UNIT 2: AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Question 1

Regulators

Answer 1

A large group of North Carolina colonists (mostly those living on the western frontier) who protested the high taxes they had to pay and their lack of representation (compared to Eastern colonists) in government

Question 2

Declaratory Act

Answer 2

An act passed right after Great Britain repealed the Stamp Act, stating that despite this, they still had power to make laws regarding the colonies in all cases

Question 3

Townshend Duties

Answer 3

A series of taxes/duties on imported goods such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The acts were repealed (except the Tea Act) the same day as the Boston Massacre.

Led to the organized boycott of British goods, encouraged by the Sons/Daughters of Liberty and other anti-British groups

Question 4

Samuel Adams

Answer 4

A Founding Father who led the radicals in Massachusetts and was part of the Loyal Nine / Sons of Liberty as well as founded the first Committee of Correspondence

Question 5

Actual Representation

Answer 5

Colonial belief that they should have representatives from the colonies in Parliament

Question 6

1st Continental Congress

Answer 6

Founded after the Intolerable/Coercive Acts; boycotted British goods but wanted to repair relations with Great Britain rather than declare independence

Question 7

2nd Continental Congress

Answer 7

Met in May 1775 (after Lexington & Concord) and extended the olive branch petition to King George III and began assembling the Continental Army. They did not declare independence until 1776, when 5 members of the Continental Congress were entrusted to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Question 8

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Answer 8

Declared colonies independent, extended Western border to Mississippi, called for British to leave their posts in America, and meant to end retaliatory measures against Loyalists and their property in the colonies

Question 9

American domestic manufacturing

Answer 9

The colonies began manufacturing their own products during and after the Revolutionary War since they were no longer forced to import manufactured goods from G Britain.

Question 10

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 10

A series of laws under a system that took Western land from all of the colonies and allowed farmers to purchase it.

Question 11

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 11

One of the land ordinances that established precedent for declaring a territory a state and declared the Northwest territories free of slavery.

Question 12

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Answer 12

Last battle between Native tribes in the Northwest and colonial troops that resulted in Native Americans signing a treaty to give up NW land.

Question 13

Deism

Answer 13

God exists, but people are in control of their own fates

Question 14

Sons of Liberty caused by

Answer 14

The Stamp Act

Question 15

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Answer 15

All French territory was lost (ceded Ohio River Valley and Quebec to the British, Louisiana / Mississippi to the French)