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What is a loyalist?
What was the First Battle of the American Revolution?
Battle of Lexington and Concord.
What was the Stamp Act?
A tax on stamps that went toward paying off the war debt.
Who created the Bicameral Legislature?
Abraham Baldwin
What are the 3 parts of the Declaration of Independence?
What is a Patriot?
Someone who favored independence.
What was created at the Second Continental Congress?
Declaration of Independence.
What were the goals of Proclamation of 1763?
Make peace with American Indians, trade with the American Indians, and to establish forts.
How are the Senate and House of Representatives determined?
Senate- Each state has 2 representatives
HOR- Determined by population
What is the Preamble?
The introduction to the Declaration of Independance.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the outcome of the Siege of Savannah?
French and patriot troops lost, and the city of Savannah remained under British control.
Why were the colonists taxed? Why did this make them upset?
To pay off the French and Indian War debt. They were not represented in Britian Congress.
What did the Great Compromise develop? Describe what it is.
A bicameral legislature. Congress would be split into the Senate and House of Representatives.
The second section of the Declaration of Independance that is the complaints towards King George III.
Grievances
What was created to replace the Articles of Confederation?
The U.S. Constitution.
What was a result of the Battle of Kettle Creek? Who led the troops?
Boosted morale amongst Georgia patriots. Elijah Clarke and John Dooly.
Why was there tension between France and Great British?
There was competition because of Fur Trading.
Was the Articles of Confederation successful? Why or why not?
It was not successful because the national government was too weak.
What did the Declaration of Independence declare?
The Colonists were free from Great Britian.
Who were the Georgians that signed the U.S. Constitution?
William Few and Abraham Baldwin.
What was the result of the First Continental Congress? Did Georgia go? Why/Why not?
Boycott British goods. Georgia did not go because their governor was a loyalist.
What document ended the French and Indian War? What did it say?
Treaty of Paris 1763
France had to give up its North American territories. Spain gave Florida to Britian.
What document was created by colonial representatives as a plan for government after the American Revolution?
Articles of Confederation.
Who were the 3 Georgia Signers?
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.