Chapter 4 US History
Pamphlets
Colonists opposed new British taxes by protesting violently and writing defiant
two-house legislature
Each colony's government mirrored the government of Britain since had a
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolution, recognized America as independent and set generous boundaries for the new Nation
colonial weapons
Fighting began in Lexington and Concord when British troops came to arrest colonial leaders and take
Continental Army
George Washington received command of this group at the Second Continental Congress.
mercenary
German soldier fighting for Britain
Thomas Paine
Influenced Thomas Jefferson heavily when he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Stamp Act
Law that taxed printed materials in the colonies
breaking the law.
Loyalists believed Patriots were
new taxes
One effect of new British taxes on colonists was that outraged colonists protested the
white settlers and Native Americans
One effect of the battles fought on the western frontier during the American Revolution was the deepening of the hostilities between
Fighting
One of the Patriots' greatest strengths was their persistence in
Slavery
Slavery in the South continue after the Revolution because the plantation economy depended on .
Lexington
The American Revolution began when shots were fired at
Patriots
The Battle of Bunker Hill was considered a Patriot victory because the British lost twice as many troops than the .
New Jersey
The Battle of Trenton was fought in the state of
Townshed acts
The Boston Massacre led Parliament to withdraw nearly all of the
Saratoga
The French made an open alliance with the United States following the Patriot victory at
Radical
The Loyalists believed that Patriots were too
Battle of Saratoga
The Patriots began to hope they could win the war after the
Colonies
The Sons of Liberty led violent protests against British taxation in the
Great Britan
The colonists modeled their government on the government of
South
The lack of British support of the Loyalist militias contributed to the defeat of British troops in the
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson drafted the
Second Continental Congress
Unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate with Britain's king to end Parliament's rule over the colonies.
Yorktown
With help from the French, the Revolutionary War ended with this battle
Battle of Trenton
famous battle where General Washington's Christmas crossing of the Delaware River helped him win
British
principle of government valued by the colonists was the right to pay no tax unless it was levied
Native Americans and Patriots.
Battles on the frontier took place mostly between the
William Howe
British General that misjudged the Patriots at Bunker Hill and lost many of his troops.
John Adams
A Massachusetts lawyer who noted the colonists' liberal use of a free press
Patriots
After British forces started losing battles in the South; neutral colonists reacted by supporting the
North
After the Revolution, the practice of enslaving African Americans was eliminated in the
Respect
As a result of the Revolution, women in America gained
Continental Army
At the beginning of the war the British army had more weapons and ships than the
