UNIT 3

Question 1

Who participated in the French and Indian War?

Answer 1

British French Native Americans

Question 2

What was the French and Indian War also called?

Answer 2

The 7-year War

Question 3

How long did the French and Indian War last?

Answer 3

9 years

Question 4

Who won the French and Indian War? What did they get?

Answer 4

The British - Land along the east coast and lots of war debt

Question 5

What does the proclamation line do?

Answer 5

It doesn’t allow the colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 6

What did the intolerable acts do?

Answer 6

Allowed the British to take several punitive measures towards the colonies

Question 7

Why were the intolerable acts passed?

Answer 7

To assert control over the colonies.

Question 8

Why did Shay’s Rebellion happen?

Answer 8

Veterans of the AR who were returning home with no/little pay… Many of them were farmers and unable to pay mortgages

Question 9

When was Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 9

1786

Question 10

Who was a part of Shay’s Rebellion?

Answer 10

a group of farmers led by Daniel Shays began violent protests

Question 11

What did Shay’s Rebellion do?

Answer 11

Threatened to burn down the courts

Question 12

What was the MA government’s response to Shay’s Rebellion?

Answer 12

The Massachusetts government appealed to Congress which had no power to help

Question 13

What did the Articles of Confederation do?

Answer 13

Created a republic

Question 14

What did the Articles of Confederation state? (3 points)

Answer 14

• The citizens would choose representatives to make laws
• 2 levels of power: state and national
• NO president →just congress

Question 15

Each state retained Independence. With that in mind, what did they describe their nation as?

Answer 15

a “firm league of friendship”

Question 16

Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?

Answer 16

They made the gov’t too weak

Question 17

Who made the Join or Die propaganda piece?

Answer 17

Benjamin Franklin

Question 18

Why was “Join or Die” made?

Answer 18

To warn colonies that they needed to join together to gain more control over the land.

Question 19

Who made “The Bloody Massacre”

Answer 19

Paul Revere, an engraver

Question 20

What is “The Bloody Massacre” about?

Answer 20

What happened during the Boston Massacre

Question 21

What was biased about “The Bloody Massacre”?

Answer 21

It depicted the colonists as completely innocent and unarmed, which was not true.

Question 22

Who was George Washington?

Answer 22

General of the Continental Army. He was the first American president.

Question 23

Who was John Adams?

Answer 23

American statesman. He defended the British in court after the Boston Massacre

Question 24

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

Answer 24

Founding father of the United States. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of the signers.

Question 25

Who was Paul Revere?

Answer 25

American silversmith. He altered the Colonial militia of the British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Question 26

When was the Sugar Act instituted?

Answer 26

1764.

Question 27

What did the Sugar Act do?

Answer 27

Cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon

Question 28

When was the Stamp Act instituted?

Answer 28

1765

Question 29

What did the Stamp Act do?

Answer 29

It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.

Question 30

When was the Townshend Act instituted?

Answer 30

1767

Question 31

What did the Townshend Act do?

Answer 31

Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

Question 32

What did the Tea Act do?

Answer 32

It allowed the East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies

Question 33

When was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 33

March 5th, 1770

Question 34

What was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 34

Street fight when 9 British soldiers shot at several colonists in a large crowd that was harassing them both verbally and physically and 5 men were killed.

Question 35

What happened at the Boston Massacre trial?

Answer 35

6 of the 8 British soldiers were acquitted while the other two were found guilty and were defended John Adams

Question 36

When was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 36

1173

Question 37

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 37

Political protest held in the Boston Harbor - colonists dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the harbor

Question 38

When was the Battle of Lexington?

Answer 38

April 1775

Question 39

What was the Battle of Lexington?

Answer 39

British arrive in Lexington, MA on their way to Concord - met by 100 militiamen

Question 40

What were the British going for Concord for?

Answer 40

To confiscate weapons from the colonists’ militias.

Question 41

What happened at the Battle of Lexington?

Answer 41

Unsure who fired the first shot, and 8 colonial militiamen are killed

Question 42

How many men fought the British at Concord?

Answer 42

3,000 - 4,000 militia gathered after hearing about the events in Lexington

Question 43

What happened at Concord?

Answer 43

Militia fire and kill almost 300 British - 90 militiamen were killed

Question 44

What happened in New York?

Answer 44

The British one!!!! OH NO!!!

Question 45

When was the Battle of New York?

Answer 45

August 27, 1776

Question 46

Why was the Battle of New York?

Answer 46

Gaining control over this area allowed them to control the port and Hudson River

Question 47

When was Trenton & Princeton, NJ (2 diff dates)

Answer 47

Trenton - December 26, 1776
Princeton - January 3, 1777