Road to Revolution
The conflict involving Great Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley Territory
What is the French & Indian War?
The reason that the Stamp Act did not affect Georgia as much as it did other colonies.
What is Georgia was more dependent on trade and association with Great Britain than other colonies?
British colonists who wanted to remain under British control
What are Loyalists?
The battle that took place in Georgia's backcountry
What is Kettle Creek?
The overall main reason that the Articles of Confederation were ineffective
What is they created a weak central government?
The reason Georgians were not interested in new lands gained by the British
What is most Georgians lived in Savannah and along the coast of Georgia and depended on the coast for their livelihoods?
The only colony in North America to purchase some stamps after passage of the Stamp Act.
What is Georgia?
British colonists who wanted to be independent from Great Britain.
What are Patriots?
What is the Siege of Savannah?
The set of laws that replaced the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitution?
This prevented colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Name the part of the Declaration of Independence:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
What is the preamble?
The reason more Georgians were Loyalists.
What is many Georgians were dependent on Great Britain and had been successful under British rule?
This side received a morale boost and supplies by winning the Battle of Kettle Creek.
What are the Patriots?
The main reason that there was no army and no ability to collect state debts
What is the legislature had no power to tax its citizens?
The reason colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is Britain wanted to avoid war with Indian tribes living west of the mountains?
Name the part of the Declaration of Independence:
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury"
What is the grievances?
The small group of Georgians who opposed the Stamp Act.
Who were the Liberty Boys?
This side captured Savannah in 1778 and held off a major siege against it in 1779, managing to maintain control of the city until the end of the war.
What are the Loyalists?
The amount of states needed to approve amendments to the Articles of Confederation
What is all 13?
The reason for the Stamp Act and other taxes placed on the colonies by the British Parliament.
What is Britain was bankrupt from fighting a long war and wanted the colonies to help pay off war debts?
Name this part of the Declaration of Independence:
"That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved"
What is the declaration?
The alternate names for Patriots & Loyalists
What are Whigs & Tories?
One of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution
What is the Siege of Savannah?
An effect of all states being able to have their own currency.
What is states could place tariffs on each other, no regulation of money, made trade difficult?