American History unit 1 test

he wrote common sense

location: Yorktown leaders: Cornwallis, Washington outcome: Americans and French surrounded Cornwallis and bombarded casing him to surrender and the Americans ended up winning the war

location: new jersey leaders: Washington outcome: colonist kill hessians while they are asleep and drunk

location: courthouse in North Carolina leaders: Cornwallis and Greene outcome: British won but lost a lot of their troops

location: Saratoga leaders: gates, john, Washington outcome: British surrenders to Americans but they change their war strategy

a series of laws restricting colonial trade colonial merchants resented act and kept trading and smuggling

put all northern colonies under one ruler in Boston northern colonies did not like it so Massachusetts sent most prominent minister to see if they would change it

allowed British customs official to search any ship or building colonists would sue in court and remove it but they failed

halve duty of foreign made molasses, placed duties on certain imports, strengthened enforcement of the law colonists boycotted and the act was repealed

banned al settlements west of the Appalachian mountains/ established proclamation line colonists were not allowed to cross proclamation line but colonists kept crossing it and moving west

required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for everything that had to do with the government it reached into every colonists pocket and whoever didn't follow it would be tried in a court

parliament had permission to make any laws they want to there was no reaction

indirect taxes of imported materials colonist reacted with rage and said "taxation without representation"

king George 3rd tightens control over Massachusetts by closing Boston harbor and quartering troops colonial leaders from the first continental congress drew up a declaration of colonial rights

Britain gives the east India company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea merchants thy rebel by dumping 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor (Boston tea Party)

written by Thomas Jefferson

soldiers that could be ready in a minute

this treaty ended the French and Indian war

a country ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and all country were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver

relaxed and did not pay attention to colonies following navigation acts (England)

mob started throwing things at British soldiers and the British reacted with violence

he is apart of the sons of liberty

Thomas Paine wrote this and it was a pamphlet that attacked the king and told colonists it was time to create an indirect republic

helped Washington make the colonial army into a well trained army

a belief in the equality of people (only white males)

they would no longer have kings, they would eventually create a government

both the French and the British were after the Ohio river valley

tried to unite colony's but got rejected

organized boycotts

they would communicate protests

told king they will not follow him if he did not give them their rights and that ended up starting Lexington and concord-Paul revere

bunker hill- after this they offered the olive branch petition to the king