Cause and Effect
What war caused the British to go into debt, making them tax the Colonists?
French and Indian war
"The Shot Heard Around the World" was said about what battle in the Revolutionary War?
The Battle of Lexington and Concord.
The First U.S. President
George Washington
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress?
July 4, 1776.
Author of the Constitution
James Madison
The Stamp Act led to what famous phrase?
"No taxation without Representation"
Name the 3 types of American groups fighting in the war.
Continental Army
Colonial Militias
Civilians
Author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Which Continental Congress decided to declare independence from Britain?
Second Continental Congress
The 1st 10 Amendments are called what?
Bill of Rights
The Stamp Act Congress sent what document to the king of England?
the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
This battle was the "turning point" in the war.
The Battle of Saratoga
He was sent to France as the Ambassador to the United States.
Benjamin Franklin
What Acts were punishment for the Boston Tea Party, that led to the calling of the First Continental Congress.
Intolerable Acts
the Constitution set up 3 branches of government. What are the 3 branches?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Explain the Navigation Acts.
Heavily regulated trade and imposing high taxes.
Name one thing the Americans got from the Treaty of Paris and on thing the British got.
American: INDEPENDENCE, Land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Florida (Ohio River Valley),All redcoats were forced to leave the U.S.
British: Merchants could collect debts owed by Americans, Patriots have to give back the items taken from the Loyalists
The General who surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown?
Cornwallis
At the 1st Continental Congress, all delegates agreed to not declare independence from Britain and instead sent what to the king?
Declaration of Rights
What is the Senates representation based on?
What is the House of Representatives representation based on?
equal representation
population
Explain the effect John Locke had on the founding fathers.
Locke’s ideas of natural rights and wrote that there are “certain inalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
The people had the right to “alter or to abolish” unjust governments
Name one strength and one weakness of the Patriots.
Strength of Patriots: Familiar with the environment, A commitment to win the war, Short supply lines to their soldiers, A defensive strategy to outlast the British
Weaknesses of Patriots: Soldiers untrained, shortage of supplies, no central government
President of the 2nd Continental Congress?
John Hancock
Who believed that citizens have a social contract with their government and only the elected have the right to make new laws.
Rousseau
How was the Constitution a symbol of freedom?
Put forth the idea that there are certain rights that belong to everyone.