Revolutionary Period

Question 1

What political practices happened before the Revolution?

Answer 1

Pennsylvania + Southern Colonies:
proprietary colonies

all other colonies:
separation of governmental power into
governor and colonial assembly

Question 2

Which colonies were self-governing?

Answer 2

Plymouth + Massachusetts in the 17th century

Connecticut + Rhode Island in the 18th century

Question 3

What was the difference between self-governing colonies and the other colonies?

Answer 3

self-governing: settlers elect governor

normal: british king appointed governor

Question 4

What were the pros of the seperation of governmental power?

Answer 4

most colonial assemblies have power of the purse

Question 5

What is the power of the purse?

Answer 5

assembly can decide how money/taxes is spent in colony

Question 6

What are the cons of the spereration of the governmental power?

Answer 6

voters: only white men, often religious or proprietary qualifications
British king/queen/Governor has right to veto bills

Question 7

What economic pratices happened led to the Revolution?

Answer 7

British mercantile theory:
colonies are there to enrich mothercountry, not colony

discrimination colonies in econimic ways
> high taxes, dependency on Britain
Sugar and Molasses Act
Iron Act
Stamp Act
Navigation Act

Question 8

What means “No taxation without representation”?

Answer 8

colonists want voice and representation in British parliament

Question 9

What was the settlers’ reaction to this economic discrimination?

Answer 9

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Question 10

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 10

rebellion against economic acts

colonists dressed up as Natives to show that they are different than British
destroyed tea packages on ships

Question 11

What and when was the First Continental Congress?

Answer 11

1774
Delegates from British colonies meet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss means of resistance

embargo (Handelsblockade):
no more goods colony > Britain

Question 12

Where and who said “Give me Liberty or give me death”?

Answer 12

Patrick Henry

1774 First Continental Congress

Question 13

When was the War of Independence?

Answer 13

1775-1783

Question 14

What were Minutemen?

Answer 14

American “troops”

no trained military, normal people with weapons

Question 15

Who trained the American troops?

Answer 15

Baron von Steuben

Prussian military officer

Question 16

How did the fighting of the War of Indepence start?

Answer 16

British troop attack on Concord (colonists had stocked military supplies)

Question 17

What is the famous nightride?

Answer 17

Paul Revere forewarned Minutemen for British attack

Question 18

Where was the real first battle of the War of Independence?

Answer 18

Bunker Hill (Boston, Massachusetts)

Question 19

Who was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the War of Independenceß

Answer 19

George Washington

Question 20

What happened on the 2nd Continental Congress in 1775?

Answer 20

decision for independece
Declaration of Independence
British loyalists (Tories) flee to the North and settle in Canada

Question 21

When was the Declaration of Independence was issued?

Answer 21

July 4 1776

Question 22

Who drafted the Declaration of Independenceß

Answer 22

Thomas Jefferson

Question 23

What main issues does the Declaration of Independence say?

Answer 23

all men are created equal: no classes+royalty+arisocracy
pursuit of happiness. free will of choosing job
the government is to serve the people

list what british king done wrong as justification to speak up

Question 24

Which clause was in the origiginal draft of the Declaration of Independence that was later omitted?

Answer 24

no slavery clause

Question 25

Why did the US allies military with France in 1778?

Answer 25

first to recognize colonies as independent country

fight against same enemy Britain

Question 26

What did the Treaty of Paris made official at the end of the war?

Answer 26

independence for the original 13 colonies
United States of America established
rest of north american continent divided between EU powers

Question 27

What political system was decided on in 1789?

Answer 27

federal republic with a bicameral system

> 2 chambers

Question 28

What does the US congress consist of?

Answer 28

house of representatives (members depend on population)

senate (2 per state)

Question 29

Who were the Founding Fathers of the USA?

Answer 29

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
...

Question 30

Who was the first president of the United States?

Answer 30

George Washington

Question 31

What is the Bill of Rights established in 1790?

Answer 31

first 10 amendments of consitution

freedom of worship
freedom of speech
freedom of press

Question 32

When does the constitution comes into force?

Answer 32

1789

Question 33

When and where is the Capital of the US?

Answer 33

Washington D.C.

1790

Question 34

When was the US Dollar introduced?

Answer 34

1792

Question 35

When was the Copy Right Law ntrocued and why was i important?

Answer 35

1790
American literature could no longer be stolen and published in Britain
developement of American literature

Question 36

What did Washington Irving write?

Answer 36

short stories modelled on European tradition
“Rip van Winkle”
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Question 37

What did Lydia Maria Child write?

Answer 37

“Hobomok”
Puritan settlement in Plymouth
critical about white treatement of Natives

Question 38

What did Catherine Maria Sedgwick write?

Answer 38

“Hope Leslie”

retelling of the Pequot War from a Native persepective

Question 39

Which two books were critical about the treatement of Natives by white settlers?

Answer 39

“Hobomok” - Lydia Maria Child

“Hope Leslie” Catherine Maria Sedgwick