Unit 2 Apush terms part 2

Committes of Correspondece

Committes of Correspondece

Promted manufacturing in th Thirteen colonies and advised colonist not to buy goods imported by Britain

Tea Act

Law giving all control of the trade devlivery of tea to the East Indian Tea Company

Boston Tea Party

Prosets when 60 American colonist threw 342 chest of tea in Boston Harbor to aquite both a tax on tea

Intolerable Acts

4 laws passed by Parliment to punish Mass.for the tea party

Thomas Hunchinson

effories to carry out the British government colonial policies in Mass. inflamed oppostion to royal rule

Thomas Gage

Hoped to prevent violence by ordering the seizure of weapons and powder being stored in Concord, Mass.

Continental Congress

American colonial goverment coordinating their resistance to British rule during the 1st 2 years of A.R

The Association

A boycott on goods produced in British

Minutemen

Small hand-picked elite forces which were required to be highly mobile and able of assume quickly

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Marked the beginning of the American Rev

Valley Force

The site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of the contindental Army under Genral George Washington

Abigail Adams

First women to serve as second lady of the US and second women to serve as First lady

Mercy Otis Warren

One of the few women who broke the mold during a time when women were not expected not to participate in political matters

Molly Pitoner

Nickame of a women said to have carried water of American soilders during the Battle of Monmouth

Loyalist/Tories

Adherants of the royal goverment who opposed the Revolution were called this

Benedict Arnold

Patriot officers who was a tratior and switched to British allience

Gen.Charles Cornwallis

Surrendered at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, led to peace between British-America

Battle of Saratoga

Assured critical international recognition, aid, and helped secure the independence of the US

Maj. Gen. Natheniel Greene

Most respected generals of the Revolutionary war and a talented military strategist

Gen. Horatio Gates

English born American General, whose victory of the british at the Battle of Saratoga Turned the tide of victory in behalf of the Revoloutionaies

Treaty of Alliance

Creating a military alliance between the US and France against Britian

John Jay

Jurish who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first cheif of justice of the United States Spreme Court

Yorktown

The site of the final battle of the American Revolution

Treaty of Paris

Recognized U.S indepenced and granted the US significant western territory

Phyllis Wheatley

1st American slave, 1st African descent, and only the third colonial American Woman to have her work published

Second Continental Congress

the formal meeting of delegates from the Ameican colonies to form a provisional goverment together to make decisions about war with Britian over American Independece

Model Treaty

Temlate for commerical treaties that the U.S continetal congress sought to make with France and Spain in order to secure assistance in the struggle againist the British in the American Revolution

Olive Branch petition

Sent to King George III by congress where the delegates asked th king to stop using military force against the colonies

Declaration of Independence

wrote on July 4, 1776 act taken by all 13 colonies declaring Independence from British rule