8th Grade History Notes

A set of vocabulary flashcards based on 8th-grade history notes covering key events, acts, and concepts from the American Revolutionary period.

Tea Act

An act that colonists felt violated their rights to conduct free enterprise.

Intolerable Acts

British laws that were seen as harsh by colonists, prompting a boycott of British goods.

Fort Ticonderoga

Important for holding cannons and gunpowder, strategic for surprise attacks.

Patriots vs. Loyalists

Colonists split into two groups: Patriots favored war against Britain, Loyalists remained loyal to British.

Battle of Bunker Hill

First major battle of the Revolutionary War, showing Americans could stand up to the British.

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Ended the French and Indian War; Britain gained Canada and lands east of the Mississippi River.

Iroquois Confederacy

Native American group that sided with the British during the French and Indian War.

Fort Necessity

Built by Washington; a makeshift stockade after a surprise French counterattack.

Colonial Union

Colonial delegates wanted to form a union to work together against the French.

Proclamation of 1763

British law that prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.