American Revolution Study guide
February 11, 2015
American Revolution Study Guide
1. 1754-1763
2. Fought between BRITAIN(ANGLO) AND
FRANCE, THE FRENCH AND INDIAN
WAR FOUGHT IN THE OHIO RIVER
VALLEY OVER RIVAL TERRITORIAL
RIGHTS AND TRADITIONAL
HOSTILITIES
3. England
4. THE FRENCH WERE DRIVEN OUT OF
CANADA in the TREATY OF PARIS 1763- AND
THEIR TERRITORIES WEST OF THE
APPALACHIAN MTS. BRITAIN GAINED LAND
TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER
5. - Proclamation of 1763,. Sugar Act,
Stamp Act and Tea Act, TAXATION
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
6. which prohibited settlement west of the
Appalachian Mts
7. A tax on a good or product
8. taxes on all paper documents, yes
9. TAXATION WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION
10. TAXATION WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION
11. No
12. British troops fired on anti-British
demonstrators when fights broke out over
scarce jobs between poorly paid
BRITISH soldiers and colonists
13. A tax on Tea
14. (the British East India Co. decided to sell
tea cheap to the colonists-
15. cutting merchants out of trade
16. December 16-colonists (Sons of Liberty)
dressed as Native Americans and boarded
ships-dumping 18,000 pounds of tea in the
Boston Harbor
Lead by Samuel Adams
• 17. THE INTOLERABLE ACTS, Shut down the
Boston Harbor and
• 2)Boston under martial law.
• 3)Quartering Act - British soldiers had to be
housed in private homes
18. FIRST EXPRESSION OF COLONIAL
UNITY
19. DREW UP A DECLARATION OF
COLONIAL RIGHTS TO SEND TO KINGGIII FOR PEACE
20. Minutemen” (warned by the Sons of
Liberty that the British were coming could be
ready in a minute
21. APRIL 19,1775, Lexington and Concord, MA
22. IMPORTANCE SHOWED THE
COLONISTS WERE A FORCE TO BE
RECKONED WITH
• 23. SECOND CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS CALLED AND AN OLIVE
BRANCH PETITION SENT TO GIII
• THIS WAS REJECTED
24. Whenever government becomes a threat
to the people’s natural rights, it breaks the
social contract, and the people have the
right to alter or overthrow it, ” to form a
government to protect their rights.
25. Thomas Paine, challenged the rule of the
American colonies by the King of EnglandGEORGE III, G III was the cause of our
problems.
26. Thomas Jefferson
27. John Locke and Thomas Paine
28. DECLARING SEPARATION FROM
ENGLAND,LOCKE’S INFLUENCE,
PAINE’S INFLUENCE, DECLARING
INDEPENDENCE-UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
29. July 4th, 1776
30. increased Political, Social, and
Economic participation in the American
Experience over time
31. Washington’s cautiousness and leadership kept
his army together despite war starting out badly
32. Patriots-Complete independence from Britain
and would fight, Loyalists-Remaining loyal to Britain
because of cultural and economic ties, neutralsCOLONISTS WHO TRIED TO STAY AS
UNINVOLVED AS POSSIBLE
33. SPEECH STIRRED AMERICANS
AGAINST THE BRITISH BECAUSE
OF THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST US.
34. Battle of Saratoga
35. It was the turning point of the war
36. Benjamin Franklin, Saratoga victory
assured the French of our determination.
37. a formally concluded and ratified agreement
between countries.
38. a union or association formed for mutual
benefit, especially between countries or
organizations.
39. Washington’s cautiousness and
leadership kept his army together
40. The British surrenders to the Colonists
and the French
41Americans benefited from the presence of the
French army and navy at the Battle of Yorktown,
which ended the war with an American victory.
42. Cornwallis
43.. GUERILLA WARFARE FROM INDIANS
• STRONG BELIEF IN CAUSE-PASSION
• STRONG LEADERS WOULD EMERGE
• KNOWLEDGE OF TERRAIN
44. No
45. Treaty of Paris 1783- UNITED STATES
NOW independent
46. UNITED STATES NOW STRETCHES
FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND FROM CANADA
TO THE FLORIDA BORDER.
47. 5000 African Americans served in the
Continental Army with Washington., James
Armistead Lafayette spied for the Americans.
Thousand of slaves took the opportunity to escape
to freedom-some with British help.
48. Women made ammunition, followed men to
camps where they washed and cooked for their
husbands, boycotted British products
• Molly McCauley (Pitcher) carried water and took
husbands place at a cannon.
• Deborah Sampson impersonated a man and was
hurt in battle-even received a pension.
15.