Test Review: American Revolution
The Colonies Unite
· John Adams
· George Washington
· Thomas Jefferson
· Philadelphia
· 1st Continental Congress
o Olive Branch Petition
o Boycott
o Militia
· 2nd Continental Congress
o Declaration of Independence
o Declaration committee
o Natural rights – John Locke
o Unalienable rights
o Consent of the governed
o Tyrant
o July 4, 1776
PPT: The American Revolution
· Colonial beliefs as causes
· Advantages and Disadvantages
· First Continental Congress
· John Locke
· Patriots, Loyalists, Neutral - locations and reasons
· Financial problems
o Haym Solomon
· Patrick Henry
· Midnight riders – Revere, Dawes, Prescott, Cheswell
· Lexington & Concord
o Ralph Waldo Emerson
· Ticonderoga
o Benedict Arnold
o Ethan Allen and Green Mountain Boys
· Second Continental Congress
o Olive Branch Petition
o King George III
o Hessians
o Ben Franklin
o Continental Army
o George Washington
o Articles of Confederation
· Problems with Continental Army
· Bunker Hill
o Quote
o Significance of battle
· Thomas Paine
o “Common Sense”
o “The Crisis”
o Effects of each
· Declaration of Independence
o Lee, Hancock, Jefferson
o Unalienable rights
o Natural rights – John Locke
· New York Campaign
· Nathan Hale
· African Americans – Peter Salem, Lemuel Hayes
· Trenton and Princeton
o Events leading to Trenton
o Effects of both battles
· Saratoga
o Causes of British loss
o Effects
o people
· Foreign Allies
o France
o Bernardo de Galvez
· Valley Forge
o Lafayette, Von Steuben, Pulaski
· John Paul Jones
· George Rogers Clark
· Nathaniel Greene
· Yorktown
o Cornwallis
o French fleet (navy)
· James Armistead
· Treaty of Paris – terms, boundaries, people
· Newburgh Conspiracy
· Abigail Adams – women and war
· Social issues after the war
· Why the Americans won
Quotes
· “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
· “shot heard ‘round the world”
· “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
· “I regret that I have but one live to lose for my country.”
· “These are the times that try men’s soul.”
· “I have not yet begun to fight”
Analyzing the Declaration of Independence
· Grievances