Revolutionary War

Question 0

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 0

The King of England, George III, passed a law prohibiting colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mt., which he enforced by quartering 10,000 troops in the colonies.

Question 1

French and Indian War

Answer 1

The people of France joined with the Native Americans to attack the British, who joined forces with the Iroquois Confederation , in 1754, and the war fighting continued through 1763, and into Europe being called the Seven Years War.

Question 2

African Americans

Answer 2

The southern colonies used these people as slaves labor on large plantations, growing cotton, tobacco, and food.

Question 3

Native Americans

Answer 3

By joining the French and Indian War, these people were being hurt by declining populations from war casualties.

Question 4

Taxes

Answer 4

The colonies were charged heavy prices for importing and expiring goods, and did not have representions in the British Parliament.

Question 5

Tea Act

Answer 5

On May 10,1773, this act was designed to help the East Indian Company sell a back-log of tea, but Hirt lack colonial merchants and angered the colonists.

Question 6

Boston Tea Party

Answer 6

The British restructured the Tea Act so that the British East Indian Company would not have to pay the heavy taxes, so the colonists dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbar, in 1773.

Question 7

Intolerable Acts

Answer 7

In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed 5 laws, in 1774, including the Boston Port Act, which closes Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for, The Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act.

Question 8

Stamp Act

Answer 8

Required the colonists to pay tax on certain types if documents and paper.

Question 10

Declaration Of Independence

Answer 10

This document, written by Thomas Jefferson outlined the grievances that the colonists had against England, and Proclaimed their freedom.

Question 11

Boston Massacre

Answer 11

Angery colonists threw snowballs at a sentry posted at the customs office and when British help came, they ended up shooting 5 colonists

Question 12

Patrick Henry

Answer 12

A radical colonist, from Virginia, who gave a fiery speech with the words “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”

Question 13

Thomas Paine

Answer 13

A British journalist who commended the monarchy, and in particular, George III, and called for Americas independence.

Question 14

Common Sense

Answer 14

A 50 page pamphlet by Thomas Paine, calling for a declaration of independence.

Question 15

American Revolution

Answer 15

When boycotts and protests did not work to change the British rule over the colonies, representatives from the 13 colonies gathered to declare independence from England, and fighting broke out between the two.

Question 16

Middle Colonies

Answer 16

Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania known as the “Breadbasket Colonies”, because they grew so much grain.

Question 17

Lexington-Concord

Answer 17

On a small field between the two towns, in 1775, 700 British soliders lined up across from about 70 minuet men, a shot was fired, and the Revolutionary War began, later it was called, “The shot heard around the world.”

Question 18

Saratoga

Answer 18

17,000 American soldiers, led by Horatio Gates, stopped a British army , led by General Burgoyne, before they reached the Albany, Nw York, giving colonists new enthusiasm for the war and becoming a turning point for American freedom, in 1777

Question 19

Yorktown

Answer 19

British General, Charles Cornwallis, marched his army north from North Carolina to Virginia, but was met by a combined French and American force of 17,000 men, was defeated and surrendered.

Question 20

Battle of Trenton

Answer 20

On Christmas night, George Washington led his army across the Delaware river, and allowed Jim to attack and defeat the Hessian army, on December 26, 1776.

Question 21

George Washington

Answer 21

He was the leader of the continental army, who beat the British at Yorktown.

Question 22

George III

Answer 22

The King of England when the colonists declares their independence.

Question 23

Manga Carta

Answer 23

In 1216, English noblemen forced King John to sign his agreement limiting the power of the monarchy.

Question 24

Articles of Confederation

Answer 24

In 1777, the colonies agrees to loose association of sovereign states, with certain common goals which serves as the government during the Revolutionary War.

Question 25

Sugar Act

Answer 25

Molasses and sugar were imported to sweeten tea, coffee, and make rum, which was New England’s contribution to the Triangle of trade, but parliament charges a fee for its importation