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RA - Chapter 7, 8, & 9
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12/09/2015

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Term
Valley Forge
Definition
  • Pennsylvania
  • Washington and his troops camped in December 1777 during Revoultionaty War
  • extrmely low supply of food and clothing
  • Washington asked all the colonies (except Georgia) to help and send them supplies
Term
Continental Army
Definition
  • Army created by the Patriots to fight the British in the Revoultionary War
  • Lead by Gen. Washington 
Term
Loyalists / Tories
Definition
  • American colonists who sided with the Britsh during the Revolutionary War
Term
Patriots
Definition
  • colonists who rebelled against the Britsh in the Revolutionary War
Term

Virginia Dynasty 


Definition
  • Jefferson (1801-09), Madison(1809-17), and Monroe(1817-25)
  • Jeffersonian Republicans
Term
Louisiana Purchase
Definition
  • In 1803 Monroe's purchase of the French lands west of the Mississippi from Napoleon for $15 millio under Jefferson's presidency
  • to stop the french from using the land to fight the British and compromising American trade on the Mississippi
Term

 

Toussaint L’Ouverture / Slave Revolt (1791) 

Definition
  • An army of 30,000 French troops was defeated by yellow fever and an army of slaves led by Toussaint L'Ouverture
  • The defeat caused Napoleon to sell Louisiana 
Term
Embargo Act
Definition
  • 1807
  • forbade American ships from sailing in foreign ports 
  • cut off imports and exports
  • Directed at French and Birtish because they disregareded neutral rights for American vessels 
Term
War Hawks
Definition
  • Henry Clay
  • John Calhoun
  • Resisted British influence and tolerance 
  • Expansionists 
Term

 

Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key 

Definition
  • Americans success in 1814 against British after they were defeated at Washington during the War of 1812
  • Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner while watching the battle
Term
Treaty of Ghent
Definition
  • 1814 signed in Ghent on Christmas Eve
  • ended the War of 1812
  • inconclusive
  • British agreed to evactute their western posts 
Term
Abigail Adams
Definition
  • wife of John Adams
  • ran the family farm
  • wrote to her husband on issues surrounding the war
Term
Mary Otis Warren
Definition
  • Daughter of James Otis
  • published a series of satires scorning loyalists and supporting Americans
Term
Mary Pitcher
Definition
  • Mary Ludwig Hays 
  • brought water to patriots during the battle of Manmouth in June 1778
  • Took her husband's place the the cannon
Term
Benedict Arnold
Definition
  • American hero in early battles
  • became resentful of Americans
  • Became paid informer of the head of the Britsh army General Clinton 
  • Patriots discovered his treason in 1780
  • Fled to the British and became a brigader general of the British army 
Term

 

Gen. Horatio Gates

Definition
  • American general that fought Gen. Borgoyne's army at Lake George
  • When Gen. Borgoyne was defeated he retreated to Saratoga 
Term
Phillis Wheatley
Definition
  • Domestic slave women who wrote peoms from boston
  • Got published in london
Term
Tariff of 1816
Definition
  • first procative tariff
  • tariff on imported wollens and cottons on iorn leather hats paper and sugar
Term
Napolean Bonaparte
Definition
  • leader of france 
  • lead military conquests 
  • began a 12 year war Britain 
  • Sold Louisiana to America
Term
Missouri Compromise
Definition
  • In 1820 the compromise that missouri would enter the union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state
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