7 & 8 Flashcards
Battle of Saratoga
Showed french we could fight
Battle of fort Ticonderoga
Americans attacked and seized a stockpile of British weapons
Battle of Yorktown
Ended Revolutionary War
Colonists won
Sea and land battle- George Washington
Treaty of Paris 1783 -*****
- English recognized Colonists independence
- US gets land east of Mississippi and south of Canada
- US gets Grand Banks to fish
- Tories get fair treatment
- Spain gets Florida
George Rodgers Clark
a patriot military man who seized control of British forts on Ohio River
Writs of assistance
right to search
Vice Admiralty Courts
Courts in America that dealt with trade laws and navigation
dealt with by judge not by jury
Gaspee Incident
a British ship ran aground and a group of colonists torched the ship and looted it
Intolerable acts
Series of acts passed by Parliament
to punish colonists for tea party
Lee’s Resolution
Resolution at 2nd continental congress- America should break off
- form own Gov
- form foreign alliances
Suffolk Resolves
The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resolved on a boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed.
American Prohibitory Act
Britain declared Colonists enemies and declared anyone who traded with them an enemy.
Quebec Act
passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.
Olive Branch Petition
America’s final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain.
Contential Association
Boycotted British goods
enforced by safety committees
