OPVL American Revolution

Question 0

Thomas Whately:

Purpose

Answer 0

Wants the colonists to submit to Britain; wrote a pamphlet that was circulated throughout the colonies

Question 1

Thomas Whately:

Origin

Answer 1

Member or British parliament and treasury; written in 1766 just after the repeal of the stamp act and the declaratory act

Question 2

Samuel Seabury:

Origin

Answer 2

Tory; bishop; written in 1775 on the verge of war and Continental Congress was passing laws

Question 3

Samuel Seabury:

Purpose

Answer 3

Felt continental congress was illegitimate; wanted to persuade readers to not listen to continental congress

Question 4

Alexander Hamilton:

Origin

Answer 4

Rebel; financial advocate; written in 1775= on the verge of war

Question 5

What happened in 1775 during the American Revolution?

Answer 5

Lexington and concord=starts formal war; battle of bunker hill=victory for Britain, but Britain is cautious about war

Question 6

What happened in 1776 during the war?

Answer 6

Battle of Long Island=Americans retreat to New Jersey; battle of Trenton=on Christmas and gives rebels first big victory

Question 7

What happened in 1777 during the war?

Answer 7

Ticonderoga= leads to Saratoga; Saratoga=gates traps bergoyne, France enters war, turning point

Question 8

What happens in 1779 in the war?

Answer 8

Sullivan and Iroquois=war in backcountry too

Question 9

What happens in 1780 in the war?

Answer 9

Battle if King’s Moutain= stops britains plot to take the Carolina’s

Question 10

What happens in 1781 during the war?

Answer 10

Yorktown= war over

Question 11

John Adams:

Origin

Answer 11

Rebel; written in 1775; strong in central gov’t; helps wrote the Declaration of Independence

Question 12

Thomas Whately:

Value

Answer 12

Making arguments on why colonist should pay taxes: Britain fought a war for you, gave you more territory

Question 13

Thomas Whately:

Limitations

Answer 13

Never mentions “taxation w/o representation; Britain trying to persuade colonists not to succeeded

Question 14

Samuel Seabury:

Value

Answer 14

There cannot be a Continental Congress w/o a legitimate gov’t; men should be free within the restrictions of civil society; only parliament can make laws

Question 15

Alexander Hamilton:

Value

Answer 15

Entitled to life, liberty and property; must have the people’s consent in order to govern them

Question 16

Alexander Hamilton:

Limitations

Answer 16

The fact that he signed a charter to Britain that allowed the colonies to exist

Question 17

John Adams:

Value

Answer 17

2 supreme beings cannot exist together; ask for 25% representation in parliament

Question 18

Thomas Jefferson:

Origin

Answer 18

Written in July 1776; member of continental congress

Question 19

Thomas Jefferson:

Purpose

Answer 19

Shows the king they are an independent nation

Question 20

Merrill Jensen:

Origin

Answer 20

Neo-Progressive=intellectual history; saw revolution in terms of conflict between political and economic clashes

Question 21

Gordon Wood:

Origin

Answer 21

Neo-progressive; independence turned into a distinctive republican ideology; colonists had an antiauthoritarian tradition

Question 22

John Greene:

Origin

Answer 22

Psychology era; revolution in Britain v. In America

Question 23

Merrill Jensen:

Value

Answer 23

Political parties and social classes in the colonies were in constant conflict and the Declaration of Independence did little to change that

Question 24

Wood:

Value

Answer 24

Revolution was not an aggressive revolution, but it caused a social connection between people

Question 25

Greene:

Value

Answer 25

British revolution not an American one