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47 Cards in this Set
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Albany Conference |
Iroquois refused alliance but offered support to the British |
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Albany Plan of Union |
Plan to unite the colonies in a federal government |
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Who won the French and Indian War? |
British |
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What formally ended the French and Indian War? |
Treaty of Paris |
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What is the name of the document that said colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains? |
Proclamation of 1763 |
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What was the first direct tax on colonists? |
Stamp Act |
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What did the Stamp Act Congress issue? |
declaration that taxation depends on representation |
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What is a nonimportation agreement? |
a pledge by merchants not to buy imported goods from a particular source |
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What were the Townshend Acts? |
Revenue Act and Sugar Act |
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What is a search warrant that enables customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling? |
writs of assistance |
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What was the name of the streetfight that led to a shooting of a colonist by a British soldier in 1770? |
Boston Massacre |
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What right did the Gaspee affair violate? |
right to a trial by a jury of their peers |
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What is a committee of correspondence? |
committee organized in each colony to communicate with, aid, and unify the colonies |
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What was the Boston Tea Party? |
secret gathering of 150 men on the Boston harbor to throw boxes of tea overboard in protest of the tea tax |
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What did the First Continental Congress urge colonists to do? |
boycott British goods |
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Who were the minutemen? |
companies of civilian soldiers that boasted they were ready to fight at a minute's notice |
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Who were the Patriots? |
people who believed the British king was a tyrant |
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Who were the Loyalists? |
people who were still loyal to the king |
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What did the Battle of Lexington begin? |
British were marching to Concord to seize the militia's supply when they were met by 70 minutemen in a field in Lexington |
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Why did the Battle of Bunker Hill build American confidence? |
it made colonists believed they could beat the British army |
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Who was the commander of the Continental Army? |
George Washington |
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What was the Olive Branch petition? |
document the colonists sent to the king stating they were still loyal to the British crown and asked him to call off the hostilities |
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Who wrote Common Sense? |
Thomas Paine |
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What was Common Sense about? |
monarchies are corrupt |
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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When did the colonies declare their independence from Britain? |
July 4, 1776 |
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What is guerilla warfare? |
fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes |
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British troops were disciplined and ____________. |
well-trained
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The Continental Army was poorly equipped and ____________________. |
inexperienced |
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General Howe wanted to convince Americans that their cause was ____________________. |
hopeless |
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Who was the first country to recognize the U.S. as an independent state? |
France |
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Who was the American spy who was caught and hung by the British? |
Nathan Hale |
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Which Native American tribes sided with the British during the Revolution? |
Cherokee and Iroquois |
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What was the greatest American defeat of the revolution? |
surrender at Charleston, South Carolina |
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What is the name of the battle where colonists destroyed the British army in the Carolina backcountry? |
Battle of King's Mountain |
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Who helped the colonists defeat the British at the Battle of Yorktown? |
France |
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What treaty formally ended the Revolution? |
Treaty of Paris |
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Where did the treaty make the official western border of the U.S.? |
Mississippi River |
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What is a form of government where the power resides with a body of citizens entitled to vote? |
republic |
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How did John Adams believe the legislature should be divided? |
a senate and an assembly |
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Who were voting rights extended to after the Revolution? |
white men who paid taxes |
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What advances did women make after the revolution? |
more women learned to read and schools for girls were founded |
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How were former slaves discriminated against after the Revolution? |
they could only get low-level jobs |
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What is voluntary freeing of slaves? |
manumission |
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Where did Loyalists in the U.S. go after the Revolution? |
British North America |
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Describe 3 actions by Great Britain that angered the colonists to the point of rebellion. |
taxes, writs of assistance, Boston Massacre |
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How did America develop a unique cultural identity after the war? |
a new form of government, ideas of equality eroded class barriers, American folklore, and they had a common enemy |
