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26 Cards in this Set
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Lexington and Concord was in what year?
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1775
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Where did the second Continental Congress meet?
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Philadelphia
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What happened when congress drafted appeals to the British people?
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They were spurned
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What was the most important action of the congress?
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Selecting George Washington to head the army in besieging Boston.
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What were George Washington's qualities?
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Leadership, strength of character, patience, courage, self-discipline, and a sense of justice
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What was a factor in George Washington's selection?
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Politics, the fact that he was Virginian, and rich
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Why was America so divided?
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Americans were emphatically affirming loyalty to the king as well as shooting down British soldiers.
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Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured who?
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British Garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point
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Olive Branch Petition?
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Professed American loyalty to the crown and begging the king to prevent further hostilities. King George III slammed the door on all hope of reconciliation after the battle of Bunker Hill
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Conquest of Canada did what?
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Contradicted the claim of the colonists that they were merely fighting defensively for a redress of grievances
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Many Americans considered themselves what?
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Part of a transatlantic community in which the mother country of Britain played a leading role.
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Define Republic
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Where power flowed from the people flowed from the people themselves, not from a corrupt and despotic monarch.
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All government officials should derive power from where?
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Popular consent
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Most Americans considered citizen "virtue" what?
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Fundamental to any successful republican government
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People in a republic needed to what?
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sacrifice personal self-interest to the public good.
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Tyrannous misdeeds of George III included what?
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Imposing taxes without consent, dispensing with trial by jury, abolishing valued laws, establishing a military dictatorship, maintaining standing armies in peacetime, cutting off trade, burning towns, hiring mercenaries, and inciting hostility among the Indians.
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Where did Loyalists flee to?
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Britain and northern Canada.
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How did former Loyalists reintegrate themselves into public life?
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By siding with the Federalist call for a strong central government and powerful executive.
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How many Loyalists volunteered for the British?
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Fifty thousand.
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When and where did Washington cross the Delaware?
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Trenton, December 1776
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London officials adopted an intricate scheme for capturing what in 1776?
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The Hudson River Valley
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Where was the World War being fought?
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Europe, North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia
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When was Georgia overrun?
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1778-1779
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What city fell in 1780?
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Charleston, South Carolina
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John Paul Jones
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A Scottish American naval officer
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How large was Cornwallis's surrendered force ?
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Seven thousand men strong.
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