Mid term

Question 1

King George 3

Answer 1

king od England during the revolution

Question 2

Grenville

Answer 2

appointed as prime minister at the end of the French and Indian war

Question 3

Proclomation line of 1763

Answer 3

line created by the British to separate settlers from Indians to decrease conflicts.

Question 4

stamp act

Answer 4

first direct tax to settlers,
forced to buy a stamp in orderto sell: playing cards, news papers and legal docukents’
passed feb 1765, in affect in November

Question 5

mercantile theory

Answer 5

promoted a government controlled economy

Question 6

sons/ daughters of liberty

Answer 6

a ton of dudes and girls that wanted liberty for their country

Question 7

Townshend acts

Answer 7

taxed glass, paper, paint, lead and 3 cents on tea

vice admiralty courts

Question 8

Tea Act

Answer 8

India exports tea straight to us

Question 9

intollerable acts

Answer 9

thomas gage acting gov
port closed until 10k paid
troops in private homes

Question 10

first continental congress

Answer 10

sept 5, 1774 in phili
everyone represented but Georgia
no taxation wo representation

Question 11

Second continental congress

Answer 11

may 1775
authorized of American money
George Washington voted commander

Question 12

olive branch petition

Answer 12

colonist would end resistance if military left homes and intolerable act ended

Question 13

Common sense

Answer 13

written Thomas Paine

main points: momnarchy, independence, oppression, an island that rules a continent?

Question 14

Hessians

Answer 14

hired mercenaries from germany

Question 15

battle of trenton

Answer 15

December 21, 1776
New Jersey
captured hessians during a party

Question 16

battle of princeton

Answer 16

night after Trenton
defeated British in battle
pushed British back

Question 17

Burgoyne

Answer 17

1777- planned to come down from Canada but howe never showed up
had to surrender to Horatio gates

Question 18

Cornwallis

Answer 18

job was to unite with loyalist

Question 19

Swamp fox

Answer 19

a gorilla fighter named Frances marion

Question 20

Degrasse

Answer 20

French admiral in charge of navy, brings navy to Yorktown

Question 21

articles of confederation

Answer 21

written by John Dickinson in July 1776
first draft of confederation
strong national got
preserved rights and privileges of states

Question 22

weaknesses of articles of confederation

Answer 22

no authority to tax
congress would act with consent of states
sold western land

Question 23

shays rebellion

Answer 23

farmer rebellion in western mass
1786
state wouldn’t back farmers and raised tax
troops killed 4 people

Question 24

Barbary pirates

Answer 24

attacked merchant ships

Question 25

Constitutional conventions

Answer 25

Philly in 1787 called by GW

Question 26

great compromise

Answer 26

bicameral leg w equal rep in one house and proportional representation in the other

Question 27

3/5 compromise

Answer 27

slaves would count as 3/5 of a person