American Revolution
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- John Adams
- attorney who helped the Patriot cause; first vice president
- George III
- king on the throne of England during the revolution
- Congress
- one of the 3 branches of government; house of representatives and senate
- Thomas Jefferson
- Virginia delegate who wrote the Declaration of Independence
- John Hancock
- President of the Continental Congress; first to sign the declaration
- Nathan Hale
- hung as a spy; "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country:
- depression
- period when business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises
- Benedict Arnold
- traitor
- Judicial Branch
- the supreme court branch of the government
- Founding Fathers
- patriots who laid the groundwork for the US
- Intolerable Acts
- four laws imposed by the British to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party
- General Cornwallis
- the British general who defied and order and was trapped at Yorktown forcing his surrender; he called Washington an old fox
- Federalists
- supporters of our Constitution without a bill of rights
- execute
- to carry out
- Colonial Governor
- the person who directed the colony's affairs, enforced the laws
- Georgia delegates
- Lyman Hall, George Walton, Button Gwinnett-the signers of the Declaration
- Articles of Confederation
- the first attempt by America at a constitution
- James Ogelthorpe
- the founder of the colony of Georgia
- James Madison
- father of the constitution; leading federalist; author of the Bill of Rights
- Stamp Act
- the tax on legal documents
- New York
- first capital of the US
- Pocahontas
- native American said to have saved John Smith from death by her father
- Thomas Paine
- wrote "Common Sense"; "These are the times that try men's souls"
- Antifederalits
- the supporters of adding a bill of rights
- Hurons
- the tribe who allied with the French in the French and Indian War
- John Paul Jones
- "I have not begun to fight"; fought at sea for the patriots
- Battle of Yorktown
- the last battle of the revolution
- General de Grasse
- the Frenchman whose ship trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown
- Paul Revere
- silversmith whose sketch of the Boston Massacre was propaganda for the patriots; "The British are coming"
- First Continental Congress
- group of delegates who met in Philadelphia to debate the issue of independence
- Shays' Rebellion
- a protest by farmers against the Articles of Confederation
- Boston Tea Party
- a protest against taxation without representation by the Sons of Liberty
- unalienable
- natural rights that belong to everyone and cannot be taken away
- Maryland
- the first colony established for Catholics
- Daniel Boone
- explore west of the Appalachians; Kentucky
- Columbian Exhange
- the global exchange of goods and ideas between the Eastern & Western hemispheres that sparked exploration
- loyalist
- a colonist who supported the king
- Mason-Dixon Line
- the imaginary boundery line between the southern and middle colonies
- Marquis de Lafayette
- our French ally and friend of Washington
- George Washington
- "The volley fired by this young Virginian in the forests of America, has set the world in flames"; an old fox
- Louis XVI
- the French king who gave money and troops to help the patriots
- Separatists
- a sect of Puritans who totally seperated and sailed to American; Pilgrims
- Patrick Henry
- "If this be treason make the most of it"; "Give me liberty of give me death"; antifederalist
- Townshend Acts
- taxes on glass, paper, paint, tea
- Iroquois
- the tribe who allied with the British in the French and Indian War
- Benjamin Franklin
- considered our American Enlightened spirit
- John Smith
- he helped save Jamestown from starvation
- habeau corpus
- innocent until proven guilty
- mercantilism
- an economic theory that believe the colonies should benefit the mother country
- Yankee
- merchants from New England who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast
- Quartering Acts
- acts that forced colonists to house soldiers against their will
- minutemen
- volunteer soldiers who were ready to fight in a moments notice
- Jamestown
- colony in Virginia
- republic
- government led by elected representatives
- Concord
- the first shot of the revolution
- patriots
- colonists who favored change
- amend
- to change
- Treaty of Paris
- the treaty that ended the revolution
- Noah Webster
- proposed a national language to unify the country
- The lost colony
- Roanoke, the first English Colony in the Americas
- Executive Branch
- president, vice president, cabinet
- John Jay
- one of three who wrote "The Federalist Papers"
- Powhatan
- powerful chief in the area of Jamestown who agreed to supply corn to the Jamestown colony
- Mayflower Compact
- first document in the America for self-government
- Northwest Ordinance
- document that set up government in NW Territory and added 5 new states
- Sam Adams
- one of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party who dressed as a Mohawk Indian
- Puritans
- a group of Anglicans in England who wanted to purify their church of Catholic ways
- George Rogers Clark
- the patriot who seized British forts on the southwestern frontier
- Francis Marion
- the swamp fox who used guerilla tactics against the British
- Battle of Saratog
- this battle was a turning point in the war for the patriots; allies joined our cause after this victory
- lobsterbacks
- British redcoat soldiers
- Bunker Hill
- "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes"
- Ethan Allen
- led the Green Mt. boys who took the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga
- Montesquieu
- the Enlighenment writer who believed in seperation of powers
- July 4, 1776
- the day the Declaration was signed in Philadelphia