General information for H9

Question 1

First Continental Congress

Answer 1

-mass tells colonies to stop trading with Britan
-12 of the 13 colonies(Georgia only had prisoners) met in Philadelphia on September 5 1774
-sam Addams convinced colonists to not trade with Britan for their future independents

Question 2

Declaration of rights and grievances

Answer 2

Written by(wb)-sam Adams
-talked about relationship between colonies and parliament
-colonies should only be taxed by their own assemblies

Question 3

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 3

Mass collected weapons in town of Concord
Brits found out

Question 4

Sybil Ludington

Answer 4

16 y old
Roused milita in Putnam county NY
Milita helped
Road 40 and roused 400 milita

Question 5

Battle of Lexington

Answer 5

700 British against 70 American minutemen
Brits killed 8 and wound 10 and head to Concord
Moral victory cause Americans stalled

Question 6

Battle of Concord

Answer 6

British meet Americans at Concord
British retreat and lose 300 men in battle
Americans lost less than 100

Question 7

2nd continental Congress

Answer 7

May 1775
Philadelphia
George Washington chosen commander and chief of continental army
Created navy colonists licensed Americans privateers to loot British ships for supplies

Question 8

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 8

Slave
Very intelligent wrote poems and sold a lot of books wrote a poem to George Washington

Question 9

Bunker hill /breeds hill

Answer 9

William Prescott went to wrong hill
British attack 3 times
1 driven back
2 driven back
3 colonists ran out of gunpowder and surrendered
1/8 of British were killed in the battle
General Howe British leader lost 1000of his troops
Moral victory

Question 10

Distraction ploy

Answer 10

Olive Branch petition (no way colonies
War declared July 6 1775

Question 11

Attacking Canada

Answer 11

Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold attack Canada during snow storm
Montgomery dies and Arnold is wounded army. Retreats

Question 12

Common sense

Answer 12

Wb Thomas Paine
Says that it’s common sense to stop recognizing king George the 3 who is taking away their power

Question 13

French

Answer 13

Start helping supplying gunpowder to colonies
Happy to fight British

Question 14

Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

July 4 1776 wb Thomas Jefferson
Signed by John Hancock the prez on continental Congress and sent to each state

Question 15

Deborah sampson

Answer 15

Pretended to be male soldier Robert shurleff
Was given honorable discharge

Question 16

Lidia darragh

Answer 16

Housed British troops and got information
Snuk out of city and got information to Washington

Question 17

Mammy kate

Answer 17

Snuk master out of prison

Question 18

Articles of confederation

Answer 18

1 branch
Unicameral Congress
Needed all 13 states to ratifie it
Ratified on March 1 1781
Each state gets 1 vote
Needs 9 out of 13 votes to pass a law

Question 19

Articles of confederation powers

Answer 19

Make war and peace
Set up money system
Raise an army
Settle state disputes
Fix standers of weights and measures

Question 20

Articles of confederation missing

Answer 20

Power to tax
No prez or other leadership
State not forced to what they do

Question 21

Shays rebellion

Answer 21

Shays farmer and revolutionary veteran and other in debt farmers
Fought against tax collection
Because articles government had ruined economy making it hard for them to pay off debts

Question 22

Annapolis meeting

Answer 22

12 delegates from 5 states
Met to discuss interstate trade
In Annapolis, Maryland
States needed to be able to trade between states and needed to find a way to cope with different state currencys

Question 23

Philadelphia convention

Answer 23

May 14 to September 17,1787
In the independents hall in Philadelphia
Oldest delaget is ben Franklin
55 delagets attended
They were called framers

Question 24

Philadelphia convention start

Answer 24

Prez is George Washington
16 rules of procedure adopted
Va plan introduced
The new Jersey plan introduced

Question 25

Va plan

Answer 25

Introduced first by Edmund Randolph
Wb James Madison
For larger states
National power
3 branches
Legislative
Two houses
Proportional representation higher population more votes
Executive branch
A prez
Can veto

Question 26

New Jersey plan

Answer 26

Introduced and wb by William Paterson
For small states
State over national power
3 branches
Legislative
One house
Equal representation one state gets one vote
No veto
Executive
Group of leaders

Question 27

Compromise between nj plan and va plan

Answer 27

Introduced by Luther martin and presented by roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth
Wb Roger Sherman
3 branches
Legislative
Two houses
Proportional representation
Executive branch
One prez and a cabinet
Prez has veto
Judicial branch
One supreme court
Will hear most cases

Question 28

Ratification order

Answer 28

1 Delaware
9 new Hampshire (when it should have been adopted
10 Virginia
11 new York (was adopted
13 road Island

Question 29

Authors of Federalist papers

Answer 29

James Madison
Alexander
John jay

Question 30

Main anti federalist author

Answer 30

Mercy Otis Warren