Acts
Gave the British East India Company a monolopy on a certain good in the colonies.
Tea Act
British monarch during the Revolutionary War
King George III
Did the Declaration of Independence give a structure of American government?
yes or no
Bonus 100 points: List the structure (5 parts we discussed) of the Declaration of Independence
No
Bonus:
Preamble
Beliefs
Long list of grievances
Attempts to solve problems
Declaration of independence
Boston Tea Party (Year)
1773
What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
Revise the Articles of Confederation
Tax on officila papers such as newspapers, contracts, and playing cards.
Stamp Act
This Enlightenment philosopher's ideas inspired the content of the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
These terms are associated with what important document:
US would be free, sovereign, and independent!
Land boundaries: Mississippi River, Canada, Spanish Florida
Fishing rights
Release PoWs
British return all slaves they captured
US repay debts and restore Loyalist property
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech (month and year)
March 1775
Name one of the three disadvantages that the Americans encountered during the Revolutionary War.
Disadvantages
Division: ⅓ of Americans remained loyal to the Crown and opposed the Revolution
Strong opponent: Up against the greatest military power and most powerful empire in the world
Raising money: British money vs. American money
Required Americans to house and feed British soldiers.
Quartering Act
This man led a rebellion which helped the framers to call a convention to address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
Bonus 100 points: Why did this happen?
Daniel Shays
Bonus Answer: As a result of Massachusetts taxes combined with the financial loses from the Revolutionary War.
These two battles in April 1775 marked the first shots fired between colonial militia and British troops, beginning the American Revolution.
Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord (month and year)
April 1775
Why did the First Continental Congress decide to meet in 1774? What was it in response to?
The American colonists wanted to respond together to the Intolerable Acts (AKA Coercive Acts) that Britain had passed to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
Import tax on a variety of objects such as paper and glass.
Townshend Acts
Name the author's of these three primary sources in order beginning with the first mentioned:
1 - "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
2 - Common Sense
3 - Declaration of Independence (primary/main author)
1 - Patrick Henry
2 - Thomas Paine
3 - Thomas Jefferson
Name one strength and one weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
Strength:
Northwestern Ordinance of 1787 Process for eventual statehood
Weaknesses:
No power to tax or raise an army: Congress could request funds and troops, but states could refuse; highlighted during Shays’s Rebellion.
No regulation of commerce: Could not enforce trade agreements or maintain a uniform currency, making interstate and international trade difficult.
Weak central authority: Lack of courts or executive power led to ineffective governance and limited enforcement of national policies.
Common Sense (month and year)
January 1776
The men at the Constituional Convention agreed that the new government should be _____________ in nature.
What does that word mean in this sense?
rebuplican in nature
republic - consent of the governed
Name in order:
1 - Response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston.
2 - Asserted the British right to legislate the colonies in all cases.
1 - Coercive (British name)/Intolerable (American name) Acts
2 - Declaratory Act (after Stamp Act was repealed)
This British General surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown.
General Charles Cornwallis
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Answer: Northwestern Ordinance of 1787 – how the land the colonies gained through the war (the Midwest) would be settled and incorporated/formed into states
Restated: Process for eventual statehood
Also:Prohibited slavery
Also: Favored public education - “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind”
Treaty of Paris (End of Revolutionary War) - (year)
Constitutional Convention - (year)
Treaty of Paris 1783
Constitutional Convention 1787
Name ALL three advantages the Americans during the American Revolution. We took notes on these.
Advantages
Home-field: Playing defense on their home shores
Exceptional leader: George Washington
British enemies in Europe: the enemy of my enemy is my friend (said France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic)