Test 2 - Quarter 1 Flashcards
- What is the spillover of the conflict between France and England in the New World?
The French and Indian war
What are the countries of Sweden, Austria, and France attempting to do at the start of the Seven Year’s War?
Get rid of Prussia’s king, Frederick the Great
What are the two objectives the British Parliament are desperate to accomplish after the French and Indian War?
tax the colonists
restore the profitability of the East Indian Trading Company
What are the two examples of early colonial self-governance from our notes?
The Mayflower compact And the House of burgesses
In what state and in what year was the House of Burgesses set up?
Virginia 1619
What document set up Democracy in the Massachusetts colony?
The Mayflower compact
What is the earliest example of self-governance in the English colonies?
the house of burgesses
What acts did the British government fail to enforce all parts of, while they were practicing the policy of Salutary Neglect?
The navigation acts
What did the colonist do in response to increased British taxation?
They boycott British goods
What piece of British legislation (laws) stated that the “British could do whatever they want to do in the colonies”?
The Declaratory acts
What acts did the colonists call the “Intolerable Acts”?
the coercive acts
What did the Continental Army gain from the capture of Fort Ticonderoga?
Ammunition and artillery
What important event caused militiamen began to flock to the areas around Boston, reaching some 20,000 strong?
Lexington and Concord
What is the “last appeal to Britain for peace to avoid open war” that is rejected by the King? (It is NOT the Declaration of Independence).
Olive Branch petition
Whose was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to lead the Continental Army?
Washington
Why did the Patriots want control of Bunker and Breed’s Hill?
To be able to bombard cannons on Boston
What does George Washington threaten to do to the British in Boston if they (British) do not leave?
Bombard cannons on Boston
On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
July 2nd 1776
What is the name of the book written by Thomas Paine?
Common sense
How many copies of Thomas Paine’s book sold in the first three months?
100,000
In what city was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Who made a motion in the Second Continental Congress to dissolve all ties with Britain?
Richard Henry Lee
The core ideas of the Declaration of Independence are based on whose philosophies?
John Locke’s
What British notion did Thomas Paine disagree with?
The Divine rights of Kings
What are the 4 things that the Second Continental Congress did?
they formed the Continental Army, led by George Washington
they commisioned, drafted and signed the Olive Branch Petition
they printed paper money to pay troops
they began acting like a government
Name the 5 men put on the comity to craft/create the Declaration of Independence.
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Roger Sherman
Robert Livingston
What are the 3 arguments that Thomas Paine makes for the separation of America from the British Empire?
America should have its own destiny
disagreed against the economic arguments against America’s freedom
all monarchies are corrupt
Who famously said “our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe”?
Thomas Paine
French and Indian War:
the spillover of conflict from the Seven Year War
House of Burgesses:
the first example of self governance
Virginia, 1619
Mayflower Compact:
the democracy set up in the Massachsetts colony
1620
Compact:
an agreement or contract between a group of ppl
Boycott:
refusal to buy goods from a certain company / country
Independence:
free from rule
Patriot:
a colonist fighting for independence
Loyalist:
a colonist that wanted to stay loyal to Britain
Artillery:
cannons and large GUNS
Green Mountain Boys:
Ethan Allen and his men who took over Fort Ticonderoga and gained artillery
Olive Branch Petition:
the last appeal to the British empire to fix problems with open war
