Tommy Revolutionary War

Question 1

What is back country?

Answer 1

Land that was close to the appalachian mountains in the colonial days

Question 2

Why move to the back country?

Answer 2

Rich fertile land with dense trees, built log cabins, farmed and hunted

Question 3

What were some problems in the back country?

Answer 3

Indians did not want colonists on their land

Question 4

Who claimed the back country and why?

Answer 4

French claimed it because of the Mississippi river and tributaries

British and Indians

Question 5

Who was the explorer of the back country

Answer 5

Frenchman Robert LaSalle

Question 6

When did the French and Indian war start and end?

Answer 6

Start 1754
End 1763
9 years

Question 7

An important Bridgman in the French and Indian war was

Answer 7

Colonel George Washington was very important

Question 8

Who fought as enemies in the French and Indian war

Answer 8

The French and Indians fought the British and iroquois nation

Question 9

What and who helped end the French and Indian war

Answer 9

1759 general James wolf captured Quebec ended war

Question 10

Three reasons why the French Indian war was important

Answer 10

More land
Control Indian land
Taxes on the colonists to pay for the war
Anger fueled American revolution

Question 11

Stamp act

Answer 11

1765 anything printed had a tax on it needed a stamp

Question 12

Why did the parliament tax the colonists?

Answer 12

They have to pay for the French and Indian war debt

Question 13

What did “no taxation without representation” mean

Answer 13

They were used to governing themselves

Question 14

Who were the sons of liberty?

Answer 14

A group of men who protested the stamp act. Led by Samuel Adams burned stamps and attacked collectors

Question 15

What was Townsend Act?

Answer 15

A tariff that is placed on goods that are imported Tea…paper…lead…glass…paints…wool

Lead to the colonist boycotting these goods

Question 16

Why did the British send warships to Boston in 1768?

Answer 16

To scare colonist into paying their taxes which did not work

It did not work repelled all taxes except for tea

Question 17

Who is John Adams?

Answer 17

Defended the British soldiers from the Boston massacre.

Question 18

Boston massacre

Answer 18

March 5, 1770
British soldiers fired into crowd of colonists

5 were killed

Soldiers were tried for murder

Question 19

What was the tea act?

Answer 19

1773 law passed by parliament that the colonists could only buy tea from East India company

Question 20

Boston tea party

Answer 20

December 16, 1773

Sons of liberty threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor

Dressed up like mohawk Indians

Question 21

Intolerable acts

Answer 21

Punish colonists for Boston tea party
No ships in or out of Boston harbor
Colonists were forced to feed and house soldiers
Thomas Gage was a British general sent to govern Massachusetts

Question 22

What did the committe of correspondence do?

Answer 22

Created in 1772
Wrote letters to other groups and colonoies to share info
Started by Samuel Adams

Question 23

First continetal congress

Answer 23

September 1774 Philadelphia pa 
12 men met ( John Adams, Sam Adams, George Washington, Patrick henry)
Protest intolerable act
Not trade with British
Each colony would create militia