Chapter 5

Question 1

George Washington

Answer 1

APUSH note cards #75 & #89

Question 2

Fort Duquesne

Answer 2

• part of a land dispute during the French and Indian War

- French claimed that Ft. Duquesne was part of their territory. Americans were making claims on the land.

Question 3

French and Indian War

Answer 3

1756-1763

APUSH note cards #47 and #51

Question 4

Seven Years’ War

Answer 4

another name for the French and Indian War

Question 5

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 5

• Pontiac, a chief Ottawa, convened a meeting of the nearby tribes.
• Attacked British forts across the region. Most of the Ohio country fell into the hands of the Natives, but the British fought back.

Question 6

The Proclamation Line of 1763

Answer 6

APUSH note card #54

Question 7

Paxton Boys

Answer 7

• In the town of Paxton, a group of settlers decided to take matters into their own hands with the Indians.
• December 1763, the Paxton Boys attacked a Delaware village.
• Many colonists began to see the Native Americans as one group of people as opposed to different tribes.

Question 8

George III

Answer 8

King of England at the time of the American Revolution

Question 9

Loyalists

Answer 9

About 1/5 of the colonists remained Loyalists, Americans who wanted to maintain loyal ties to Great Britain and who would oppose the War.

Question 10

Rousseau and Montesquieu

Answer 10

• Revolutionary leaders read these works

- They advocated a commitment to liberty and the need to overthrow unjust authorities

Question 11

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 11

APUSH note card #52

Question 12

impressment

Answer 12

was when the British kidnapped likely sailors from merchants ships or ports and forced them into naval service

Question 13

Stamp Act of 1765

Answer 13

APUSH note card #57

Question 14

Townshend duties of 1767

Answer 14

APUSH note card #61

Question 15

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 15

APUSH note card #64

Question 16

Intolerable Acts

Answer 16

APUSH note card #65

Question 17

Declaratory Act

Answer 17

APUSH note card #58

Question 18

Sons of Liberty

Answer 18

a secret organization that sent delegates to all the colonies to create a kind of underground resistance to the taxes

Question 19

Boston Massacre

Answer 19

APUSH note card #63

Question 20

Sugar Act of 1764

Answer 20

APUSH note card #55

Question 21

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 21

They began to make their own cloth rather than purchasing English textile.

Question 22

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 22

APUSH note card #60

Question 23

First Continental Congress

Answer 23

APUSH note card #67

Question 24

Quebec Act

Answer 24

-Assigned all lands north and west of the Ohio River to the British controlled Province of Quebec.
This took Indian policy out of the hands of frontier agitators or royal governors along the cost.

Question 25

Bunker Hill

Answer 25

APUSH note card #70

Question 26

Boston Tea Party

Answer 26

APUSH note card #64

Question 27

Thomas Paine

Answer 27

APUSH note card #71 (“Common Sense”)

Question 28

Lexington and Concord

Answer 28

APUSH note card #68

Question 29

Second Continental Congress

Answer 29

APUSH note card #69

Question 30

Treaty of Paris

Answer 30

APUSH note cards #50 & #79

• Britain gained dominance of India
• Spain ceded Florida to England

Question 31

Articles of Confederation

Answer 31

APUSH note card #74

Question 32

Currency Act of 1764

Answer 32

Prohibited the colonies from issuing their own paper money as legal tender for public or private debts to Britain

Question 33

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 33

APUSH note card #76

Question 34

Declaration of Independence

Answer 34

APUSH note card #73

Question 35

Valley Forge

Answer 35

A very long, cold winter.

• American army was exhausted, cold and hungry.
• Was a delay in the arrival of supplies, many soldiers found themselves without shoes or good clothing.
• Prussian officer Baron Von Steuben was able to train the American military.
• French officer Marquis de Lafayette also helped train the army.

Question 36

Fort Pitt

Answer 36

• became present day Pittsburgh
• Fort was established by Congress in 1783 with the US Army to help with the power vacuum created by the British leaving as a result of the Treaty of Paris

Question 37

George Grenville

Answer 37

• first minister of England under King George III
• tried to ensure peace in North America with the Native Americans
• Proclamation Line - directed any colonists who settled west of the crest of the Appalachian Mountains to remove themselves

Question 38

Ethan Allen

Answer 38

• backwoods rebel
• leader of the Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys since 1770
• challenged royal authority in Vermont
• challenged Benedict Arnold of Connecticut
• Captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain on May 10, 1775

Question 39

Haitian Revolution

Answer 39

• 1791
• slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (modern Haiti) rebelled
• 500,000 slaves vs 40,000 French owners
• free black, Toussaint L’Overture led the rebels
• free Republic of Haiti was proclaimed in 1804

Question 40

Voltaire

Answer 40

• French philosopher

- advocated a commitment to liberty and the need to overthrow unjust authorities

Question 40

Patrick Henry

Answer 40

• respected Virginian
• opposed the Constitution
• loyalty was to the sovereign state of Virginia

Question 41

Dunmore’s Proclamation

Answer 41

• also known as Dunmore’s “Emancipation Proclamation”
• historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British Colony of Virginia
• The proclamation declared martial law and promised freedom for slaves of American revolutionaries who left their owners and joined the royal forces.

Question 42

Hessians

Answer 42

-German troops who fought in the Revolutionary War on the side of Great Britain; Hessian troops were almost all paid mercenaries