US History 2

Why were the Puritans beginning to lose control?

Wanted to get the church back to the basics. "Fire and brimstone", dramatized witches

Salem Village

The town minister

Parris' slave, confessed to witchcraft

Play/Movie that targeted the Salem Witch Trials

How many cases of witchcraft in the colonies?

An average townswoman that was declared a witch;put to death and hanged

Wife condemned a witch

The toll of the Salem Witch Trials

Reasons for the Salem Witch Trials

The heart of the family

Domestic duties of the woman

Duties of women in the field

The man is out in the fields

Seen as free labor

Most widespread device in the early American colonies, people learned to read from this

Boys Apprentice to be

Girls apprentice to be

Basic Colonial Diet

Primary meat of the colonists

What colonials drank

A famous distiller

Archaic methods, bad things in blood were causing illness

Draining "bad blood"

Weird Remedies

Another name for the French and Indian War

Mother country lets their countries govern themselves, conciliation with the colonies. Coined by?

Do not have strength in numbers, respective of Native American culture, built a society based on alliances, uses the enemy as incentive

British War Governor

Elite, Lt. Colonell, leads 160 men into Ohio River valley, surrenders

Washingotn eradicated French patrol in an area, takes prisoners and takes them to the fort on lower ground; attacked from higher ground

General, arrogant, racist, elitist, believes there is no way that he'll lose

French fortress, have to go through thick Pennsylvania forest

Guerrilla warfare, 2200 men with Braddock, walks into an ambush, Braddock fatally wounded

How was Braddock killed?

One of the more important French generals. Captures many forts, has many victories, defended Quebec, did not understand relationship Native Americans-French

British fort captured by Montcalm and his men

Why do they take prisoners?

How much more money did the English spend than the French?

Fought in the Battle of Quebec

Another name for the Battle of Quebec

Prime minister, victory at all costs mentality, spend until we win

Treaty of Paris- English gained

Treaty of Paris- Spain Gained

Treaty of Paris- Colonials gained

Ottawa Indian chirf attacks colonial and English forts in the Ohio River Valley; based on resistance

Brutality in Western Penn, Native Americans are seen as menaces to society

Eradicated everyone, fueled by rage

Blankets laced with small pox

Protect Native American rights, keep the peace, demarcation line-colonists ignored

Create revenue, but a miniscule amount

Prime minister, believes it was "just and necessary" to tax

Taxes wine, coffee, and molasses

High taxes on French sugar, black market trade involved

Controlled currency, colonial money not worth anything in English trade

Forced the colonies to take in soldiers, Parliament disagrees with this, colonials must provide supplies

Taxed colonial commercial and legal papers, playing cards and dice

No colonists are represented in Parliament and none are allowed to vote

American protester, seen as treasonous by some

Leader of the Sons of Liberty, could be seen as terroristic

Sons of Liberty destroy his home, make an effigy of him, and burned down his new tax office

Popular tactic used on tax collectors

Loyal to the crown, mostly found in New England

Prime minister during french and Indian war

Chief financial advisor for William Pitt

Acts used to grow the English government's treasury

Act specifically for New York

Taxation on most used and traded goods

Nickname for English soldiers

1st Victim of the Revolutionary War, Mullato

Crispus Attucks and companions started chain of open fire

Drew Propaganda shaded towards the colonials

Defended the English in the Boston Massacre

Colonial merchants must pay tax to produce their own tea

Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty impersonate Mohawk Indians, and throw 18 thousands pounds of tea into the harbor

The English unleash these upon the colonies after the Boston Tea Party

New Governor of Massachusetts from the Intolerable Acts

Fur and fish trade can continue, French control the Ohio river valley

Life, Liberty, Property, Assembly, and trial by jury, no taxation without representation

Wants to recover everything from the New England powder houses without conflict

Mounts a horse and rides to Lexington, meets Samuel and John Hancock, one if by land, two if by sea

The first battle of the American Revolution, colonials retreat, 15 minute fight

Seek formal separation from English

Separation from the English is a bad idea

Nominated by John Adams, well known and supported by Congress, leads the Continental army

Led by General William How, Colonials had advantage and had to retreat because they ran out of ammo

Instills confidence in the colonials that they can defeat the English

German mercinaries that fight for the English, seen as beastly and brutal

150,000 copies, pamphlet written where people can understand it, explores both sides

America's Divorce Papers, Life liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Signed?

The people have the power, who coined it?

Monarch that the Declaration of Independence was sent to

Included in signing the Declaration

Polished hot shot, slave owner, strong and talented political writer and thinker

Wanted to eliminate blacks from service- they'll expect something in return

Offer to slaves- if they choose to join the crown they would be freed

60 cannons, forced English out and takes Boston

Howe beats Washington in New York

Washington and his men attack Hessians right after Christmas and overwhelms them

Washington wins as well after the Battle of Trenton here

The year of the hangman

Famous colonial general, 12,000 troops vs. Burgoyne's 6000

Philadelphia falls to the ENglish

Brutal conditions during the Winter, 2,500 die

Disciplinarian general

Frontiersman, William Clark's brother, revolutionary war hero

George Rogers Clark deceives English guard with his number of men

General Nathaniel Greene leads the Americans, Cornwallis blamed himself for not defeating the Americans here

Inspired by the Pennsylvanian mutiny, around a dozen leave

Why did the British lose?