APUSH Revolutionary War Vocab Flashcards
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| 625935729 | Tories | British loyalists | |
| 625935730 | mercantilism | countries try to gain wealth through gold and exporting more than they import | |
| 625935731 | Hessians | German mercenaries hired by the British | |
| 625935732 | unalienable rights | rights that can not be taken away (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) | |
| 625935733 | Proclamation of 1763 | passed by Parliament that forbade colonists to move past the Appalachian Mountains and any already living out there had to move back | |
| 625935734 | Sugar Act | passed to pay for the debt created by the French and Indian War, created taxes on sugar, coffee, wine, and molasses for the colonists | |
| 625935735 | Stamp Act | A tax that Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents | |
| 625935736 | Declaratory Act | repealed the Sugar and Stamp Acts but stated that Parliament had total control over the colonies | |
| 626106713 | Daughters of Liberty | group that supported the boycott of British goods and encouraged homespun clothing | |
| 626106714 | Charles Cornwallis | general of the British forces during the Revolutionary War | |
| 626106715 | Nathan Hale | American spy hung by the British, famous for saying, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." | |
| 626106716 | William Howe | British commander at Bunker Hill | |
| 626106717 | John Locke | the Englishman that Thomas Jefferson got his ideas of natural rights from, "life, liberty, and property" | |
| 626106718 | John Burgoyne | British General that captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost at the Battle of Saratoga | |
| 626106719 | Sam Adams | member of the Sons of Liberty, organizer of the Boston Tea Party, and signer of the Declaration of the Independence | |
| 626106720 | Mercy Otis Warren | New England woman who wrote pro-patriot plays about the Revolutionary War | |
| 626106721 | Abigail Adams | wife of John Adams that urged him to remember the women when creating the country | |
| 626106722 | Benedict Arnold | skilled American commander that betrayed them for the British cause | |
| 626106723 | Thomas Gage | controlled Boston after the Boston Tea Party and was also the British general that ordered the weapons taken by the Sons of Liberty to be taken back and the leaders arrested |