history

Question 1

French and Indian War

Answer 1

• Known as seven years war
• The British and the French fought the Seven Years’ War.
• A dispute around North American land claims.

Question 2

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 2

• Colonists were banned to go west of the Appalachian mountains
• Colonists didn’t listen

Question 3

Sugar Act

Answer 3

• Tax on imported sugar

Question 4

Tea Act

Answer 4

• Boston Tea Party was in response
• Tax on tea

Question 5

Boston Tea Party

Answer 5

• Tea was thrown from ships in the Boston harbor
• Protesting tax on tea and competitions monopoly

Question 6

King George lll

Answer 6

• King of Great Britain
• Consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops

Question 7

Intolerable Acts

Answer 7

• Four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
• Prevented all trade in the colonies

Question 8

Quartering Act

Answer 8

• Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses
• Would also have to provide food and water

Question 9

John Locke

Answer 9

• Natural Laws/ Rights
  -life
  -liberty
  -property
• Defends the right of revolution

Question 10

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 10

• Separation of powers
  
  • (legislative, executive,
    judicial)
• Theory of organized government was the English conception of liberty and the English system of Government

Question 11

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 11

• Social Contract
• Liberty
• equality
• Fraternity

Question 12

Stamp Act

Answer 12

• First direct tax on colonists
• Tax on printed materials such as legal docs, playing cards, and newspapers
• Buy stamp=paying tax
• Boycotts and Protests
  - Tarring and Feathering

Question 13

Sons of Liberty

Answer 13

• Group of interrogators who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government.

Question 14

Townsend Acts

Answer 14

• Tax on glass, lead, tea, paper, and paint
• Boycotts

Question 15

Boston Massacre

Answer 15

• Fighting British and col
• People died
• Crispus Attacks= first ppl to die
• Moved away from protesting and chose violence

Question 16

Second Continental Congress

Answer 16

• Olive Branch petition
• Declaration of Independence

Question 17

Olive Branch petition

Answer 17

• a petition sent by the citizens of British colonies in America to the British government and King George III.
• to avoid war between the colonies and Great Britain

Question 18

Common Sense

Answer 18

• Thomas Paine
• Declare our independence
• Republican style government

Question 19

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 19

• Served as a delegate when returned to Virginia

Question 20

Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

• Document that proclaimed the 13 original states were free and independent states

Question 21

Patriots

Answer 21

• supported colonial independence and self-rule

Question 22

Loyalists

Answer 22

• loyal to British rule

Question 23

Causes and Effects of french and Indian war

Answer 23

• War was very expensive which caused taxes to be paid (American revolution)
• Colonists ran out of land, Indians and French are upset that English are taking their land.

Question 24

How did the French and Indian War create tension between the Colonists and British Government?

Answer 24

• Great Britain raised taxes on the colonies, which led to widespread protests and boycotts of British goods.

Question 25

What events led to tension between the colonists and Britain? Which were the more significant events, and why?

Answer 25

• Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects.

Question 26

How did the colonies begin to show forms of unity? Provide specific examples.

Answer 26

• Delegates from each state met and a plan for unity was initially submitted at the Second Continental Congress on July 12, 1776.

Question 27

What ideas influenced the American Revolution?

Answer 27

• The ideas of “no taxation without representation” and “life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of happiness”

Question 28

How did the Enlightenment inspire the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 28

• The Declaration of Independence is a historic document that embodies Enlightenment ideals, advocating for equality, natural rights, and a government by consent. It reflects the influence of philosophers like John Locke and Montesquieu, emphasizing a social contract and balanced governance.

Question 29

What is the difference between loyalists and patriots? Who supported which side?

Answer 29

• Loyalists:colonists of the American revolutionary period who supported, and stayed loyal, to the British monarchy.
• Patriots: colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution.