Continental Congress
The document written at the First Continental Congress
What is the Declaration of Rights
Groups not addressed in the Declaration of Independence
What are women, Native Americans and African Americans
Patriot slogan against British taxes
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
Reason colonists attacked Canada at start of Revolution
What is the colonists wanted to make Canada the 14th colony?
Francis Marion's nickname
What is Swamp Fox?
Goal of the 1st Continental Congess
What is to state their concerns to the King?
Event that occurred on July 4, 1776
What is the 2nd Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence?
Reason Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764
What is pay the cost of the French and Indian War?
Reason the win at Trenton was important
What is the contracts of many soldiers were due to expire?
Land gained after the Revolution
What is land west of the colonies and east of the Mississippi River?
How the 2nd Continental Congress decides to handle the British
What is create the Continental Army?
Reason Common Sense reached a wide audience
What is it was written in language everyone could understand
Reason colonists were upset about the Stamp Act
What is it was the first direct tax on the colonists?
Reason Patriots struggled fighting battles at sea
What is naval fleet was too small to fight large battles against British?
Baron Friedrich Von Steuben's contribution to the war effort?
What is he trained them in military discipline?
Things colonists ask for in the Olive Branch Petition
What is stop hostilities with colonies and overturn the Intolerable Acts?
Reason the Declaration raised questions about slavery
What is slavery was not consistent with the message of the Declaration?
Reason Parliament repealed almost all of the Townshend Acts
What is to reduct tension with the colonies
Reason Saratoga was a turning point in the war
What is the France and Spain entered the war on the Patriot side?
Reason Patriots defeated British at Yorktown
What is Cornwallis moved his troops to maintain communication with his Navy and got trapped?
Actions of the 1st Continental Congress
What is continue boycotts, train militia, create Declaration of Rights and meet again in 1775.
Ideas in the Beliefs section of the Declaration
What is unalianable rights such as life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and government is created to protect those rights and can be altered or abolished if government doesn't fulfill the "contract" between them and the people?
Ways colonists were punished under the Intolerable Acts
What is Mass charter was cancelled, Boston harbor was closed and governor had to approve meetings of colony's legislature?
Reason France's interest in the war was financially important to Patriots
What is French provided monetary aid once they believed the Patriots could win?
Reasons the British set their sites on the South towards the end of the Revolution
What is couldn't get a final win in the North, and loyalists and slaves were abundant in the South?