APUSH American Revolution Review

American's Forbidden

1. No banks or printed money. 2. Could only pay with specie. 3. No manufacturing.

Loyalists

1/3 of colonists were loyalists; Conservatives, the rich, cultured, ethnic and religious minorities, frontiersman, African Americans, and members of the Anglican church.

Sugar Act

1764. Placed a restriction on sugar and molasses which could only be bought from British West Indies, but it was smuggled.

Quartering Act

1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Stamp Act

1765. Put a tax on all legal docs, newspapers, even playing cards which stamp had to be placed on. A widespread boycott of british goods unites the colonists more than they have ever been

Declaratory Act

1766- Mother country is in charge. "Bind you in all cases whatsoever"

Townsend Duties

1768- Taxed tea, glass, lead, paper and paint; enumerated list of products. The colonists boycott it and this is why Americans are coffee drinkers today. The New York Colony assembly said that they wouldnt enforce the Townsend duties so they were disbanded.

Tea Party

1773 Tea act tried to force Boston to buy cheap tea with small tax. Ships often were driven away across the continent. Annapolis burns a ship. Boston dumps 10000 dollars with of tea into the pay and now there is no going back, war is inevitable.

Quebec Acts

1774 1. Given ohio river valley and the ability to speak own language and practice their own religion. They did this to have an ally when revolution was inevitable.

Coercive Act

1774 1. Pays back tea. 2. Closes the ports of Boston. 3. Town meetings are outlawed. 4. Martial law is created because UK puts soldiers in Boston

1st Continental congress

1774. 12 colonies showed up. they agreed to petition the king once more. They realized to meet in one year. They all agreed to create a colonial militia. Lastly they boycotted all British goods.

Common Sense

1775. Paine writes to US farmers. He was to get soldiers such as the farmers as footsoldiers, He called the king a royal brute and said that people should have the power.

Saratoga

1777- Burgoyne surrendered, and this is the turning point as the French sent troops to aid the U.S

Sons of Liberty

A vigilante group that attacked those who complied with the stamp act, especially those who were the "stampers".

Admiralty Courts

Admiralty courts were courts not composed of peers but of British Admirals who assumed you were guilty, and you had little chance of getting proof 3000 miles away from home.

Olive Branch Petition

Begging England to take Colonists back.

Writs of Assistance

Blank search warrants that could be used at any time to search any person's home.

Lexington and Concord

British wanted the ammo from storage so that it did not fall in the colonials hands. They also wanted to capture John Hancock and Sam Adams. The British were ambushed twice and called the colonists cowards.

African Americans in war

Colonists also guaranteed their freedom. The north emancipated slaves. In truth, most things don't change though. British even sometimes resold the slaves.

Proclamation of 1763

Cut off the colonist from settling past Appalachian mountains. Britain places this in order to keep skirmishes with Indians at bay, and keeps colonists enclosed. Angers colonist who thought land was owed to them.

Benedict Arnold

Defected to British army as he was not paid and feared for his family's well being.

John Locke

Duty to rebel if government is unjust. Also said that we had inalienable rights which included life liberty health and property.

Committees of Correspondance

Exchanged letters betwixt the revolutionary ring leaders. These letters were smuggled carefully so that all would be on the same page.

Mercantilism

Export more than you import. Money = power, because of the fixed amount of money in the world. Colonies purpose were to feed the mother country more money.

Boston Massacre

Five die as the soldiers protect the custom house. John Adams defends the soldiers by saying the truth; they were provoked. 1770

Financing the War

France, Spain, and Dutch funded the money. They tried to mint continentals, which were worthless.

Gage

General who led attacks on Lexington and Breed's hill, dishonorably discharged for his decisions there.

Frontier Fighting

George Rogers Clark takes the British Ohio River Valley forts which allows the colonists to have claims to the land all the way to the mississippi river.

Declaration of Independance

Had a preamble. Had 27 grievances against the king. The idea of no slavery was edited out of it.

Howe

Had the pinscer movement which wasn't fulfilled by him.

Valley Forge

Hard winter, with colonial army left to die; 3000 did die. von Steuben was a prussian who made them men. Also Paine's the crisis inspired them and reminded them what they wre fighting for.

George the 3rd's Personality

He was dimwitted, erratic and rash. He placed other dimwitted people around him to feel better about himself. He didn't care about the colonies.

Salutary Neglect

Idea that the colonies benefited by being left alone, without too much British interference

Molasses Act

In 1733. All molasses has to come from British West Indies.

Lafayette/Yorktwon

Lafayette was a french field commander who helped Washington, and Washington nearly adopted him. Yorktown was were they surrended, Cornwallis was trapped by armies and French Navy.

Native Americas

Most fought for UK but there division would be bad for them eventually.

Stamp Act Congress

Nine colonies should up. Otis says no taxation without representation is tyranny. They send a wave of petitions to the king, but eventually the stamp act is repealed due to pleas from British merchants.

Navigation Acts

Only allowed British or Colonial ships in America's ports. Colonists could only trade with British.

Breed's hill

Outside Boston, devastating losses for British.

Privy Council

Reviewed U.S laws passed and wasn't a real threat but still denied the printing of paper money.

Gaspee Incident

Rhode Islanders burned the British ship stuck on the sand. They were sons of liberty who were caught red handed, but were "Not guilty" at a trial. 1772

Richard Henry Lee

Said they should be an independant state.

Journal of The Times

Sam Adams creates this journal that is used as propaganda to rile up the colonists against the British.

Women in the revolution

They took many roles for men on in addition to the "traditional" roles.

Dominion Theory

They were loyal to the king, but not to parliament.

British war strategy

Tried to capture washington. Captured Cities. Went south(which went poorly for them).

Actual representation vs. Virtual Representation

Virtual representation is where people had no say in government but were supposed to be represented by their members in Parliament who were supposed to represent the welfare for all their subjects. Actual is having a direct say in gov, being represented fairly.

Treaty of Paris

Went behind France's back. Neither side would keep their promises. John Jay, Ben Franklin, and John Adams were the negotiators. The British said they'd recognize the US as a nation and leave the colonies. the US said they'd give loyalists back their property and pay ofor the tea

George Mason

Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights which is inspiration for declaration of independance.

Civil war

one third were loyal, one third apathetic, and one third were rebellious.