Class 7

Question 1

To which colony were directed the coercitive acts? (intolerable acts)

Answer 1

Massachussets

Question 2

What is considered by John Adams as a breaking point?

Answer 2

Boston, one of the most imp commercial port in the Atlantic, was shut down but the gouvernement

Question 3

Ex of the coercive acts?

Answer 3

Boston Port Bill
Quartering act
Quebec Act
etc

Question 4

Why did the Quebec act bother the colonies?

Answer 4

It gave the Province of quebec territories once claimed by the 13 colonies (ex: Ohio Valley)
The civil law (originally French) supplanted the English property law in civil matters

Question 5

What’s the context surrounding the First Continental Congress of 1774?

Answer 5

Conflicts between the colonies had been going on for decades
They had all agree they have to decide on a collective response to the acts

Question 6

T or F: in the First continental congress, people other than radicals were speaking of Independence

Answer 6

False, they only wanted to solve the problem

Question 7

Were colonists pro-monarchs?

Answer 7

Yes, most of them! They just had a problem with the Parliament

Question 8

What did the Plan of Union propose?

Answer 8

Creation of a pan-colonial Parliament were a president would be elected ans the colonies could determine their own faith

Question 9

What colony was mostly fighting in the battles of Concord and Lexington?

Answer 9

Massachussets, they had declared a state of rebellion

Question 10

What’s the result of the second continental congress?

Answer 10

Colonies HAD to come together (creation of united colonies)
Washington is chosen as commander of this union (virginian to show it was a matter for ALL colonies)

Question 11

What was said by Dunmore’s declaration?

Answer 11

Any slave of a patriot (IN VIRGINIA) who wishes to enlist in the war would be free after the War.

Question 12

100 000 slaves tried to enlist after DUnmor’s Proclamation, it was the biggest…

Answer 12

manumission of american enslaved people before the civil war

Question 13

What city is the British center of command during the war of independence?

Answer 13

NY

Question 14

What convinces the French to join the War?

Answer 14

IN the north, Americans win their first major battles

Question 15

T F: it is still possible to be moderate after the declaration of independence

Answer 15

False, it is rather difficult to be moderate

Question 16

How was the war in the South?

Answer 16

BLOODY
Britain wants to fight the French mostly and protect its colonies

Question 17

Was is the Yorktown campaign?

Answer 17

Washington commands the attack of the Cornwall forces by the American and the French.

Question 18

What was the result of the Yorktown campaign?

Answer 18

American win and Cornwall army surrenders

Question 19

What were the French motives to get involved in the War of american independence?

Answer 19

Desire for revenge after the 7 years war
MAINLY: Strategy was to weaken British power in the Americas

Question 20

T or F: Without the French help, Americans would’ve had a chance of winning.

Answer 20

False, the French NAvy particularly was of essential help/

Question 21

Who took the heaviest casualties during at the SIege of Savannah (georgia)?

Answer 21

Les Chasseurs-volontaires de Saint-Domingue (regiment de personnes de couleur)

Question 22

With who did the Indian forces ally with during the war of Independence?

Answer 22

The French! (against Britain and EIC)

Question 23

T or F: After peace was declared, battles stil went on in the Indian Ocean.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

What country joins France and Spain against Britain?

Answer 24

The Netherlands, because Britains has broken their neutrality

Question 25

T or F: The war of American independence was the first war were Britain had no allies.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Who is le Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 26

Main liaison between American and French forces
Imports the ideas of American revolution to France

Question 27

Is it usual to take up employment in foreign armies?

Answer 27

Nope, Baron vonSteuben is an example as he joins the French army

Question 28

T F: Indigenous peoples were all on the side of Britain

Answer 28

False, there were indigenous peoples on both sides

Question 29

How did the British loose?

Answer 29

• Isolation in british diplomacy
• Overestimation of the Loyalist sentiment.
• War aims were unclear at the beginning
• Lack of alignment over the war’s objectives in the British command

Question 30

What was the purpose of Carlisle Peace commission?

Answer 30

Make peace with the colonies to focus on the war with France.
The commision was very generous: basically what will correspond to a dominion status.
—-> This proposal had been made 3 years before, it probably would have passed.