US HISTORY CH 4 Flashcards

13338531989	Declaration of Independence	Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state.	0
13338555304	Haym Salomon	American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)	1
13338572305	Marquis de Lafayette	French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army.	2
13338590703	Francis Marion	South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution.	3
13338611091	Battle of Yorktown	the last major battle of the American Revolution	4
13338618321	Samuel Adams	American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence	5
13338652475	Mercy Otis Warren	female patriot who wrote poems to convince others to join the patriot cause	6
13338666064	Boston Tea Party	protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor	7
13338682839	Patriots	Colonists who wanted independence from Britain	8
13338692660	Second Continental Congress	Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775.	9
13338710064	Common Sense	A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation	10
13338730988	Boston Massacre	The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans	11
13338766853	John Paul Jones	American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight."	12
13338779481	James Armistead	African American Patriot who spied for the Americans during the American Revolution.	13
13338795379	Treaty of Paris 1783	This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River	14
13338822315	Battle of Trenton	On Christmas day at night, Washington's soldiers began crossing the Delaware River. The next morning, they surprise attacked the Hessians.	15
13338842560	Thomas Jefferson	Author of the Declaration of Independence	16
13338853581	Baron Friedrich von Steuben	a Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army	17
13338864564	George Rogers Clark	frontiersman who helped defend the western frontier	18
13338881559	Battle of Saratoga	American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution.	19
13338893135	Loyalists	Americans who supported the British	20
13338906406	Bernardo de Galvez	Spanish governor who aided the Americans during the Revolution	21
13338918315	Comte de Rochambeau	French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)	22
13338931513	First Continental Congress	Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence	23
13338956112	Redcoats	British soldiers	24
13338964830	Battle of Bunker Hill	In 1775, first major battle of the revolution	25
13338985922	Thomas Paine	Author of Common Sense	26
13339001528	Intolerable Acts	series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party	27
13339013549	Stamp Act of 1765	Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies	28
13339029880	Minutemen	citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice	29
13339042927	George Washington	1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)	30
13339053976	Tea Act of 1773	Gave the East India Company an unfair business advantage over colonial merchants.	31
13339080238	Committees of Correspondence	Organizations in each of the American colonies created to keep colonists aware of developments with the British	32
13339111381	Quartering Act	1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.	33