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Met to discuss outbreak of fighting, declared Indenpendence.
2nd Contintental Congress
Colonists who supported independence.
Patriot
Colonist who supported the British.
Loyalist
Soldiers for hire.
Mercenaries
British Army Defeated with French help, ends fighting.
Battle of Yorktown
Both France and England claimed __________________.
A. Florida
B. The Ohio Valley
B. The Ohio Valley
Which two European countries remained in North America after the treaty of Paris?
A. France & Spain
B. England & Spain
B. England & Spain
The British are left with this after the French and Indian War.
A. debt
B. Texas
A. Debt
The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to _______________.
A. Punish the colonists
B. Avoid conflict with the Indians
B. Avoid conflict with the Indians.
The British took advantage of the fact that all of France's supplies had to pass through ________________.
A. New Orleans
B. Quebec
B. Quebec
Citizens serving as temporary soldiers.
Militia
Taxed all paper products.
Stamp Act
To refuse to buy goods as a form of protest.
Boycott
To abolish, or do away with, a law.
Repeal
Supported violent and non-violent protests of taxes.
Sons of Liberty
The Treaty of Paris awarded Britian all the land ________________________.
A. east of the Appalachian Mountains
B. To the Mississippi River
B. To the Mississippi River
British troops killed five colonists in _________________________.
A. The Boston Tea Party
B. The Boston Massacre
B. The Boston Massacre
The British responded to the Boston Tea Party by ____________________.
A. Carrying out the Boston Massacre
B. Passing the Intolerable Acts
B. Passing the Intolerable Acts
Colonist were upset over the taxes because they were not represented in ________________________.
A. Their colonial legislature
B. Parliament
B. Parliament
The Coercive, or Intolerable Acts involved which of the following actions.
A. citizens were forced to provide food & shelter to British soldiers
B. Colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
A. Citizens were forced to provide food & shelter to British soldiers.
The British attach Lexington & Concord to ________________________.
A. gain high ground
B. capture weapons & Patriot leadership
B. Capture weapons & Patriot leadership
The British evacuate Boston after American cannons arrive from _____________________.
A. New York
B. Ft. Ticonderoga
B. Ft. Ticonderoga
General Howe returns from Canada to the colonies and attacks ________________.
A. Boston
B. New York
B. New York
Washington fights back and attacks the Hessians on Dec. 27th, 1776 at ________________.
A. Bunker Hill
B. Trenton
B. Trenton
British General Burgoyne creates a plan to divide the colonies and isolate ________________________.
A. Georgia
B. New England
B. New England
Burgoyne's forces wait for Howe and St. Leger at _________________________.
A. Saratoga
B. Yorktown
A. Saratoga
The Continental Army faces a difficult winter in camp at _________________ but receives training for the following spring.
A. Saratoga
B. Valley Forge
B. Valley Forge
The French Navy assisted Washington at Yorktown by ______________________.
A. evacuating his troops
B. helping to trap the British army
B. Helping to trap the British army
The British give up on the war after the defeat of the largest British army in the colonies at
_____________________.
A. Trenton
B. Yorktown
B. Yorktown
The war ends with the Treaty of Paris giving the United States all the land to the ______________________.
A. Appalachian Mountains
B. Mississippi River
B. Mississippi River
British or Colonial
They must pay for their own defense.
British
British or Colonial
These soldiers are not protecting us, they're our enemies.
Colonial
British or Colonial
We won't buy any of their goods.
Colonial
British or Colonial
We have every right to move west of the Appalachians.
Colonial
British or Colonial
We have the right to make laws for them, no matter what they say.
British
When in the course of Human events it becomes necessary for a people to dissolve the political bands which connected them with another .....the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
When people decide to break their ties they should give good reason.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Governments are created by the people to protect their rights.
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it .....
Whenever a government violates our rights we should replace it.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries.... all having in direct object.... the establishment of an absolute tyranny ove these states.
The king has violated our rights many times and wants to establish a cruel government.
We, therefore, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be , Free and Independent States.
We say to the World that America is now its own Country.
Put in Order
British Pass taxes
Proclamation of 1763
Troops sent to Boston
Intolerable Acts
Colonists Protest
Proclamation of 1763
British Pass taxes
Colonists Protest
Troops sent to Boston
Intolerable Acts
Put in Order
Cornwallis surrenders
Saratoga
British leave Boston
Lexington & Concord
New York Falls
Lexington & Concord
British leave Boston
New York Falls
Saratoga
Cornwallis surrenders
What was Britain left with after the French and Indian War, how did they deal with the situation and how did the colonists react?
QOD
Who do you feel had the advantage in the Revolutionary War? Describe their strengths and their opponents weaknesses.
QOD
Describe the goal of Britsh General Burgoyne's plan for the war, how it was to be carried out, what the results were, and what was the effect of the battle?
QOD