US History Chapter4, 5, 6 Flashcards

(52 cards)

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The Halfway Covenant

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Let non-church members have same rights as church members

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2
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John Edwards famous speech

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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3
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George Whitefield

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Most powerful voice

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4
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4 Colleges that grew out of Great Awakening

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Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth

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5
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Phillis Wheatley

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First black female poet

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6
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David Brainerd

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Greatest Missionary to indians

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7
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Albany Plan

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Proposed by Benjamin Franklin

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8
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Mercantile theory

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A countries power was built on wealth

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9
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George III

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Became king in 1760

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10
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The Grenville Acts

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The Proc of 1763, Enforcement of trade laws, Sugar act of 1764, Currencey Act of 1764, Stamp Act of 1765, Quartering Act of 1765.

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11
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Edmund Burke

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Irish man that defended the position of the colonies

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12
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Navigation Act

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All goods must go through England first

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13
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Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies

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Pamphlet by John Dickinson that denied the right of parliament to legislate in the colonies

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14
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Boston Port Bill

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closed the Boston port till reimbursement for destroyed tea to East Indian Company

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15
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Boston Massacre

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Red Coats killed three Bostonians

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16
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Intolerable Acts

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Boston Port Bill, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Second Quartering Act.

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17
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The Gaspee Incident

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A British ship was borded by Rhode Island settlers and burned.

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18
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First Continental Congress

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September 5, 1774

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19
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Give me liberty or give me death

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Patrick Henry

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20
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Minutemen

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people ready to fight in a minutes notice

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21
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John Hancock and Sam Adams

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Arrested by British on April 18th, 1775

22
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Paul Reaver, William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott

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Rode through night to warn that British were coming

23
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April 19, 1775

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British troops march towards Lexington

24
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Shot heard all around the world

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started the war between England and America

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Ethan Allen
formed a frontier militia called the Green Mountain Boys
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Commander in cheif of second continental congress
George Washinton
27
Thomas Gage
replaced Hutchinson as royal govenor of massachucets
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The prohibitory act
removed protection on colonists in december 1775
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Thomas paine
Published Common sense in 1776
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Hessians
German Soldiers
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Thomas Jefferson
led the committe which prepared the Declaration of independence
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William Blackstone
published Commentaries on Laws of England
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Richard Henery Lee
presented a momentous resolution to the continental congress
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Whigs
People that were patriots
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Tories
people that were loyalists
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Five Europeans that aided america
Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben, Baron de Kalb, Kosciusko, Pulaski
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Robert Morris
American Superintendent
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Haym Soloman
Polish Jew who ran lucrative brokerages in NYC
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General Horatio Gates
Led his army to victory at Saratoga
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French helped America because . . .
they were influenced by the victory at Saratoga
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General Washinton stayed at . . .
Vally forge for the winter of 1777-1778
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Sir William Howe
Won battle at Albany
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Nathan Hale
A School teacher who was hanged for an attempt to tell Washinton important information on the British
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General Cornwallis
was commanded to chase "the old fox'
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General Nicholas
commander at the battle of Oriskany
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The Battle of Oriskany
Won by General Horatio Gates
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John Paul Jones and John Barry
two naval heros
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Fransis Marion
"The Swamp Fox"
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Thomas Sumter
"The Fighting Game Cock"
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Battle of Yorktown
the victory that ment triumph for the patriots in 1781
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Treaty of paris
reconsied the thirteen colonies as "free, sovereign, and independent states" in 1783
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George Rodgers Clark
siezed british posts at Kaskaskia and Cahokia