UNITED STATES HISTORY HANDOUTS

CHAPTER 4

 

UNITED STATES HISTORY CHAPTER 4 REVIEW SHEET

Marquis Duquesne                                                 Committee of Correspondence

Robert Dinwiddie                                                   Gaspee

George Washington                                                British East India Company

Great Meadows                                                     Tea Act

Fort Necessity                                                        Boston Tea Party

Albany Conference                                                Coercive Acts

Albany Plan of Union                                             Quebec Act

Edward Braddock                                                 Intolerable Acts

Fort Duquesne                                                       First Continental Congress

Fort Pitt                                                                 Declaration of Rights and Grievances

French and Indian War                                           minutemen

Seven Years War                                                  Loyalists

John Forbes                                                          Patriots

William Pitt                                                            Paul Revere

James Wolfe                                                          William Dawes

General Montcalm                                                  Dr. Samuel Prescott

Treaty of Paris I                                                     Battle of Bunker Hill

Delaware Prophet                                                 Olive Branch Petition

Pontiac                                                                  Common Sense

King George III                                                     Thomas Paine

Proclamation of 1763                                             Declaration of Independence

George Greenville                                                 Thomas Jefferson

Customs duties                                                     William Howe

John Hancock                                                       Robert Morris

John Adams                                                          guerrilla warfare

Sugar Act                                                             Nathan Hale

Due process                                                         Hessians

Inflation                                                                John Burgoyne

Currency Act of 1764                                           Valley Forge

Stamp Act                                                           Marquis de Lafayette

Quartering Act                                                     Friedrich von Steuben

Sons of Liberty                                                    Benedict Arnold

House of Burgesses                                             Saratoga

Stamp Act Congress                                            George Rogers Clark

Nonimportation agreement                                   John Paul Jones

Declaratory Act                                                   Charles Cornwallis

Charles Townshend                                             Battle of Kings Mountain

Townshend Acts                                                  Francis Marion

Revenue Act of 1767                                           Yorktown

Writs of assistance                                               Anthony Wayne

Sam Adams                                                         Rochembeau

Lobster backs                                                     Francois de Grasse

Crispus Attucks                                                   Treaty of Paris II

Boston Massacre                                                Benjamin Franklin

Battle of White Plains                                           Battle of Long Island

Letters of marque

 

 

 

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THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN


If buttercups buzz'd after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.

 

YANKEE DOODLE

Yankee Doodle came to town,
A-ridin' on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle Dandy;
Mind the music and the steps
And with the girls be handy.

Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Cap'n Goodwin;
The men and boys all stood around
As thick as hasty puddin'.

Yankee Doodle keep it up,
Yankee Doodle Dandy;
Mind the music and the steps
And with the girls be handy
 

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History of American Flag.


For more than 200 years, the American flag has been the symbol of our nation's strength and unity. It's been a source of pride and inspiration for millions of citizens. And it has been a prominent icon in our national history. Here are the highlights of its unique past.

On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army was reorganized in accordance with a Congressional resolution which placed American forces under George Washington's control. On that New Year's Day the Continental Army was laying siege to Boston which had been taken over by the British Army. Washington ordered the Grand Union flag hoisted above his base at Prospect Hill. It had 13 alternate red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner (the canton).

In May of 1776, Betsy Ross reported that she sewed the first American flag.

On June 14, 1777, in order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation."

Between 1777 and 1960, Congress passed several acts that changed the shape, design and arrangement of the flag and allowed for additional stars and stripes to be added to reflect the admission of each new state.

· Act of January 13, 1794 - provided for 15 stripes and 15 stars after May 1795.

· Act of April 4, 1818 - provided for 13 stripes and one star for each state, to be added to the flag on the 4th of July following the admission of each new state, signed by President Monroe.

· Executive Order of President Taft dated June 24, 1912 - established proportions of the flag and provided for arrangement of the stars in six horizontal rows of eight each, a single point of each star to be upward.

· Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated January 3, 1959 - provided for the arrangement of the stars in seven rows of seven stars each, staggered horizontally and vertically.

· Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated August 21, 1959 - provided for the arrangement of the stars in nine rows of stars staggered horizontally and eleven rows of stars staggered vertically.


Today the flag consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red alternating with 6 white. The stripes represent the original 13 colonies, the stars represent the 50 states of the Union. The colors of the flag are symbolic as well: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.




 

 

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