Events/Dates
This battle was fought on February 14, 1779 near Washington, Georgia. A group of Loyalists were camping on the river and were surprised and defeated by a Patriot militia.
What is the Battle of Kettle Creek?
This was the new country's first form of government.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
Colonists who wanted their independence from Great Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
The stamp act did this.
What is taxed raised the price of documents and printed goods?
This second form of government was written to replace the Articles of Confederation and is still used in our country today.
What is the US Constitution?
She was a Revolutionary war Heroine. She acted as a spy for the Patriots and is even said to have taken up arms against British soldiers.
Who was Nacy Hart ?
Those colonists who were loyal to the British crown.
Who are the loyalists ?
July 4, 1776
What is the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted or passed?
Created a weak national government, did not allow Congress to collect taxes or enforce laws.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
He was the only African-American to fight in the Battle of Kettle Creek. He was a slave who was awarded his freedom and land for his bravery.
Who was Austin Dabney?
The three branches of the U.S. government created by the U.S. Constitution.
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
A Polish general who fought with the Patriots (Continental Army). He was killed at the Siege of Savannah. He has a square and a fort named after him in Savannah, Georgia.
Who is Casimir Pulaski?
Allowed states to count three-fifths of their slaves for their representation in Congress (House of Representatives).
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Georgia's delegates to the Second Continental Congress and signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
The British/Loyalists and the Patriots fought to keep control over this port city, but ultimately the British kept control until the end of the war.
What is Savannah?
Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States.
What was the Great Compromise?
The delegates from Georgia at the Constitutional Convention. They signed the U.S. Constution.
Who is Abraham Baldwin and William Few?
What is levy?