Review Booklet (1)
Created By: Jeanette Gu
George Washington
Hint: Washington = Wash to White = White Hair
Portrait: George Washington
Mercantilism
Hint: Mercantilism = Merchant Metals = wealth for a nation
Comic: Relationship between Colonies and England
Navigation Acts
Hint: Navigation = trade = requirements
Depiction of Trade
Sugar Act
Hint: Sugar = molasses = seems too sweet (downside of violating rights)
Original Printing of the 1764 Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Hint; everything paper needs a stamp, hence the 'Stamp' Act
Official Stamps to signify Tax
Continental Congress
-authorizing printing of money and set up post office
-formed committee to handle relations with the Natives and foreign countries
Actions took in relation to the American Revolution...
-created Continental Army and chose George Washington as Command
-sent Olive Branch Petition to King George III
Hint: Political Body (just like modern society) for challenging Brit control
Depiction of Continental Congress Meeting
New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
-Separatists were first to settle in Plymouth (Pilgrims)
-Puritans (Massachusetts Bay Company) established colony North of Plymouth
-Thomas Hooker founded Hartford in the Connecticut River Valley
-John Wheelwright (dissident) led to found Exeter in New Hampshire
-relied heavily on fishing and ship related economy (only subsistence farming)
-Puritans and Separatists were seeking religious freedom
Middle: included Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
-were motivated to settlement by religious freedoms and economic reasons
-William Penn founded Pennsylvania
-the bulk of the middle colonies' revenue was supported by the fertile soil and land that provided crops, timber, furs, coal, and iron ore
Southern: included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
-economy almost completely supported by cash crops/farming
-settled for good-quality materials, moist climate that was suited for crops, for religious freedom, for purpose of getting away from the king
-John Smith helped the colonies survive starvation by encouraging farming orders that all must work or face starvation.
Hint: New: North, Middle = Middle, Southern = in the south
13 American Colonies in 1775
Mercenaries
-American Revolution: were employed by Britain from Germany to fight against the rebelling colonies
-mercenaries = armies
Hessians During the American Revolution
Loyalists
-EX: William Franklin was was a Loyalist who had served as a royal governor of New Jersey
Hint: LOYAL to England
Party of Loyalists
Patriots
-American colonist who favored American independence
-EX: George Washington who was the general of the Continental Army
Hint: patriotic = believed in rights and country's liberty
Depiction of Marching Patriots
Native Americans
Hint: Native to America
Members of a Native Tribe
Paul Revere
-rode to Lexington from Concord in order to warn the others that the British were advancing
Hint: The Famous Midnight Ride
The Famed Midnight Ride
Separatists
Hint: wanted to separate from England
Travelers of the Mayflower
Pacifists
Hints: pacify = satisfying peace
Pacifists protesting movement against Cuba
Bunker Hill
-June 17, 1775: British charged Patriots and Patriots opened fire
-British victory yet the Brits realized this revolution was not going to be a quick easy fight
Hint: Bunker = Battle
Battle at Bunker Hill in Progress
Boston Massacre
-was product of anger because colonists were unhappy about Brits being there
-because result was death of five colonists, colonists' anger grew
Hint: Massacre of Colonists in Boston
Depiction of the Boston Massacre
Proclamation of 1763
-kept colonists on the coast and good relations with the Native Americans
Hint: NO GO APPS
Proclamation by the King Representation
King George
Hint: King
Portrait of King George
Thomas Paine
Hint: Civics from last year: Common Sense
Thomas Paine and his Accomplishments
Boston Tea Party
Hint: Tea Harbor, Boston
Artist's Rendering of the Boston Tea Party
The Mayflower Compact
-document set up an organized, detailed gov.
Hint: Mayflower Compact = Pilgrims' laws/requirements
Artist's Rendering of the Mayflower Compact Signing
The French and Indian War
-Britain wanted control of the Ohio River Valley that had been controlled by the French up till then (had valuable trade posts)
-Britain prevailed over French and France and Spain's claim on North America disappeared
-start of Britain's reign over North America
Hint: France and Natives against Britain
War in Motion
Olive Branch Petition
-was rejected and king prepared for war
Hint: Olive Branch = Peace
Olive Branch Petition Pic
Shays' Rebellion
-were treated harshly because they were unable to pay taxes for land, courts took land and locked them up
-gov realized that the Articles of Confederation were faulty because of this event
Hint: Daniel Shays = farmer
Shays' Rebellion Depiction
Articles of Confederation
Hint: was not strong
Articles of Confederation in Print
Constitutional Convention
Resolution: Three Fifths Compromise
Conflict: Too much power in the Federal Government
Resolution: Three Branches, Checks and Balances
-Participants: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Edmund Randolph (VA Plan)
Hint: Meeting for Constitution
Depiction of Constitutional Convention
Jamestown
Hint: Virginia Company = Jamestown
Depiction of Jamestown Colony
John Locke
Hint: Civics
Portrait of John Locke
Federalists
-EX: Thomas Paine
Hint: Federal gov. should have more power
Examples of Federalists
Slave Codes
Hint: code for slaves
Depiction of Slave Codes
Anti-Federalists
Hint: anti-federal government
Examples of Anti-Federalists
Intolerable Acts
-series of laws that punished colonists for the event of the Boston Tea Party
-Hint: to coerce colonists to behave, intolerable for colonists
Spiteful Image against Intolerable Acts
William Penn
-was a Quaker
Hint: Penn = Pennsylvania
Portrait of William Penn
Writ of Assistance
-also known as the Sugar Act
Hint: to assist Britain in searches
Depiction of Writ of Assistance
Yorktown
-Continental Army prevailed over the British
-significance was that it was the last battle that ultimately led to the American victory in the revolution
Hint: Battle at Yorktown (my group)
Battle at Yorktown in Motion
Cause and Effect of the Revolutionary War
Disadvantages of Patriots: no official training, barely any supplies, no formal army
Advantages of British: world's greatest army, had funds, well-trained
Disadvantages of British: far from home, had mercenaries
Hint: Classwork