Exam 3: week 11

Question 0

Committees of Safety

Answer 0

Created to manage affairs after convention adjourned. Designed to meet immediate need of wartime. Headed by Edmund Pendleton.

Question 1

Governor General Thomas Gage

Answer 1

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Question 2

Second Continental Congress

Answer 2

managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776

Question 3

American Prohibitory Act

Answer 3

It declared and provided for a naval blockade against American ports

Question 4

Common Sense

Answer 4

presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule. Written by Thomas Paine.

Question 5

Virginia Declaration of Rights

Answer 5

Addressed the equality of all men, consent of the governed, right to overthrow a failed government, separation of powers, free election of reps, speedy trial, freedom of press, need for military, and freedom of religion.

Question 6

Dunmores War

Answer 6

Oct 1774. Andrew Lewis led Va militia men to bloody victory over Shawnee @ Point Pleasant on Ohio River. Gave Va Kentucky and pushed Indians to support British.

Question 7

George Rogers Clark

Answer 7

Led expedition west. Militia officer.