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Who was the French and Indian war between?

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Between France and Great Britain for control of the Ohio River Valley

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What global war was it part of?

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Part of a larger global war called the Seven Years’ War

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Who won?

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Great Britain won

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How did the French and Indian war impact Georgia?

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Their borders extended south to the St. Mary’s River and west to the Mississippi River

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What was the Proclamation of 1763?

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King George forbade all colonists in the Americas from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

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Why was the Proclamation of 1763 made?

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Because of the French and Indian War, relations with many Native American groups had been ruined

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How did the colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763?

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This angered most of the colonists, but not Georgians because they were still a small colony with a lot of room to expand before they hit the Appalachians

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What was the Sugar Act of 1764?

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Placed a tax on sugar and molasses

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What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

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Placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents and licenses to raise money for French and Indian War

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What was the Stamp Act Congress?

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Met to speak against British taxes
Wrote a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances” to King George
No one from GA attended

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Who were the Liberty Boys?

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Met in local taverns to discuss protest

“Sons of Liberty”-larger nationwide group of protesters

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Who were the Loyalists?

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a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause.

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Who were the Patriots?

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Those who supported a revolution

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Who were the Pacifists?

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a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable

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Who were the red coats?

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A British Soldier

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Who were the fence sitters?

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a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable

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What was the Townsend act?

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Import tax on tea, paint, glass, paper

Georgians became outspoken against taxes

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Why did the British began levying taxes on the colonists?

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To get money

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What was the first item taxed by the British?

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Sugar and molasses

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What does the phrase No Taxation Without Representation relate to?

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Did not have a voice in government, but paid taxes
Began boycotting items such as tea, paint and newspapers
Parliament repeals Townshend Acts except for tea tax

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What was the Boston Massacre?

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March 1770
Protesters threw snowballs at British soldiers
Five civilians killed, including Crispus Attucks, a freed slave

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What was the Boston Tea Party?

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1773
Parliament passes Tea Act
East India Tea Company
Dec. 1773-Boston Tea Party (incl. Paul Revere and Samuel Adams)

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What were the intolerable acts?

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Made to punish Patriots for 
     Boston Tea Party
Closed Boston Harbor
In Mass., no town meetings
British officers tried for capital crimes in Britain, not colonies
Quartering Act
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What was the Continental Congress?

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September 1774
Every state except GA represented
Two sides : Break away or make changes and stay with GB
Agreed to boycott British trade
Committees of Safety-enforced boycott
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What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

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First battles of Revolutionary War
Made British the aggressor
Moral victory for Patriots

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What was the Second Continental Congress?

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May 1775
Philadelphia
Petitioned King George III to stop attacking colonies
Decided to create a Continental Army, led by Washington

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Who was the one Georgia supportive

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Lyman Hall at 2nd C.C. late, unofficially
Other colonies angry
1/3 of all colonists were Tories
Many from Georgia

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What was Common Sense?

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Political pamphlet by Thomas Paine
Argued in favor of independence
Sold 500,000 copies in one year (only 2.5 million living in colonies)
60,228,000 today

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Which three Georgians singed the Declaration of Independence?

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Lyman Hall, George Walton, and Button Gwinnett

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What were the Components of the Declaration?

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Preamble- stated how colonists felt about democracy
Body- list of 27 grievances against King George III
Conclusion- declared the colonies an independent nation

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What was the Battle of Kettle Creek?

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First colonial victory in Georgia
Led by Elijah Clarke
Comparatively minor, but important to GA
Importance: Colonists took needed weapons and horses from British

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What was the Siege of Savannah?

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Siege: when forces try to capture a fort or town by surrounding and cutting off supplies
Attack lasted 45 minutes, and cost 1,000 Patriot and 40 British lives
British controlled Savannah for rest of war

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What were the weaknesses of Georgia’s new constitution?

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Unicameral (one-house) legislature
One-year term for governors
Governors selected by legislature, not people
Judges selected by legislature, not people

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What were the strengths of Georgia’s new constitution?

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Limited power of governors, who were too powerful in old system
Parishes eliminated; made counties

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Who was Nancy Hart?

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Many legends are told about Nancy Hart
After they murdered her neighbor, she killed a British soldier and held four more at gunpoint until help arrived
She may have worked as a Patriot spy and possibly fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek
Hart County is the only county in Georgia named after a woman

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Who was Elijah Clarke?

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A poor, illiterate
North Carolina farmer who supported the king as late as 1774
Fought against Creek and Cherokee tribes that supported the British
Led a rebel militia (citizen army) against a force of 800 British at Kettle Creek
Was able to acquire badly needed supplies after defeating British
Survived several battle wounds, mumps and smallpox during the Revolution
Part of the Yazoo Land Fraud and continued fighting Creek tribes after the war
Tried to create his own independent republic, the Trans-Oconee Republic
Died poor, disgraced and bitter with politics

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Who was Austin Dabney?

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Born a slave and owned by a man
named Richard Aycock
Fought in place of Aycock in the Revolution
Only African-American to fight in the Battle of Kettle Creek, and the only African American to be given land (and his freedom) in Georgia after the war
Severely wounded in battle, his life was saved by a man named Giles Harris. In an odd twist, he would end up paying for Harris’ son to attend Franklin College (now UGA) all the way through law school.

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Who were the Georgia signers of the constitution?

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WILLIAM FEW AND ABRAHAM BALDWIN

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