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Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards

(13 cards)

1
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Prohibitory Act (1775)

A
  • closed colonies to overseas trade (naval blockade)

- no concessions to American demands

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Common Sense (1776)

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  • Thomas Paine

- bash monarchy, propagandize revolution

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Influence of the Declaration of Independence

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  • inspired independence movements in American and France
  • led to increased foreign aid for the struggling rebels
  • encouraged American Patriots to fight
  • divided American society
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Battle of Bunker Hill (6/17/1775)

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-heaviest British casualties of the war, even though they win the battle and patriots driven from there position there

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General William Howe

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  • basically the reason the British lost the American Revolution
  • abandoned his own strategy and didn’t take opportunities to strike
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Battle of Saratoga (oct. 1777)

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  • turning point
  • British surrender
  • leads to French-American alliance
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Why did more Americans begin to support the independence movement once the war began?

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  1. High human/financial cost calls for noble cause
  2. British recruit slaves, Indians, and foreign mercenaries
  3. British reject Olive Branch Petition and enforce Prohibiory Act
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8
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Joseph and Mary Brant

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  • influential in Mohawk tribe

- persuaded their tribe and others to help British cause

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Lord Cornwallis

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  • British commander in the south

- had a representative surrender for him at Yorktown bc he didn’t have the balls to do it himself

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Nathaniel Greene

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  • bomb af American general (south)
  • Quaker, former blacksmith
  • practically beat Cornwallis
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Olive Branch Petition

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  • final attempt by the colonists to avoid war with Great Britain/find a compromise
  • rejected by the king
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Second Continental Congress

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  • met in the State House in Philadelphia (delegates from every colony but Georgia)
  • agreed to support the war, disagreed on the purpose
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Yorktown

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  • Cornwallis surrendered

- last major battle of revolution

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