Declaration of Independence

Question 1

Who fought in French and Indian War?

Answer 1

France and Britain

Question 2

Why were France and Britain fighting?

Answer 2

Land

Question 3

Results of French and Indian war?

Answer 3

Mass destruction of cities and have long lasting effects on a country’s economy

Question 4

Proclamation Line of 1763

Answer 4

issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years’ War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.

Question 5

Ohio River Valley

Answer 5

a 981-mile long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.

Question 6

George Washington

Answer 6

an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797

Question 7

Mercantilism

Answer 7

a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.

Question 8

End of salutary neglect

Answer 8

1763 with the conclusion of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years’ War

Question 9

What does the Ben Franklin’s cartoon mean?

Answer 9

Illustrates Benjamin Franklin’s warning to the British colonies in America “join or die” and exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives

Question 10

Why did BF’s cartoon become more popular later on? It later became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

Answer 10

It later became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

Question 11

Sugar Act

Answer 11

Passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown

Question 12

Stamp Act

Answer 12

also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies

Question 13

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 13

also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York City in the colonial Province of New York

Question 14

The Declaratory Act

Answer 14

stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”

Question 15

Townshend Acts

Answer 15

initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

Question 16

The Tea Act

Answer 16

granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.

Question 17

Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

Answer 17

a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.No taxation without representation is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain.

Question 18

Sons of Liberty/Daughters of Liberty

Answer 18

Helped organize colonist dissent and resistance to British policies.

Question 19

Boston Tea Party

Answer 19

an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.

Question 20

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Answer 20

a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

Question 21

First Continental Congress

Answer 21

Convened in Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774.

Question 22

Second Continental Congress

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the late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.

Question 23

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 23

written in 1775, was the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American Colonists and to settle their differences amicably.

Question 24

Midnight rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes

Answer 24

On April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren learned through Boston’s revolutionary underground that British troops were preparing to cross the Charles River and march to Lexington, presumably to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

Question 25

Battles of Lexington and Concord

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some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.

Question 26

Who was the author of declaration

Answer 26

Thomas Jefferson

Question 27

4 foundational principals of Dec of Ind

Answer 27

God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Question 28

natural rights

Answer 28

Those that are not dependent on the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and are therefore universal and inalienable

Question 29

d. Identify the 4 parts of the Declaration of Independence:

Answer 29

a preamble A list of grievances, a formal declaration of independence, and signatures.

Question 30

Know the differences between the Loyalists vs Patriots

Answer 30

They hated each other and fought a lot. Loyalists were loyal to England and Patriots wanted independence from England

Question 31

Where did Loyalists and Patriots live

Answer 31

L-Backcountry
P-Lowcountry

Question 32

What happened to the loyalists at the end of the war

Answer 32

simply left America.

Question 33

George Washington,

Answer 33

first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and farmer.

Question 34

Continental Army

Answer 34

the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775 by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia after the war’s outbreak.

Question 35

Battle of Saratoga

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marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans, significantly supported by the French, over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Question 36

Battles of Princeton and Trenton

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(December 26, 1776–January 3, 1777) and are notable as the first successes won by the Revolutionary general George Washington in the open field.

Question 37

Winter at Valley Forge

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Unsanitary conditions, and shortages of food and blankets contributed to the disease and exhaustion which continually plagued the camp.

Question 38

Ist Battle of Charleston

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was an engagement near Charleston, South Carolina that took place April 7, 1863

Question 39

2nd Battle of Charleston

Answer 39

Took place during the American Civil War in the late summer of 1863 between a combined U.S. Army/Navy force and the Confederate defenses of Charleston, South Carolina.
Banastre Tarleton Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet GCB was a British general and politician. He is best known as the lieutenant colonel leading the British Legion at the end of the American Revolution. He later served in Portugal and held commands in Ireland and England.

Question 40

Thomas Sumter

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an American military officer, planter, and politician who served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general during the Revolutionary War. After the war, Sumter was elected to the House of Representatives and to the Senate, where he served from 1801 to 1810, when he retired.

Question 41

Francis Marion Brigadier General Francis Marion, also known as the “Swamp Fox”,

Answer 41

was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.

Question 42

The Battle of Camden

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was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.

Question 43

Battle of Kings Mountain

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was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War

Question 44

Lord Cornwallis

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a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator

Question 45

Battle of Yorktown

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The siege of Yorktown began September 28, 1781

Question 46

Treaty of Paris

Answer 46

signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783