French and Indian War
What did George Washington attack that began the French and Indian War?
French diplomatic mission in the Ohio River Valley. Fort Necessity and Duquesne.
This 1763 British law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Washington crossed this river on Christmas night in 1776 before attacking the Hessians at Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
This group was created to help unite the colonies and coordinate their resistance to Britain.
What is the Continental Congress?
This was the major conflict between Britain and France in North America that ended in 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act led to the Boston tea party
What is the Tea Act?
This 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired on a group of colonists in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This early American victory occurred shortly after Washington crossed the Delaware River.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
These two Americans were sent to France in 1777 to seek French support.
Who are Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
After France lost most of its North American territory, to Spain who gained control of...
the land west of the Mississippi River.
This act(s) was a direct result of the Boston Tea party
Intolerable acts
This Patriot lawyer defended the British soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
Why was the American victory at Saratoga especially important?
It became a turning point and helped convince France to become an ally of the Americans
During the American Revolution, women contributed to the war effort in many ways. Name at least two roles women played.
Women managed farms and businesses, made supplies, cared for soldiers, boycotted British goods, and worked as spies for the patriots
Britain needed to raise this after the French and Indian War because the war had been extremely expensive.
What is revenue/money to pay war debts?
Although the Tea Act lowered the price of tea, colonists still opposed it because...
they believed Parliament had no right to tax the colonies without colonial representation. It also did not change in the Intolerable acts.
How did John Adams defend the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre?
He argued they had fired because they were being attacked by a mob of colonists with snowballs, ice, and clubs
Why did Americans struggle to fight the British at sea?
The Americans did not have a strong Continental Navy, while Britain had the powerful Royal Navy
African Americans participated in the American Revolution in several ways. Describe at least two roles they played.
African Americans served as soldiers, sailors, laborers, and workers for both the American and British sides. British promised freedom for enlistment in the military.
This was one major way the French and Indian War helped create tensions that eventually led to the American Revolution.
Britain began taxing and controlling the colonies more heavily to pay its war debts
Colonists were angry about the Proclamation of 1763 because...
It prevented them from settling west when they felt they had earned it following the French and Indian War. They thought it was a form of control by the British parliament and King George III.
What did the establishment of the Continental Congress do for the colonies?
United the colonies and allowed them to send representatives with voting rights to meet.
Why did general Cornwallis choose Yorktown as a place to establish his army's position?
Yorktown was on a peninsula and provided access to a harbor where Cornwallis hoped to receive support from the British Navy?
Explain how the United States' government changed from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including the rights the Framers wanted to protect.
What is the Articles of Confederation created a weak national government, the Constitution created a stronger federal government with separated powers and checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights protected individual liberties such as freedom of speech, self-governance, independence, etc?