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24 Cards in this Set
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Who said: "We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Name the first settlement in the colonies |
Jamestown |
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How many miles was London to the colonies? |
More than 3,000 miles away |
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How long was a voyage from London to the colonies |
Nearly two months |
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How did each colonial legislature bed their royal governor's to do their will? |
By not voting the money for his salary until he came to terms with them |
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Which kind began to deal more firmly with the colonies? |
The British |
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How did the colonists feel about the new taxes being imposed by this king? |
They objected taxes being imposed by afar |
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Why did colonists see little need for the costly presence of British troops on North American soil? |
Because the French had been defeated and their will power broken by the French and Indian war |
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In the New England Confederation, the settlements formed a "league of friendship" to defend themselves against whom? |
The Native Americans |
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Why did the British Board of Trade call a meeting of seven northern colonies? |
To discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Indian allies |
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Who offered the Albany Plan? |
Benjamin Franklin |
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What happened to the Albany Plan? |
The representatives at the Albany meeting agreed but the colonies and the crown declined |
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What did the Stamp Act require? |
The use of tax stamps on all legal documents, certain business organizations, and on newspapers |
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What is a boycott |
A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services |
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What happened on March 5, 1770 |
British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd know as the Boston Massacre |
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Describe the Boston Tea Party. |
A group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped cargo into the sea to protest British control of sea trade |
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How did Parliament punish the colonists in the spring of 1774? |
They passed another Set of laws known as the Intolerable Acts |
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What did the First Continental Congress send to Britain? |
A Declaration of Rights |
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How did the British government react to the Declaration of Rights? |
With even stricter and more repressive measures |
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What had the Second Continental Congress become? |
The nation's first national government |
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How long was this new government in place? |
Five years |
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Who was the primary architect (writer) of the Declaration of Independence? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Two-thirds of the Declaration of Independence speaks of what? |
The repeated injuries and usurpations |
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How many men signed the Declaration of Independence? |
56 |
