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First Continental Congress
Group of delegates from 12/13 colonies
Met in Philadelplia in 1774 to determine a course of action in response to the Intolerable Acts
Demanded that the Acts be repealed and that the crown recognizes the rights of the colonists
John Adams
Federalist
2nd President of the US
Served in France & Holland in diplomatic roles
Helped negotiate the treaty of peace
Economic Sanctions
Boycotts, embargoes, and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies
Colonists used boycotting and rioting to get many taxes repealed.
It was highly effective for them
Declaration of Rights and grievances
Document written by the Stamp Act Congress
Passed on October 14, 1765
Declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional
basically said that all Colonists had the rights of Englishmen
Second Continental Congress
A convention delegated from the 13 Colonies
Met on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pendylvania
Occurred just after the ‘warfare’ of the American Revolution
Its basic task was funding the revolution
Olive Branch Petition
July 8, 1775
Colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain
Agreed to be loyal to the British gov. if it addressed their grievances
Sent just after Lexington and Concord
Thomas Jefforson
Credited with writing the Declaration of Independence
3rd President
Approved the Louisiana Purchase
Promoted ideals of republicanism
Declaration of Independence
Formal document where the Continental Congress stated their reasons for breaking away from Great Britain
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson & was influenced by John Locke
Land Ordinance 1785
Law passed by the U.S. Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
It established a plan for surveying and selling federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Set up a grid system for surveying the land into townships and sections
Facilitated the sale and settlement of the Northwest Territory
This system became the basis for land ownership and settlement in the western United States.
Northwest Ordinance 1787
Laid out the process by which lands west of the appalachian mountains were to be surveyed and sold
method of creating townships and sections within townships was used to all US land after 1785
Lexington and Concord
Started the war
Attempt by the British to seize weaponry to stop the revolution before it started.
Ended up actually starting the war
Battle of Bunker Hill
first major battle of the Revolutionary War
“don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point in the war
Most battles after were American wins (because America is the best and we never lose)
Battle of Yorktown
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War
Fought in Yorktown Virginia
Forced British to surrender (surrounded on all sides) and sign articles of Capiutlation
October 19, 1781
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty signed by Great Britain, France and Spain that ended the revolutionary war
Articals of Confederation
First written constitution of the US
Adopted in 1781
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
Argued that the colonists should free themselves from British rule
protect mans natural rights
Patriots
The people who were rebelling against Britain during the war
Loyalists
Those in the colonies who remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution
Minutetemen
Small hand-picked elite forces that were part of the revolution
said they would be ready to fight within a minute
Continental
Associated to the two congresses
First in 1774 & the second in 1775
Continental Army formed after the revolutionary war
Valley Forge
Encampment where George Washingtons poorly equipped army spend a long freezing winter
Shay’s rebellion
a rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts
Led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays against Boston creditors
