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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 from these colonies? |
more than 3,000 miles away |
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How long a voyage is it from London to the colonies ? |
Two months |
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How did each colonial legislature bend their royal governors to their wall? |
By not voting the money for his salary until he came into terms with them |
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Which kind began to deal more firmly with the colonies? |
Britain |
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How did the colonists feel about the new taxes imposed by his king? |
They objected to them. |
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Why did the colonists see little need for the costly presence of British troops on North American soil? |
Since the French had been defeated and their power broken in the French & Indian War |
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In the New England Confederation, the settlements formed “ a league of friendship ” to defend themselves from whom? |
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 & their Native American allies. |
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Who offered the Albany Plan? |
Benjamin Franklin |
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What happened to the Albany Plan? |
It was turned down by the colonies & by the crown |
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What did the Stamp Act require? |
Use of tax stamps on all legal documents on certain agreements, and newspapers |
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What is a boycott? |
A refusal to boy 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 killing five, (Boston Massacre) |
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Describe the Boston Tea Party. |
Group of men (native Americans) boarded 3 ships in Boston harbor & dumped the cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade |
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How did the Parliament punish the colonists in the spring of 1774? |
New laws (intolerable acts) promoted widespread calls for meetings |
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What did the First Continental Congress send to Britain? |
Declaration of Rights |
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How did the British gov. react to the Declaration of Rights? |
Colonial discontent 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 gov. in place? |
Five fateful years |
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Who has the primary architect of the Declaration of Independence? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Two-thirds of the Declaration of Independence speaks of what? |
Of the “repeated injuries and usurpations” that led to the revolt of colonists |
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How many men signed the Declaration of Independence? |
56 men |
