QUIZ #2 COPY Flashcards

1
Q

Battle where the colonies began to win and France decided to help them.

A

Saratoga

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2
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This repealed the Townshend Acts and created a tax on just TEA

A

Tea Act

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3
Q

a formal request for change…

a letter signed by lots of people asking the government to do something different

A

petition

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4
Q

Final battle of the American Revolution and the place the British surrendered.

A

Yorktown

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5
Q

1st battle of the American Revolution

General Gage was trying to get the weapons from the colonists in MA

A

Lexington and Concord

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6
Q

Who was in charge of the Continental Army?

A

George Washington

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7
Q

Who owned Florida after the American Revolution

A

Spain

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8
Q

Western edge/boundary of the US after the war

A

Mississippi River

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9
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Letter to King George explaining the colonies were loyal, but Parliament was treating them unfairly and needed to stop so there could be peace.

A

Olive Branch Petition

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10
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short pamplet/essay written by Thomas Paine that said the colonies should declare independence because it would help them grow.

A

Common Sense

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11
Q

He wrote the Declaration of Independence down

A

Thomas Jefferson

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12
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colonial government which sent the Olive Branch Petition and the Declaration of Independence.

A

2nd Continental Congress

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13
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person who believed the colonies should fight for independence

A

Patriot

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14
Q

Introduction to the Declaration of Independence.

A

Preamble

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15
Q

Colonial protest which resulted in the destruction of property in Boston. The Coercive Acts were passed as a punishment.

A

Boston Tea Party

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16
Q

2 names for a person who wanted to stay part of Great Britain

A

Loyalist

Torie

17
Q

The rights the creators of the Declaration of Independence believed all were born with and could not be taken away

A

unalienable

life, liberty, pursiut of happiness

18
Q

What closed the Boston Harbor and town meeting as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

A

Coercive Acts/ Intorable Acts

19
Q

letter to Great Britian** said the government was unfair and taking away colonial rights so the colonies were **no longer part of Great Britain.

A

Declaration of Independence