Revolutionary War Test Flashcards
This act required colonists to provide housing and food and other necessities to British soldiers
Quartering act
This act taxed all paper products from letters to playing cards
Stamp act
This accident or cold murder resulted in five colonists dead
Boston massacre
This series of acts included an order that Britain took over the Massachusetts government and that Britain controlled all town meetings and more troops had to go over to the colonies to enforce British laws.
Intolerable acts
This event lost 90,000 pounds of tea.
Boston tea party
This act was a tax on paint, glass, paper, and tea
Town shed act
Group of Indians that sided with the French for the French and Indian war
Huron
This tribe helped the English In the French and Indian war
Iroquois
What is a fence sitter
A person who either, doesn’t agree with either side or agrees with both.
Why did the British tax colonists after the French and Indian war
They owed a lot of money in the debt
What is the proclamation of 1763
It says that colonists can’t settle west of the Appalachian mountains to keep peace with the Indian tribes.
Why were the colonists upset about the proclamation of 1763
Because they needed more room for the people crossing to the colonies.
What percent was patriot
40%
What percent was loyalist
20%
What percent was a fence sitter
40%
What did the colonists feel about breaking apart from Britain and why
They didn’t want to break apart because Britain was a big nation and they could be ally’s
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
What percent of the colonies needed to vote yes for freedom
All
When was the Declaration of Independence ratified
July 2nd 1776
How many days did it take to get everyone to sign
2 days
When was the first Independence Day
July 4 1776
Who wrote common sense
Thomas Paine
What did Thomas Paine write
Common sense
What colony did Richard lee represent
Massachusetts
What did Samuel Adams lead.
Sons of liberty
What did Benjamin franklin do
He sealed the deal with France.
Who led the Boston tea party
Sons of liberty
Stamp act
All paper products
Year of the townshed act
1767
Boston tea party year
1773
Intolerable acts year
1774
First continental congress year
1774
What did they agree on at the first continental congress
: train and arm a militia
: boycott Britain
: intolerable acts are illegal violations of people’s rights
: Patrick Henry’s unity quote they are now Americans
Olive branch petition date
July 5th 1775
What and why was the olive branch petition
They sent it to king George 3 to try and become friends with Britain.
What did king George do to the olive branch petition
He ignored it
Second coninental congress date
June 1775
How many people showed up to the second continental congress
56 delegates no Georgia
What year was common sense written
1776
What is common sense
A pamphlet filled with punchy lines to win the colonists over to freedom
What specific rights did the Declaration of Independence contain
People are born with certain rights
King George 3 has taken these rights away from us
So we are forming our own country
What part did South Carolina make Thomas Jefferson remove
Slavery
What date was the Declaration of Independence ratified
July 2nd 1776
What dates was the Declaration of Independence signed
July fourth to August second 1776
Paul revere
Midnight ride with the British are coming
The regulars are out
Charles Cornwallis
A British General who lost Yorktown
John Burgoyne
A British General who lost Saratoga
William Howe
Highest ranked British General who took over Pennsylvania
John Adams
Leader of the independence act
What are inalienable rights
Everyone is born with certain rights. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
What is treason? Why were some of the rebels guilty of this?
Treason is when you are plotting against ones government. The rebels were guilty of this when they
When and why did the first continental congress meet.
October 1774
They were there to discuss the intolerable acts.
When and why did the second continental congress meet.
May 1775
They met to decide the leader of the continental army and the Declaration of Independence
Why was the battle of Trenton significant
It was a major turning point in the revolutionary war
The patriots surprisingly beat the British
Why was the battle of Saratoga significant
October 1777
A turning point in the war and the rebels won
Describe Burgoynes strategy to capture New York
He had spent the last few months working out a detailed plan for winning the war.
Slice America in two. This would be done by attacking the centrally located state of north from the north and south at the same time.
What did William Prescott mean when he said don’t fire until, you see the whites of their eyes.
He meant that don’t fire until you are close enough to them to see the whites of their eyes. He said this because they did not have much gunpowder and the guns didn’t have an accurate aim from far away and they didn’t want to waste. So when they could see the whites of their eyes then they could fire.
How did Nathaniel Green and swamp fox play a role in the patriot victory.
They slowed down the British troops because they made tiny attack against them to slow them down
