US History UNIT 1: Colonial America REVIEW

George Washington

Who led an attack on Fort Necessity against the French?

Lost North America territory & Canada

France at the end of the French & Indian War

Gained Canada and Florida

Britain at the end of the French & Indian War

Got Louisiana and lost Florida

Spain at the end of the French & Indian War

Sons of Liberty vs East India Tea Company

Who fought in the Boston Tea Party?

Protest against the Tea Act of 1773 and “taxation without representation”

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Proclamation Line of 1763

British government issued this to ban all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

Sugar Act

Reduced tax on sugar which eliminated merchants profits and sugar became harder to struggle

Stamp Act

Anything on paper is taxed and must carry a stamp —> colonists were mad no tax money was going back to them

Boston Massacre

British soldiers killed 5 men which increased the colonists’ fear of the British

Intolerable Acts

The Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing these laws that closed the Boston Harbor and created the Continental Congress (1st US Government)

Passion and Motivation

What was the colonies main advantage?

Common Sense

Pamphlet by Thomas Paine that listed the grievances the colonists had and what motivated them to join the cause

Lexington & Concord

The first military engagements that started the American Revolution

British were going to seize weapons and arrest colonists who stole military weapons.

What was the reason behind the battle at Lexington and Concord?

Tea Act

The British lowered the price of tea to direct colonies that made it so the colonists couldn’t buy tea from anyone else.

Declaration of Independence

Transcript which declared US independence from Britain and made U.S a country

Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Bunker Hill

Congress lost this battle but set heavy casualties on the British military

Trenton Battle

George Washington led the colonists to victory in this battle that uplifted the morale of the patriots.

Saratoga Battle

The British failed to take the Hudson River in this battle

Valley Forge Battle

The French allied with America and forms a permanent alliance

Yorktown Battle

The last battle of the war where the British were forced to surrender their position.