Notes for Test 2

Question 1

Magna Carta

Answer 1

1215
The great charter
Guaranteed English Liberties

Question 2

Causes of French and Indian War

Answer 2

1754-1763
Colonists wanted to move West
French and English wanted the Wilderness

Question 3

Results of French and Indian War

Answer 3

Proclamation of 1763
Taxes on colonists

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

1770
Boston Tea Party-1773
Intolerable Acts
3000 troops
Shutdown Boston Harbor and trade
Restricts Guns
3rd Amendment

Question 5

1st Continental Congress

Answer 5

Fall 1774
Discussed Americas future under growing British aggression
12 of the 13 colonies there.

Question 6

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Answer 6

1775
“Shot heard around the World”
British looking for Guns
Paul Revere’s ride

Question 7

2nd Continental Congress

Answer 7

May 1775
Our government during the revolutionary war
Sent olive branch petition to the King
George Washington is General
John Hancock is President
Battle of Bunker Hill- 1775

Question 8

Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

Pure Locke
Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

Battle of New York

Answer 9

The British are back
Washington Loses and runs to Pennsylvania

Question 10

Battle of Trenton

Answer 10

Washington crosses the Delaware River on December 25, 1776
Attacks Trenton, New Jersey
900 Hessian Soldiers

Question 11

Hessian Soldiers

Answer 11

German Soldiers fighting for the British

Question 12

Battle of Seratoga

Answer 12

Big win 1777
French will join US
958 Hessian Soldiers
Benedict Arnold Surrendered West point for 20,000 pounds
General Burgoyne, of the British, lost

Question 13

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 13

1781
Final Major Battle
A win for general Washington
Cornwallis Surrendered Yorktown

Question 14

Treaty of Paris

Answer 14

1783
Recognized U.S. as a nation
Expand our territory of the Mississippi River
Be nice to the Tories

Question 15

Tories

Answer 15

American Colonist who supports the British

Question 16

1st Weakness of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 16

1781-1789
No national Judiciary
No executive
Has to be unanimous for change
Congress could not regulate trade or tax

Question 17

Critical Period

Answer 17

1783-1789
Pest problems
Trade Problems- Cui Bono
British interference
Money Problems

Question 18

Cui Bono

Answer 18

Meaning: Who Benefits?

Question 19

Constitutional Convention

Answer 19

Philadelphia 1787
Tax and trade- Commerce and Slave Trade
3/5ths Compromise
Draft Constitution
Created three Branches of Government