History Test 2 - Notes

Front 1

Who was the author of Common Sense?

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Thomas Pain

Front 2

The date for the Boston Tea Party.

Back 2

1773

Front 3

The date of the Declaration of Independance.

Back 3

1776

Front 4

Date of the Treaty of Paris.

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1783

Front 5

Date of Saragota

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1777

Front 6

Year of the Second Continental Congress.

Back 6

1775

Front 7

Year of the Proclamation Line.

Back 7

1763

Front 8

Year of the First Continental Congress.

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1774

Front 9

Year of the Stamp Act Congress.

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1765

Front 10

Year of Yorktown.

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1781

Front 11

Who the the preacher of "Sinners in the hands of an angry God"?

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Johnathan Edwards

Front 12

African American Peot.

Back 12

Phillis Wheatly

Front 13

Who was the superintendent of finance for the Continental Congress?

Back 13

Robert Morris

Front 14

Who was the author of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies"?

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John Dickenson

Front 15

Missionary to the Indians.

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David Brainered

Front 16

An English evangelist-

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George Whitefield

Front 17

Agreement that showed the spiritual decline of New England.

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Halfway Covenant

Front 18

Men who helped produce the Great Awakening. ( 2 people )

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Johnathan Edwards, George Whitefield

Front 19

What theory said that the colony exists for the benefit of the mother country.

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Mercantilism

Front 20

Whichs acts laid down the basic laws trade with the colonies from 1650 to 1696?

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The Navagation Acts

Front 21

Who spoke out against the Sugar Act?

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Jame Otis

Front 22

Who became the new Hanover King of England in 1760?

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George III

Front 23

Who is given credit for organizing the Sons of Liberty?

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Samuel Adams

Front 24

Which act prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains?

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Prodomation of 1773

Front 25

Which act was so effectively boycotted that it was soon repealed?

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Stamp Act

Front 26

Which young Irishman defended the colonial cause in Parliment?

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Edmund Barke

Front 27

Which act forced the colonists to house British soldiers?

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Bordering Act

Front 28

Which act cut in half the tax on raw sugar?

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Sugar Act

Front 29

Who became the new Chancellor of the Exchequer and caused another crisis with the colonies?

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Charles Townshend

Front 30

Who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys?

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Ethan Allen

Front 31

The "shot heard around the world" was fired at -

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Lexington

Front 32

Name three British generals.

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Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and John Burgoyne.

Front 33

Riders who warned of the British advance on Lexington. ( 3 people )

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William Dawes, Paul Revere, and Dr. Samuel Prescott.

Front 34

Where did the First and Second Continental Congress meet?

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Philadelphia

Front 35

Which act stopped all trade with the colonies?

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Prohibitory Act

Front 36

General who won the Battle troops in Boston.

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Thomas Gage

Front 37

Prussian drillmaster -

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Baron von Steuben

Front 38

Polish Jew financier -

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Haym Solomon

Front 39

French aide to General Washington -

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Marquis De Lafayette

Front 40

Patriot who was hanged for spying.

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Nathan Hale

Front 41

General who conquered Philadelphia.

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William Howe

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Patriot who captured Fort Ticonderoga.

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Ethan Allen

Front 43

King George III hired German mercenaries called ______ to fight the colonists.

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Hessians

Front 44

General who surrendered to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga.

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John Burgoyne

Front 45

Where did General Washington and his troops camp during the winter of 1777-1778?

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Valley Forge

Front 46

Where did General Cornwallis surrender to General Washington at?

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Yorktown, Virginia

Front 47

Battle that was the turning point of the war.

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Saratoga

Front 48

What American war hero seized two forts along Stony Point, on the Hudson River.

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Anthony Wayne

Front 49

Who was the brave captain of the Bonhomme Richard?

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John Paul Jones

Front 50

Where did General Washington capture nearly a thousand Hessian troops on Christmas day in 1776.

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Trenton

Front 51

Who proposed the resolution for independence?

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Richard Henry Lee

Front 52

Who led the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

Front 53

Which European country became our best ally in the War for Independence?

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France

Front 54

Where do the British surrender to end the War for Independence?

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Yorktown

Front 55

Who captured the frontier outposts of Kaskaskia and Vincennes.

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George Rogers Clark

Front 56

Who was known as the "fighting Quaker"?

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Nathanael Greene