Modern Military History Revolutionary War Module 1

• Roanoke Island

was first attempt of a settlement in 1585 

Jamestown 

1st English permanent settlement in the Americans and original capital of the Virginia Colony

John Smith,

n adventure who had become leader, of Jamestown made new rule “ he that will not work will not eat”

• John Rolife

created a high - quality tobacco that will save Jamestown 

nickname for Tobacco

brown gold

KIng Phillips’ s War

War against Native American’ s led by Metacom against the colonists

• New England colonies

• had long harsh winters and short growing season so economy based on the sea ( shipping, fishing, trade ) 

Middle colonies

milder winter and longer growing seasons so economy based on grain  farming and animal husbandry

• Southern colonies -
  

• had hotter climates and long growing seasons so economy was focused on plantations growing cash crops of tobacco, indigo , rice 

what was New France

territory colonized by the French in North America

The French and Indian War

began in 1753 and would escalate into a worldwide conflict know as 7 years war

what treaty ended the French and Indian War

treaty of Paris

What is the Turing point of the French and Idian War

• William Pitt is put in charge of running the war in England 

• Proclamation of 1763

set boundary along Appalachian Mountains providing Land and to the west as “ Indian reserve “ 

What happened to Britian’ s debt during the French and Indian War

doubled

•  Sugar Act

• lowered the tax on foreign molasses with hope of increasing its collectability 

Stamp Act 

• Passed in 1765 to pay for increase in peacetime troops needed in colonies 

What did Colonial lawyers argue against the stamp act

taxation without representation

Stamp - Act Congress 

• Meeting of colonial representatives in New York City to protest Stamp Act 

The Sons of Liberty 

• Underground group formed in response to the Stamp Ac

Who were the prominent members of the sons of liberty ?

• Samuel Adams, John Hancock,Paul Revere, and Patrick Henry 

Townshend Acts 

• Tax on imported lead, glass, tea, and paint 

Boston Massacare 

March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people and wounding several others.

• Committees of Correspondence

created to provide communication between the colonies of British Threats 

who had a monopoly on selling tea in British Empire,?

The British East India Company

Boston Tea Party 

• December 16th 1773 over 50 colonists dressed as Native Americans , boarded 3 tea ships in Boston Harbor 

• They dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor

Coercive Acts 

• Known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts, were designed to punish Boston , and Boston Harbor was shut down

Quartering Act -

colonists had to house British troops

1st Continental Congress 

• Delegated from all the colonies except for GA met in Philadelphia 

•  minutemen,

• militia to be ready at a moments notice to fight if needed 

what is known as the shot heard around the world ?

first shots fired by American militia at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775

Battle of Bunker Hill 

• Rebel soldiers were given orders to capture and fortify Bunker Hill, the highest hill in the area, instead they would fortify Breed’ s Hill 

• British has to make 3 assaults 

• 3rd is successful only because the rebels ran out of ammo 

• Olive Branch petition

ask for a return to peace between England and Colonies 

who was voted to control the Continetal Army

GW

• Continental  Army -

• a standing professional army 

• Uniform was a blue coat, with a white vest 

• Required pay , uniforms and weapons 

• Signed short term contracts 

• Militia Men -

• Amateur citizen soldiers 

• Wore civilian clothes and provided their own weapons 

• They were not as obedient and could come and go as they pleased 

• Often reluctant to fight outside of home colony

Loyalists 

• Colonists loyal to the Crown 

• Sometime called “Tories”

grenadiers

wore tall bearskin hats

•  line companies

• were deployed in long battle lines two or three ranks deep 

Brown Bess 

• Nickname for the the British muzzle- loading smoothbore flintlock musket 

Common Sense 

•  50 page pamphlet titled which attacked KIng Geroge III and called for independence 

who was Amrica’s 1st sectary of War appointed by GW

Henry Knox 

The Battle of Brooklyn (LOng Island ) 

• Largest battle of the American Revolution 

what was the Turtle 

what Patriots used to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle

• hessians

• german mercanies 

Marquis De Lafayette 

• French aristocrat who dedicated his life to  the cause of freedom 

• Became a French Military officer and chose to volunteer to win himself military glory in America 

what was the Turing point of the Revolution War

Battle of Saratoga

treaty of Alliance

where France agreed to recognize United States as independent nation

where did Gw and his men camp for the winter

Valley Forge

Friedrich Wilhelm von Struben

a former a Prussian army officer who volunteered to train the Continental Army

what is the last major battle of the Revolution War fought in the northern states

Battle of Monmouth 

what was women’ s role in the Continental Army

•  cooking,washing,nursing and mending for the soldiers 

what did Bendict Arnold do ?

• arranged to had over fort over to British for command in their army and money 

• Plot was discovered just before it could be carried out 

• name is synomus with being a traitor

what is the greatest British victory in the Revolutionary War

• capturing Charles Town ( Charleston) South Carolina 

• Treaty of Paris -

• confirmed U.S independence and set boundaries off a new nation 

Where do the British surrender to end the revolutionary war

battle of Yorktown