Chapter 5 Flashcards
(17 cards)
The name of hired soldiers for England
Hessians
Lexington and Concord
The beginning the revolution
Treaty of Paris signed in the year…?
1783
Paxton Boys
A gang of colonists who took it upon themselves to clear the area of Indians
Quebec Act
Could’ve expanded Canada borders to the Ohio river
The place where Washington and his men spent a butt cold winter and nearly starved to death
Valley Forge (The winter of 1777-78)
Saratoga
The battle that convinced the French to join the colonists
The Iroquois who killed hundred of militiamen along Pennsylvania border were led by…
Joseph Brant
Charles Cornwallis
One of the generals that led the Carolina campaign and battled up American forces on the Charlestown Peninsula. British won greatest patriot defeat.
Battle of Kings Mountain
Turning point of war in the south. Sharpshooters decimated British forces which encouraged farmers to join effort against British.
General Nathanael Greene
The fighting Quaker
Battle of Yorktown
Patriots won, parliament decides to end war
Treaty that ended revolution…?
Treaty of Paris (1783)
• recognized independence of 13 colonies
•Mississippi as Americas western border
What were the holes in the Articles of Confederation?
- ) inability to regulate trade through tariffs
- ) inability to provide standard currency
- ) the inability to tax
Salutary Neglect
A sort of hands off policy of the English. They didn’t enforce laws and regulations in the colonies
Letters from a Pennsylvania farmer
John Dickinson
Opens up the conversation of taxing without representation
Who was the defense attorney for the the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
John Adams.
