| 1657397432 | French Protestants
10,000 killed on St. Bartholomew's Day
Denied religious refugee in New France | Huguenots | | 0 |
| 1657397433 | French founder of Detroit
Stopped English Settlement of the Ohio Valley | Antoine Cadillac | | 1 |
| 1657397434 | Enemy surrounds the town or building to cut off essential supplies hoping to lead to surrender of the opponent | siege | | 2 |
| 1657397435 | 1754
French and Indian War
Fought in America, Europe, West Indies, Philippines, Africa, and the ocean (seven seas war)
Fought for control of the Ohio River Valley | Seven Years War | | 3 |
| 1657397436 | Summoned in 1754
Ben Franklin was the leading spirit and he created the "Join or Die" political cartoon
first step to colonial unity
They wanted colonial home rule | Albany Congress | | 4 |
| 1657397437 | 1763
Natives wanted to drive England out of Ohio Country
England gave them blankets infected with smallpox to kill them | Pontiac's Rebellion | | 5 |
| 1657397438 | 1763
Prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachians to prevent problems with the natives, not to oppress the colonists | Proclamation of 1763 | | 6 |
| 1657397439 | trained soldiers | regulars | | 7 |
| 1657397440 | Ambush, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit and run, mobility
Untrained armies or groups of people used it to fight larger armies | Guerrilla Warfare | | 8 |
| 1657397441 | ruler with absolute power | Autocratic | | 9 |
| 1657397442 | British fleet
luck
wasted time fighting in England | How were the British and their American colonial subjects able to win the contest with the French for control of North America? | | 10 |
| 1657397443 | French allied with Indians
Americans weren't closely allied with any Indians
Americans were not as unified | How did French relations with the Native Americans compare with those of Britian and its American colonists in the French and Indians War? | | 11 |
| 1657397444 | New Spirit of Independence
debt in Britain led to the taxes, angering colonies | How did the development and final outcome of the imperial struggle affect relations between the colonists and Britain and alter relations among the colonists themselves? | | 12 |
| 1657397445 | 7 years war led to pride and independence in the colonies as well as gained us more land | How did events in France, England, and elsewhere in Europe affect the history of North America in this period? | | 13 |
| 1657397446 | late start on colonization
not many french people wanted to leave france, and those who did were forbidden (hugenots)
not as great of resources in the area they settled | Compare France's colonizing efforts in the New World with Spain's and England's colonies. What factors might explain France's relatively weak impact on the New World compared with that of England's and Spain's? | | 14 |
| 1674006503 | Wealth is power
more exports than imports
colonists existed to further the mother county | Mercantilism | | 15 |
| 1674006504 | Only allowed trade between the colonists and England
Loosely enforced at first, than increasingly stricter | Navigation Laws | | 16 |
| 1674006505 | Smuggler
very important to revolution by storing gunpowder and weapons | John Hancock | | 17 |
| 1674006506 | taxes on imports so they will buy their own goods
angered some if the imported goods were better/cheaper than their own goods | protective tariffs | | 18 |
| 1674006507 | 1765
food and housing for British troops | Quartering Act | | 19 |
| 1674006508 | 1765
Stamping paper & affixing of stamps = proof of tax payments | Stamp Act | | 20 |
| 1674006509 | Generic search warrant
they were searching for illegal goods, smuggled goods
never expired
reason for fourth amendment today (no unnecessary search/seizure) | Writ of Assistance | | 21 |
| 1674006510 | Parliament represented all British subjects (including the British colonies) even those who never voted | Virtual Representation | | 22 |
| 1674006511 | enforced non-importation agreements (refusal to buy British goods)
tar and feather violators
ransack houses, steal money, and make effigies unpopular officials | Sons of Liberty | | 23 |
| 1674006512 | 1766
Englan had the right to tax the colonies
put in to place after the repeal of the stamp act | Declaratory Act | | 24 |
| 1674006513 | King of England
Statue built in honor of him in New York was melted down to make bullets for the war
Power hungry; bad king = corruption in the government
passed Declaratory Act, repealed Stamp Act | King George III | | 25 |
| 1674006514 | 1770
60 colonists provoked English soldiers who then fired upon them wounding and killing 11
only two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter, others released with brands on their hands | Boston Massacre | | 26 |
| 1674006515 | master propagandist
engineer of revolution
from Boston
believed in colonial rights
created Committees of Correspondence "trained mobs" in each colony | Samuel Adams | | 27 |
| 1674006516 | organized by Sam Adams
spread the spirit of resistance
exchange of ideas through the colonies
united action | Committees of Correspondence | | 28 |
| 1674006517 | "To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men." | Edmund Burke | | 29 |
| 1674006518 | 1774
punished Massachusetts by closing Boston harbor
restricted other colonies rights | Intolerable Acts | | 30 |
| 1674006519 | 1774
met in Philidelphia
12 out of 13 colonies (excluding Georgia)
met to readdress colonial grievances and create a declaration of rights
The Association - document telling colonists to boycott British goods | First Continental Congress | | 31 |
| 1674006520 | Patriot of the revolution
large part of the first continental congress | John Adams | | 32 |
| 1674006521 | German organizational genius
trained American colonists to be soldiers | Baron Von Steuban | | 33 |
| 1674006522 | a person of black and white ancestry | Mulatto | | 34 |
| 1674006523 | fall in value of purchasing values of money by printing more money than they actually have | Inflation | | 35 |
| 1674006524 | mention of many things at one time | enumerated | | 36 |
| 1674006525 | type pf government
member of the republican party | republican | | 37 |
| 1674006526 | supreme ruler - monarch | sovereign | | 38 |
| 1674006527 | war and violence are unjustifiable | pacifist | | 39 |
| 1674006528 | Advantages: Most powerful military, better trained troops, developed government, wealthy, some colonists were still loyal to Britain (15-20%), paid the British military
Disadvantages: Far away, in debt, America had a just cause, geographical vastness of America, British had to hire German soldiers | List advantages and disadvantages of the British. | | 40 |
| 1674006529 | Advantages: Outstanding leadership, fighting defensively, self sustaining, moral advantage, alliance with the french, parliament had American sympathizers
Disadvantages: minimal military training, poor clothing/unmatched, lacked in unity, British were the most powerful army, difficulty raising enough funds, 1/5 of Americans were loyal to the crown, half didn't want conflict at all, Indian tribes sided with Britian | List advantages and disadvantages of the colonists. | | 41 |
| 1674006530 | no, because the colonists and England had a strong commercial, military and cultural bond
it was surprising it happened, Americans were reluctant revolutionaries. | Was the American Revolution inevitable? | | 42 |
| 1674006531 | Britain could have ruled as slack as before, could have accepted American offers for peace, better leaders in England, america could have accepted the taxes and been reasonable about the fact that they caused the war | To what extent could either side have contributed to a peaceful resolution to their differences? | | 43 |
| 1674006532 | legal - petitioning Britain and asking for decrease in taxation, increase in representation, etc.
extra legal- tea party, tar and feathering, provoking British officers, anything that was over the top and extreme | Analyze the ways in which colonists used both legal and extralegal means of protesting. | | 44 |
| 1674110390 | We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government | Write the Declaration of Independence. | | 45 |
| 1692056086 | 1775
Colonists had the British surrounded at Boston and the colonists greatly outnumbered the British | Lexington and Concord | | 46 |
| 1692056087 | 1775
met in Philadelphia
all 13 colonies were present
no desire yet for independence, just wanted to continue the war in hopes the British would readdress the grievances.
came up with ways to raise money for a navy and the army
selected Washington to lead the army | Second Continental Congress | | 47 |
| 1692056088 | Virginia Planter
had a quality of leadership and immense strength in character
moral force
people trusted him
never commanded a large army before | George Washington | | 48 |
| 1692056089 | 1775
Profess loyalty to the king and beg for an end to the hostilities | Olive Branch Petition | | 49 |
| 1692056090 | 1776
stop inconsistent warfare, stop pretending to be loyal, just fight the war
Britain was to small to control the larger colonies in America
Republic government-representatives should get power from the people | Common Sense/Thomas Paine | | 50 |
| 1692056091 | Virgina lawyer
chosen to draft the declaration of independence
he was a great writer | Thomas Jefferson | | 51 |
| 1692056092 | 1776
written by thomas jefferson
natural rights of men, list of grievances to Britain
set the precedent for other declarations of independence in future history | Declaration of Independence | | 52 |
| 1692056093 | Loyal to Britain
went to war against the americans
British army really only controlled Loyalist areas during the war
generally anglican conservatives located in the southern states | Loyalists/Tory | | 53 |
| 1692056094 | 1776
Washington crossed the delaware river capturing unprepared Hessians and British troops | Trenton | | 54 |
| 1692056095 | British general wanted to control the hudson river to separate New England from the other colonies
Burgoyne's troops would float down lake champlain and the hudson river to meet general howe at albany
Howe attacked Philidelphia hoping to create an opening for Burgoyne's troops but did not succeed
after a rough winter at Burgoynes troops battled at saratoga but were forced to surrender by the Americans | John Burgoyne | | 55 |
| 1692056096 | 1777
Americans force General Burgoyne to surrender
most important battle because it gave the french hope in the Americans and they decided to join us in the war against the British, we might not have won without the French | Saratoga | | 56 |
| 1692056097 | country best served by keeping the affairs of another at a distance | Isolationist | | 57 |
| 1692056098 | 1781
General Cornwallis was waiting for supplies but was trapped by the colonists and the french and was forced to surrender
final major battle of the war although fighting continued for a year after | Yorktown | | 58 |
| 1692056099 | Ben Franklin, John Jay and John Adams would meet in Paris to negotiate the peace treaty
scared to be back stabbed by France, America made a quick deal with London which gave americans their much wanted independence and their vast majority of land | Treaty of Paris of 1783 | | 59 |
| 1692056100 | professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army | Mercenary | | 60 |
| 1692056101 | messenger/representative | Envoy | | 61 |
| 1692056102 | collection of weapons/military equipment | Arsenal | | 62 |
| 1692056103 | ... | Graft | | 63 |
| 1692056104 | ... | knavery | | 64 |
| 1692056105 | The British lost much more than just their colonies, they lost the countless resources and trade with the colonists, they lost some money from what they funneled into the colonies and the war
the colonists didn't really gain anything besides independence and some more land, the government was slightly different but they basically lived life the way they were before the start of the revolutionary war, which is what they wanted in the first place | It is often argued that the British "lost the Revolutionary War more than the Americans "won" it". Explain. | | 65 |
| 1692056106 | ... | Why was Paine's writing so radical and why was this radical message so warmly received by many colonies? | | 66 |
| 1692056107 | The surrender of General Burgoyne created hope in the Frenches eyes that the Americans could win and decided to assist us through the rest of the war | What was the significance of the Battle at Saratoga? | | 67 |
| 1692056108 | ... | Who were the greatest generals of the war and why? | | 68 |
| 1692056109 | The French aided the colonists by sending troops, and their navy
the french also loaned us a large sum of money, and they gave us weapons and ammo
the french sent us their generals and turned our army into a better army
the french were mainly motivated by revenge and they were scared Britian may try to take the west indies from them | In what ways did the French aid the colonists and what motivated their actions? | | 69 |
| 1692056110 | ... | What was radical and new in the Declaration of Independence, and what was old and traditional? What did statements like "all men are created equal" mean in their historical context and what did they come to mean later? | | 70 |