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| The Plains of Abraham. de Montcalm is leader of the British, Wolfe is leader of the French | ||
| The Battle of Quebec in 1759 | ||
| George Washington | ||
| James Otis. He was defeated but he used British law against British law, showing that we could fight | ||
| It came out of nowhere | ||
| we were under salutary neglect and then Britain stepped up their game. We were like "What is this shit?" And they were like "Just follow it." And we said "Yeah, no thanks. We'll cheat our way around it. I mean this is America." | ||
| Prime Minister Greenville | ||
| It took place immediately after the French-Indian war. It allowed the soldiers to stay in our homes. No one ever did, so it was no big deal. It wasn't until the Quartering Act that things got serious. | ||
| Ben Franklin and Edmund Burke, they weren't allowed to say anything so we didn't really have representation. | ||
| It wouldn't let us pay in or mint any paper money, colonies had to use coins | ||
| Samuel Adams, after the Stamp Act | ||
| Tar and feather people who stuck with Loyolists | ||
| To put the colonists in their place, colonists ignored it | ||
| The changes in Britain | ||
| New ideas about the nature of society, citizens, and government. | ||
| Republicanism (not the political party) and the Whig belief | ||
| A just society in which all citizens willing give up their selfish needs for the common good, citizenry is the government's capacity for selfishness, efficiency and courage, and an appetite for civic involvement, and by nature, republicanism is against the hierarchy and kings and such | ||
| A disagreement about flinging random ideas about our colonies, feared the threat to liberty posed by the arbitrary power of the monarch and his minsters relative to elected representatives in parliament | ||
| Republicanism, Whig beliefs, distance between mother country, all the obnoxious Acts, emerging sense of American political identity | ||
| They are mother country, we are not | ||
| The belief in profitable trade, economic system uniting us for them, so much money was made for British empire. | ||
| British ignores us because we give them money | ||
| all commerce flowing to and from the colonies had to be transported by British ships, all goods were sent to Britain first to be taxed, were not really imposed until 1763 because of salutary neglect | ||
| 1754-1763. British and Colonies vs French and Indian, was a power and trade struggle | ||
| French came to America to spread Catholicism, used the Mississippi to trade and convert Indians, most Indians were pro-French | ||
| War was fought for control of North America, beat the French in the Battle of Quebec | ||
| ended the French and Indian War, a harsh blow to the Iroquois, Creeks and other tribes removed the Spanish from Florida and the French from Canada | ||
| Colonists are forbidden to cross this line (Appalachian Mountains) even though Britain has land all the way to the Mississippi | ||
| Didn't bother us because it wasn't enforced until after the French and Indian War, smuggled stuff instead | ||
| On the side of the British but they didn't like everything the British did | ||
| Ignored it, didn't care | ||
| Bitter protests, "No taxation without representation" | ||
| Angry, especially the housewives, New York refuses | ||
| Formed Stamp Act Congress - demands that Parliament repeal the Stamp Act, and the Sons of Liberty were formed | ||
| We ignored it | ||
| Colonists boycotted British goods, demonstrations. this is when things get heated. | ||
| Patriotic groups that played a big role in fighting against the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements. | ||
| local committees established across Massachusetts and then throughout the thirteen colonies. They maintained colonial opposition to British policies through the exchange of letters. | ||
| a military force made up of citizens in substitution of a regular army in times of emergency or rebellion. | ||
| treaty between Spain, France, and Britain ended the French and Indian/Seven Years war, French was completely thrown off North American | ||
| Convention of the delegates from twelve of the colonies that gathered in Philadelphia to respond to the Intolerable Acts. They establish Associations, which called for total boycott of British goods. | ||
| Representative body of delegates from all thirteen colonies. This congress drafted the Declaration of Independence and managed the colonial war effort. | ||
| Peace treaty signed by Britain and the United States ending the Revolutionary War. The British formally recognized the US as an independent and gave the US all land east of the Mississippi in exchange for the US promising to restore all Loyalist property and repay debts to British creditors. | ||
| First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederations of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted power to regulate commerce or collect taxes. They were replaced by a better Constitution later on. | ||
| Provided for the sale of land in the Old Northwest and earmarked the proceeds toward repaying the national debt. | ||
| Created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. | ||
| Convention held in Philadelphia and ran by George Washington. This convention produced the US Constitution. | ||
| Lead the British to victory in the Battle of Quebec. He was killed in this battle. | ||
| Lead the French in the Battle of Quebec. He was defeated and killed. | ||
| British leader during the Seven Year's War. He decided to attack the French West Indies and the Quebec-Montreal area. He also appointed new generals instead of the old-fashioned generals. | ||
| A British man who tried to warn the colonies what would happen if they revolted. He wanted to keep peace. He was a British man who represented the colonists in Parliament. | ||
| was a political leader of the American Revolution. He started the Sons of Liberty. He was the leader of the Boston Tea Party, attended the first Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served in the Congress of our free nation. | ||
| One of our four founding fathers. He played a huge role in the American Revolution. He represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress and helped write the Declaration of Independence. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris (1783) and was the second president of the United States. | ||
| Wife of John Adams who supported the revolution. She saw it as an opportunity to change the status of women. She was a leader in the women's rights movement. | ||
| Began his service to the US as a general in the Seven Years War. He was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to lead the colonies in the Revolutionary War. He won the war for America, was our first president, and presided over the Constitutional Convention, making him one of the founders of our Constitution. | ||
| a French man who served as a general for the US in the Revolutionary War. He also gave money out of his own pocket to help the colonies because he loved liberty and freedom. | ||
| Represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia during the war. He was the writer of the Declaration of Independence and was the third president of the US. | ||
| Represented us in Parliament but could not speak. Delegated the Second Constitutional Congress and helped write the Declaration of Independence. He was named as the first postmaster of the US. He invented many things, including electricity. | ||
| British leader who passed the Stamp Tax and the Sugar Act on the American colonies. | ||
| Acts passed by parliament to tax the colonies on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and most importantly, tea. The tax on tea eventually led to the Boston Tea Party. | ||
| Prime minister of King George III, he convinced parliament to recall all of the Townshend Acts except for the tax on tea. | ||
| Led the Americans to victory at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He eventually gave information to the British army and became the most famous traitor of the US. | ||
| the king of England during the Revolutionary War. He lost the thirteen colonies. | ||
| Called for independence at the Second Constitutional Congress. He signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress for a short time. | ||
| Put a tax on all sugar imports such as molasses, first law adding a tax to goods for America | ||
| required certain colonies to provide food and shelter fot British troops | ||
| required all documents and pieces of paper to have a British stamp on it that shows they payed the tax | ||
| That Britain had absolute power over its colonies because colonists were virtually represented in Parliament. | ||
| say that the British ships can come, but we're not going to unload it, united the American people for the first time in common action | ||
| the Enlightenment | ||
| part of the Enlightenment. he said that humans should follow natural law, and that a social contract should be made between a government and its people, allowing them to balance each other out. | ||
| That if a government passes bad laws, the people have the right to overthrow that laws or the government. | ||
| a fight caused by a few colonists who were taunting the British soldiers. The soldiers finally fired on 5 colonists. this was way overdramatized. | ||
| Paul Revere, propaganda. | ||
| He represents the British soldiers part of the Massacre as their lawyer in British courts. He know the truth and saves them in the end. | ||
| Tea, and it later becomes known as the Tea Act, the Boston Tea Party | ||
| an act of rebellion by the colonists. They dress up as Indians and dumb all the British tea into Boston Harbor. | ||
| wants all their money back from the lost tea | ||
| we are ready and want independence. | ||
| laws passed by Britain as a punishment for Boston because of the Tea Party. They established martial law, took away many rights including banning town meetings, forced the colonists to house soldiers, could arrest any Son of Liberty, bans the Committee of Correspondance in Boston. | ||
| set 4,000 soldiers to enforce the law. | ||
| A warning to the other twelve colonies- you rebel, and this will happen to you. | ||
| we form the first continental congress, other colonies send Boston goods and mail illegally. | ||
| They act as spies. Since the are housing soldiers, seeing soldiers on the street, in their markets, and everywhere, they get the chance to overhear them talk. | ||
| Because if you got caught, you would be arrested, and sent to England for your trial. England has no juries and has a guilty until proven innocent rule. | ||
| allows all of Quebec to have self government and representation in Parliament just to make us mad. It allowed Quebec to move into the frontier. | ||
| we are pissed, we rally together and send it petitions. | ||
| document signed by King John that stated Parliament had more power than the king. This was passed because King John sucked as a king. | ||
| In Canada and west of the Mississippi | ||
| Along the coastline, the East coast | ||
| To spread Catholicism and to trade | ||
| For religious freedom and money | ||
| The Treaty of Paris 1763 | ||
| All territories in North America East of the Mississippi. | ||
| Haiti because it is the wealthiest. | ||
| Daniel Boone and his followers | ||
| He finds the Cumberland gap | ||
| In Missouri | ||
| soldiers on foot | ||
| Battles only take place in open fields and in good weather, fought in straight lines, people could watch, and the British wore red coats. | ||
| Lobster backs. | ||
| England, France and Spain | ||
| Nine | ||
| Four | ||
| French Protestant dissenters, were granted limited toleration under the Edict of nantes, After Louis XIV outlawed Protestantism in 1685 many Huguenots fled to North America | ||
| Over 10,000 Huguenots were butchered | ||
| granted limited toleration to French Protestants, religious wars ceased, France became extremely powerful under King Louis XIV | ||
| Around the St. Lawrence River, leading figure was Samuel de Champlain, allied with the Huron Indian tribes | ||
| "Runners of the Woods," French fur trappers who capture beavers for their fur | ||
| recruited Indians into the fur business | ||
| Indians recruited were decimated by the white man's disesases, debauched by his alcohol, killing beaver violated Indian's beliefs, wreaked traditional Indian ways of life | ||
| French Catholic missionaries, mostly the Jesuits | ||
| Antoine Cadillac | ||
| Robert de La Salle | ||
| King WIlliam's War (1689-1697) and Queen Anne's War (1702-1713). British against French, each side recruited whatever Indian allies they could | ||
| showed how badly France and its Spanish ally had been beaten-- Britain was rewarded with French populated Acadia, Newfoundland, and the Hundson Bay | ||
| Salutary Neglect | ||
| Broke out in 1739 between the British and Spaniards, confined to the Caribbean Sea and buffer colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe fought for the British, merged into a large scale War known as King George's War | ||
| France allied itself with Spain, British capture Louisbourg but it was handed back to the French in 1748 with the peace treaty, New Englanders were outraged at this | ||
| "the Great Commoner", "Organizer of Victory," splendid orator who believed passionately in his cause, country, and himself. Concentrated on the vitals of Canada-- Quebec. Picked James Wolfe to be leader for the takeover of Quebec | ||
| Took place on the plains of Abrahams, 1759, British was under James Wolfe, French was under Marquis de Montcalm, (both of them died) | ||
| Enormous distances, geographical barriers (rivers), conflicting religions, varied nationalities, differing types of colonial governments, boundary disputes | ||
| Ottawa chief Pontiac led several tribes, and French traders in a violent campaign to drive the British out of the Ohio Country, killed 2,000 soldiers and settlers | ||
| Commanders ordered blankets infected with small pox to be distributed among the Indians | ||
| To work out the Indian problems fairly and prevent another bloody uprising, not to oppress the colonists | ||
| Republicanism and Radical Whigs | ||
| Mercantilism | ||
| Furnish products needed in the mother country, refrain from making for export certain products, buy imported manufactured goods exclusively from Britain, not indulge in bothersome dreams of economic self-sufficiency/self-government | ||
| Used to try offenders for violating the various Navigation Acts passed by the crown after the French and Indian War, colonists argued that the courts encroached on their right as Englishmen since they lacked juries and placed the burden of proof on the accused, guilty until proven innocent | ||
| PM Grenville claimed that every member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even those Americans in Boston or Charleston who had never voted for a member of Parliament | ||
| brought together in NYC 27 distinguished delegates from nine colonies, after dignified debate the members drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act, it eventually worked | ||
| March 5th, 1770. Sixty townspeople began taunting and throwing snowballs at a squad of ten redcoats. The redcoats didnt think and opened fire and killed 11 citizens. Both sides were to blame, only two redcoats were found guilty of manslaughter | ||
| was a 20th century historian. He studied revolutions from across the world and found a pattern in them that was related to a fever. | ||
| The Anatomy of a Revolution | ||
| Symptoms, rising fever, crisis, recovery. | ||
| Navigation laws, all of the acts, Boston Massacre, post-war government building | ||
| in response to the intolerable acts. They for the Association and call for boycott of British goods. They also write the Olive Branch petition as a peace offering. | ||
| September 1774 and wanted to meet again in May 1775. | ||
| Screw you bitches, we're not giving you freedom. | ||
| Massachusetts has been on guard since the Boston Massacre. They have Paul Revere and William Dawes on watch in the Old Church tower. | ||
| If the British attack by land, one lantern goes up, of by sea, two lanterns. | ||
| Concord. | ||
| The minutemen. | ||
| April 18th, 1775 | ||
| Lexington, Massachusetts. | ||
| Britain is one of the best armies in the world. They are very obedient, fight in straight lines, only in good weather, red jackets. | ||
| April 19th, 1775 | ||
| They think that this is a total joke because the minutemen are so tiny, have sucky weapons, and no uniforms. | ||
| The Shot Heard 'Round the World, and no one knows who shot it. | ||
| the minutemen met the British on the green of Lexington. The shot heard round the world is fired, and the British fire and kill eight colonists. After this, the colonists retreat. | ||
| On a bridge on the way to Concord. We meet the British there and we start to shoot. The British are shocked of this informal battle and they retreat to Boston. | ||
| We start popping out from behind trees, rocks, really out of no where. We do whatever we can to fight and win. | ||
| As soon as the news of the first shot got around. | ||
| they wrote demands, sent complaints, formed the Continental Army (the Continentals). | ||
| George Washington. | ||
| Farmers, outdoorsmen, regular citizens, anyone we can get. | ||
| We drill and train them in guerilla warfare. | ||
| William Prescott (colonist), because their ammunition would not make it that far. | ||
| June 17th, 1775 | ||
| No. one third of the colonists disagree or are unhappy or don't care. | ||
| July 4th, 1776 | ||
| The British on us. | ||
| His dad tells Ben that Ben will fail as a revolutionary and that Britain will win. | ||
| As besties with Washington, George asks Arnold to go up to Quebec to get weapons from the British. He does, and brings back cannons. He was injured. | ||
| Henry Knox. | ||
| Thomas Paine, it stated that we all have basic rights that cannot be denied. | ||
| Because the colonists are pushing Britain out of Boston and other northern lands. | ||
| by helping the French in WWI. | ||
| Richard Henry Lee. | ||
| John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. | ||
| They would be tracked down and killed. | ||
| German mercenaries hired by the British to fight against us. | ||
| 1754-1763 | ||
| 1763 (also proclamation line) | ||
| 1775-1781 | ||
| July 4th, 1776 | ||
| 1783 | ||
| 1785 | ||
| 1781-1789 |
