The American Pageant Chapter 8 Flashcards

Chapter 8 of the American Pageant for AP US History

1683642329	Second Continental Congress	Group of delegates who met in Philadelphia to continue addressing colonial grievances to the king and Parliament; drafted new appeals to the British people and king. Also adopted measures to raise money and create an army and navy	0
1683642330	George Washington	Chosen by fellow delegates to head the continental army	1
1683642331	Bunker Hill	Seized by colonists in June 1775 from which they menaced the enemy in Boston	2
1683642332	Olive Branch Petition	Professed American loyalty to the crown and begged the king to prevent further hostilities	3
1683642333	Hessians	American slang for the German troops under British command	4
1683642334	Falmouth, Maine	Burned by the British in October of 1775	5
1683642335	Richard Montgomery	General who pushed up the Lake Champlain route and captured Montreal, Canada	6
1683642336	Norfolk, Virginia	Burned by the British in January 1776	7
1683642337	Common Sense	Pamphlet written in 1776 by Thomas Paine	8
1683642338	Thomas Paine	Author of the influential Common Sense	9
1683642339	Republic	Type of society where power flows from the people themselves	10
1683642340	Richard Henry Lee	Moved that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."	11
1683642341	Thomas Jefferson	Virginian lawyer chosen to prepare a more formal statement of declaration	12
1683642342	Declaration of Independence	Formal declaration of independence from Britain, approved by Congress on July 4, 1776	13
1683642343	Loyalists	Colonials loyal to the king	14
1683642344	Patriots	American rebels	15
1683642345	Johnny Burgoyne	Actor-playwright-soldier who would push down the Lake Champlain route from Canada in order to capture the Hudson River valley from the colonists	16
1683642346	Benedict Arnold	Colonial general who repulsed British troops at Quebec (1775) and Lake Champlain (1776), turned traitor	17
1683642347	Saratoga	Battle in which Burgoyne was forced to surrender his entire command on October 17, 1777 to American general Horatio Gates	18
1683642348	Charleston	Colonial city captured that was crippling	19
1683642349	Treaty of Fort Stanwix	First treaty between the United States and an Indian nation	20
1683642350	George Rogers Clark	Floated down the Ohio River and captured the forts Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes	21
1683642351	Admiral de Grasse	Joined the Americans in an assault on Cornwallis at Yorktown	22
1683642352	John Jay	Percieved the French could not satisfy the conflicting ambitions of both Americans and Spaniards	23
1683642353	Treaty of Paris of 1783	The British formally recognized the independence of the United States, and granted generous boundaries of land	24