French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
England Needs Money
Ice, Blood and Tea I
Ice, Blood and Tea II
Bloody Boston
Blood Spilled
War in th North
War in the South
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Most Native American tribes sided with which Nation during this War
France
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What event led to the Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
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What was the most important thing for England during this time period.
Raising money to pay off its debt from the French and Indian War
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How did the 13 colonies communicate with each other ?
Committees of Correspondence
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What happened on December 16, 1773
Boston Tea Party
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What were the colonial militia known as
Minutemen
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What did the 13 colonies do after the fighting at Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
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After leaving Boston, where did the British attack next
New York
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What major port city did the British capture in 1780
Charleston, South Carolina
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What famous American played an important role in causing the French and Indian War
George Washington
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What did the Proclamation do ?
Prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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What was the first major law Parliament passed that angered the colonists
The Stamp Act
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What were the Committees of Correspondence
Groups of important people in each colony that wrote to each other letting them know what was happening in their colony
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How did the colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party disguise themselves
As Mohawk Indians
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What were the first 2 battles between the colonists and the British
Lexington and Concord
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What was the Olive Branch petition
A letter from the Congress telling King George they were loyal subjects and just wanted their rights as Englishmen restored.
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What happened during the Battle of New York in the summer of 1776
British nearly destroy the Colonial Army, but the army manages to escape into New Jersey
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Who did most of the fighting in the southern colonies
Colonial militia, it was more a civil war than a revolutionary war
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What did George Washington do that led to the French and Indian War
He commanded a Virginia militia unit that attacked and killed a French diplomatic mission
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Why did King George issue the Proclamation
He was afraid that if the colonists kept moving westward, he would need to keep an army in North America to protect against the Indians, and that would be expensive
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How did the colonists respond to the Stamp Act
organizing a boycott against British goods
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According to the British, which organization was considered a terrorist group
The Sons of Liberty
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Name 3 things the Intolerable Acts did
Closed Port of Boston
Imposed Martial law
Disbanded the Massachusetts assemblies
Required citizens to house and feed British troops
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Why did the British march on Lexington and Concord
The capture weapons and to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams, the leaders of the Sons of Liberty
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What 2 things, other than the Olive Branch petition, did the Second Continental Congress, do in the summer of 1775
Adapt the militia around Boston as a Continental army
Appoint George Washington as commander of the new army
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What happened December 24-25, 1776
Battle of Trenton
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Who was the British General in charge of the southern British army
Lord Cornwallis
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How did the French and Indian War affect how colonists viewed the British
The Americans began to realize they were different than the British. In America, a person advanced because of their own merit, while in England, a person advanced based upon their family connections.
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How did the French and Indian War affect England financially
England was virtually bankrupt after the war with France
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Why was the Stamp Act repealed
Because the American boycott of British goods hurt British merchants and they petitioned Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act
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What happened on March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre
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What did the 13 Colonies do in response to the Intolerable Act
Convened the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
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Who fired the first shot of the American Revolutionary War
Nobody knows
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Who wrote Common Sense, and what was he arguing for
Thomas Paine, and for American Independence
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What happened at Trenton
Colonial army crosses back into New Jersey from Pennsylvania during a winter storm on Christmas Eve, and surprised the British Hessian troops at Trenton.
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Which 2 Generals did Washington send to lead the new colonial army in the south
Nathaniel Green and dan Morgan
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Explain "meritocracy v aristocracy"
In America, a person succeeded if they were smart and worked hard, no matter who their parents were. In England, a person succeeded if they came from a good family, even if they were stupid or lazy.
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Why did the Proclamation anger the colonists
The colonist believed they fought in the French and Indian War to remove the French from North America so the colonists could expand westward. They thought they fought and died for nothing.
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What slogan best describes the colonies reaction to the Stamp Act
"No taxation without representation"
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What happened to the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre
The were tried for murder in Boston, and found not guilty
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What 2 things did the First Continental Congress do
Agreed to boycott all British goods
instructed the colonies to start developing militia and stockpiling weapons
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Why was the first shot fired at Lexington called "the shot heard round the world"
Marked the beginning of democracy around the world
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
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What happened on October 7, 1777
Battle of Saratoga
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What were the 2 battles in South Carolina and North Carolina that greatly weakened the British Army
Cowpens and Guildford Courthouse
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Why did the colonists think the Stamp Act violated their rights
The Magna Carta said Englishman cannot be taxed without their permission, and that permission is through Parliament, but the colonies had no representatives in Parliament
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Why did John Adams, a leading Patriot and supporter of Independence, act as the lawyer for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
The Magna Carta gave all Englishmen the right to a fair trial, and stressed the rule of law, and Adams believed everybody in America, including British soldiers, had those rights.
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Why is Paul Revere famous
Midnight ride to alert the Minutemen the British were coming
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What happened to the British on the return to Boston
Attacked by militia all the way back, suffering heavy casualties
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The Declaration of Independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident."
What are these truths?
All men are created equal
They are given certain rights by god.
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Why was the Battle of Trenton a major turning point in the Revolutionary War
It convinced many of the soldiers to stay in the army, and it caused more people to join the army because they thought the colonists could win the war
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What was the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War
Yorktown
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Paul Revere
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Why was the colonists capture of Fort Ticondaroga in New York important for the colonial militia besieging Boston
It provided them with canons and the British were forced to surrender Boston without a fight
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What happened to the British when they returned to Boston
The colonial militia surrounded Boston trapping the British in Boston
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What does "popular sovereignty" mean
That political power is in the people, and the people decide on the type of government
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Why was the Battle of Saratoga a major turning point in the Revolutionary War
It caused the French to join the American side
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Why did the British lose the final Battle of the Revolutionary War
At Yorktown, the french fleet defeated the British fleet preventing its retreat, and Washington and French troop had marched south from New York and surrounded the British at Yorktown.
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Where did the British attack the colonial militia in an attempt to break the siege of Boston
Bunker Hill
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What does "government as a social contract" mean
People give power to the government in exchange for the government protecting their natural rights
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What is the irony behind the Declaration of Independence
"All men" did not include woman, blacks or Native Americans