Resistance to the Mother Country
In the First Continental Congress, the delegates met to do this:
- Repealed the Intolerable Acts.
- Drafted the Suffolk Resolves
- Organized Boycotts
The Treaty of Paris in (1783) included these countries
- The New United States
- England
What did the Townsend Acts do:
Taxed:
- glass, paper, tea.
To fund British troops in the Colonies; for greater colonial control
The Results of Pontiac's Rebellion was:
The Ottowa Natives led a violent raid on/in the colonial frontier.
President Thomas Jefferson was elected in:
1800 (1801 - 1808)
The Battle of Saratoga is best known for:
Considered the "Turning Point" of the American Revolution, in favor of the Colonists.
The Alien and Sedition Acts do this:
- Allows The Government to deport non-American citizens.
- Outlawed seditious language against the Government.
- Democratic-Republicans attempted to nullify this act.
Describe economic measures taken by Parliament following the French & Indian War:
- Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Townsend Acts
- Tea Act
- Coercive Acts
The Whiskey Rebellion was a:
- protest of federal excise taxes, earmarked to pay the Revolutionary War debt.
The Proclamation of 1763 did this:
Limited the colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Shays rebellion was about:
- the ineffectiveness of the Articles of Confederation.
Name one popular essay written during the revolution for British Colonists.
Answers will vary.
Name two enlightenment thinkers:
- John Locke
- Jaques Rousseau
- Baron de Montesquieu
What did George Washington warn against in his Farewell Address?
- the Formation of political factions
- getting involved in foreign wars.
The X,Y,X which revolved around the Quasi-War was about:
Bribes, in an attempt to establish communications with France.
The Second Continental Congress did this:
Appointed: George Washington as commander of the Continental Army
Drafted: The Articles of Confederation
The Northwest Ordinance did the following:
- Outlined the process to become a state.
- prohibited Slavery.
- Outline plans for public education.
By People: How did the colonial society divide during the revolutionary war?
- Patriots
- Loyalists
- Minority of People who remained Neutral.
Name two specific areas where the revolution was fought:
- Concord
- Lexington
- Various Places
What took place at the Albany Plan of Union?
Colonial defense against Native attacks.
The Battle of Yorktown is best known for:
The Continental Army defeated the British with the help of the French Navy.
- General Cornwallis surrendered.
Name one acquisition of new territory that caused conflict?
- Pontiac's Rebellion
- Proclamation of 1763
Name facets of the government under the articles of confederation:
- unicameral government (one body)
- one state, one vote.
- nurses
- cooks
- seamstresses
- Daughters of Liberty
- Spies
Why was a new constitution proposed?
The Articles of Confederation were too weak.