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Question 1

Mercantilism

Answer 1

The trading system in which the mother country benefits, colonists were mad because they had to pay taxes on most items.

Question 2

Albany Plan of the Union

Answer 2

(1754) When the colonists started building alliances with other countries.

Question 3

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 3

A law that didn’t allow colonists to go past the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 4

Sugar Act

Answer 4

(1764)law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies

Question 5

Tea act

Answer 5

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - weakened colonial tea merchants jobs; led to the Boston Tea Party

Question 6

Boston Massacre

Answer 6

When colonists started insulting and hurting red coats. The red coats fired and killed 5 colonists. Crispus Attucks was the first one killed.

Question 7

Boston Tea Party

Answer 7

When American colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded 3 merchant ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea ($1.7m) into the water.

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troops in barns and empty houses

Question 9

Olive Branch petition

Answer 9

A petition to the king declaring peace. King George ignored it.

Question 10

What was the #1 cause of the American Revolution?

Answer 10

colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War

Question 11

What were the 2 major outcomes of the Second Continental Congress

Answer 11

Appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army, and formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, making the colonies free from England.

Question 12

Lexington & Concord

Answer 12

First battle that the shot was heard round the world.

Question 13

Saratoga

Answer 13

The turning point, the French joined.

Question 14

Valley Forge

Answer 14

The American army went under training and got stronger, many people died from diseases

Question 15

Yorktown

Answer 15

Cornwallis surrendered and ended the American Revolution

Question 16

Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 16

A treaty signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783. It ended the American Revolutionary War.

Question 17

George Washington

Answer 17

Commander of continental army

Question 18

Patrick Henry

Answer 18

Give speech saying, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Question 19

Mercy Otis Warren

Answer 19

Wrote many plays and poems against British. First woman historian. Helped start the committee of correspondence.

Question 20

Thomas Paine

Answer 20

Author of Common Sense which said colonists should get independence from Britain.

Question 21

Abigail Adams

Answer 21

Wife of John Adams. She wrote letters during the American revolution. Requested John Adams to “remember the ladies”

Question 22

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 22

French soldier inspired to come and fight by the Declaration of independence.

Question 23

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 23

Wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776

Question 24

James Armistead

Answer 24

Was a spy pretending to be a runaway slave that gave Washington many British war secrets.

Question 25

Gen. Charles Cornwallis

Answer 25

The British soldier who surrendered during the American Revolution.

Question 26

King George III

Answer 26

King of England

Question 27

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 27

Helped write Treaty of Paris 1783. Benjamin Franklin’s Join or Die became the first political cartoon

Question 28

John Paul Jones

Answer 28

He was known as the Father of the Navy. He defeated the British Navy during the American revolution. He says “I have not yet begun to fight.”

Question 29

Samuel Adams

Answer 29

Leader of Sons of Liberty