American Rev

Question 1

Timeline:

Answer 1

1763: Pontiac’s Revellion
October 1763: Proclamatino of 1763
1764: Sugar Act passed by Grenville
1764: currency act
1765: quartering act
1765: stamp act
1766: repeal stamp act; declatory act
1767: townshend acts
1770: repeal townshend acts
1773: tea act
1774: intolerable acts

Question 2

writs of assistance

Answer 2

legal documents that permitted customs collectors to search buildings

Question 3

Continential Army strenghts & weaknesses

Answer 3

Strengths:
- fighting on homefront
- privateers (privately owned ships authorized to attack enemy)
Weakness:
- disorganized
- hard to keep for conscription

Question 4

Why did Britain plan to capture New York?

Answer 4

Strong loyalist population
Located midway between New England and southern states

Question 5

Wars that boosted morale

Answer 5

Trenton & Princeton

Question 6

Turning Point: what and result

Answer 6

Saratoga; convinced French for alliance in Feb 1778. Spain later joined US

Question 7

Winter of ______

Answer 7

Valley forge

Question 8

`Battle of Monmouth: Who won

Answer 8

Washington won; drove British out of New York

Question 9

Highlights of Battle of Trenton

Answer 9

• Christmas night
• travelled across Delaware River into New Jersey

Question 10

Worst Patriot defeat

Answer 10

Battle of Charlestown

Question 11

What did Victory at 1781 Yorktown lead to

Answer 11

Cornwallis’ defeat; led directly to peace treaties
- sang “world turned upside down” “Yankee Doodle”

Question 12

American negotiators

Answer 12

Ben Franklin
John Adams
John Fay
Henry Laurens

Question 13

The shot heard around the world
Which battle?

Answer 13

battles of Lexington and Concord

Question 14

Treaty of Paris year

Answer 14

1783

Question 15

Who are strongholds?

Answer 15

Loyalists (to Great britain)

Question 16

Financial aftermath of Fr-Ind War for G.B.?

Answer 16

Debt doubles to 125 million pounds

Question 17

Revenue/Sugar Act passed by who?

Answer 17

British PM Grenville

Question 18

Sugar Act: Date and what

Answer 18

1764
Duty on molasses and sugar destroyed triangle trade between Britain, colonies, and West Indies
MAIN PURPOSE: REGULATE TRADE

Question 19

Stamp Act: Date and purpose

Answer 19

1765: Main purpose: raise money to support British army in colonies

Question 20

Where did First Continental Congress meet

Answer 20

Carpenter’s Hall in Philadephia

Question 21

What was 1st Continental Congress for: 3 things they produced

Answer 21

• unified response to Coercive acts
  1. Declaration of Rights
  2. Established militia
  3. Continental Association (colonies would refuse to import goods to Britain)

Question 22

Whose strategy was “divide and conquer”: America or Britain?

Answer 22

B

Question 23

Whose strategy was “attrition”: America or Britain?

Answer 23

A

Question 24

“Give me liberty or give me death”
Who said it and when?

Answer 24

1775
Patrick Henry

Question 25

2nd continental congress: When and accomplishments (3)

Answer 25

Summer 1775 1. Continental Army 2. Washington as commander 3. Issued Declaration of Independence (1776)

Question 26

Phase I, II and III Dates and name

Answer 26

I: 1775-1776 Northern Campaign II: 1777-1778 NY and PA III: 1780-1781 Southern Strategy

Question 27

Out of the 13 states, which state did not help create the constitution after War of Independence?

Answer 27

Rhode Island

Question 28

Which compromise (out of Connecticut, Virginia, or New Jersey) was accepted as the Great Compromise?

Answer 28

Connecticut: - bicameral legislative - House of Representatives based on population

Question 29

What is the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 29

Convention of delegates from 12 out of 13 states, met in Philadelphia, to create constitution