History Exam Review Part2 Flashcards
(27 cards)
Crispus Attucks
Runaway slave killed in the Boston massacre
Thomas Paine
Wrote common sense-significance: showed Americans didn’t owe allegiance to the king. Urged colonists to get away from England and to establish and American republic
Thomas Jefferson
Drafted Declaration of Independence and was from Virginia
Common sense by Paine
Attacking those that weren’t in America. It urged colonists to get away from England
Albany plan of union( what did it say, who wrote it, and what did the cartoon say)
- Created grand council
- Raised taxes and army
- Made treaties & established settlements
Cartoon: join or die
Written by Franklin
Boycott
When u are banned from buying goods from someone else. Ex: Boston tea party, and Townsend acts
Intolerable acts
Passed because of the Boston tea party
Boston massacre significance
Townsend acts repealed and boycott worked
Boston tea party
What: sons of Liberty dressed as natives and dumped tea overboard
What did this lead to: intolerable acts
Result: British had a tight clamp on the US
What did James Otis jr say
No taxation without representation
Declaration of Independence
July 4,1776 in Philadelphia by continental congress.
Found in unalienable rights. John Locke inspired Declaration of Independence
First continental congress
Intolerable acts led to creation of this group
French and Indian war
Led to treaty of Paris 1763
Sam Adams
Against British policies; designed committees of correspondence
Mercantilism and why was it used
Def:system of maintaining and creating wealth through carefully and controlled trade
Used: made sure more products were being sold by England then products being bought by England
Olive branch petition
The colonists didn’t want to go to war with British so they made one more attempt at peace. The king squashed this idea
Proclamation of 1763
Colonial reaction: colonists continues to ignore and they settle west of the Appalachian mtns
Purpose: Britain was in debt and didn’t have the extra money to protect the Ohio River valley
2nd continental congress
People: Adams, Hancock, Franklin, Washington, Henry
What: discussed how to handle Britain, made an army, and made money
Significance: they started acting like a government
Stamp act
What: required all legal and commercial documents to have a stamp
Significance: no taxation without representation, colonists gathered for stamp act congress
Committees of correspondence
Made sure people didn’t forget the cause of Liberty. This linked the colonies
Sugar act
What: placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. There were strict punishments for smugglers
Significance: Otis said that taxation without representation is tyranny
Tea act
What: gave the British East Indies company the power to sell only this tea in America. Boycott led to Boston massacre
Townsend acts
Placed duties on glass, paper, paint, led, and tea to raise money
Significance: protested at the Boston massacre
Unalienable rights
They are rights that can’t be taken away which are right to life, liberty, and property
