Rebellion | An uprising against taxes in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787; also helped result in calling of the Constitutional Convention | |
| 50619676 | Alien and Sedition Acts | Laws passed by Congress in 1798 that enabled the government to imprison or deport aliens and to prosecute critics of the government | |
| 50619677 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Resolutions passed in 1798 that attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as being unconstitutional | |
| 50619678 | The Federalist Papers | 85 essays or papers supporting the Constititution written by Federalists Hamilton, Madison and Nationalist John Jay. | |
| 50619679 | Northwest Ordinace of 1787 | Established a prcoess by which territories cuold become states; Forbids slavery north of the Ohio; encouraged development of the frontier through a new federal land policy; Americans were now able to buy land in small parcels on credit. | |
| 50619680 | "Common Sense" | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January 1776 which called for American Independence from Britain | |
| 50619681 | Whiskey Rebellion | Unrest in 1794 caused by opposition to a tax on whiskey |
