American history chapter 4
Loyalist
Colonists who supported Britain during the war
Boston massacre
Conflict in which occupying British soldiers killed five protesting colonists
Came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons
Fighting began in Lexington and concord when British troops
Marquis de Lafayette
French aristocrat who provided military expertise to the continental army
Militia
Group including farmers who became soldiers to fight
Committees of correspondence
Groups that formed after the Boston massacre to promote colonial unity
Mercenaries
Hired soldiers who fought for pay
Other republican groups fought to overthrow aristocratic governments
In what way did the American Revolution affect other countries
Boston tea party
Incident in which colonists destroyed cargo to protest British trade policies
Valley forge
Location of washington's winter encampment in 1777 and 1778
First continental congress
Meeting at which colonial delegates formed plans to boycott all British goods
Saratoga
Site of major patriot victory in upstate New York
Distracted British troops
Spanish attacks on the British forts in the south
Stamp act
Tax imprinted materials imposed on American colonists by parliament
Explain why colonists were angry with British rule
The Declaration of Independence was written to
Natural rights
The declaration claims people have ______ that cannot be taken away
Saratoga
The patriots began to hope they could win the war after the battle of ____
Ceded far more territory to the United States than the colonies had won in the war
The treaty of Paris
Rejecting class structure and privilege
Thomas Paine's Common Sense inspired colonists by
Patrick Henry
Virginia representative who argued for more radical opposition to parliament
Manumission
Voluntarily freeing your slaves
Loyalists believed Patriots
Were breaking the law
Treaty of paris
What ended the American Revolution
Declaration
What proclaimed that the colonies were free from British rule
Outraged colonists protested the new taxes
What was one effect of new British taxes on colonists
Battle of Yorktown
When did the patriots receive help from the French at
Kings mountain
Where did the patriots win a brutal battle
The British army had more weapons and ships than the continental army
Which of the following advantages was held by the British at the beginning of the war?
The British did not support loyalist militias adequately
Which of the following contributed to the British defeat in the south
Sons of Liberty
Which of the following groups led violent protests against British taxation on the colonies
More colonists became politically active
Which of the following resulted from the first continental congress
George Washington
Who commanded the new continental army
Thomas Jefferson
Who drafted the Declaration of Independence
The British lost twice as many troops as did the patriots
Why was the battle of bunker hill considered a patriot victory
William Howe
British commander who led the battle of bunker hill
Native Americas and patriots
Battles on the frontier took place mostly between
Eliminated in the north
After the revolution, the practice of enslaving African Americans was
The right to representation
American colonists valued which british principle of government
Benjamin Franklin
American diplomat who negotiated alliance with France
Gained respect
As a result of the revolution, women in America