Revolutionary War

Question 1

Articles of the Confederation.

Answer 1

The United States’ first attempt at a national government

Question 2

Confederacy

Answer 2

The states were bound together in this as a nation

Question 3

Large States

Answer 3

believed that due to greater population, they should receive more votes in Congress

Question 4

Battle of Kettle Creek

Answer 4

Small Revolutionary war battle in Georgia where Patriot forces, led by Elijah Clarke, defeated 600+ loyalists; one of the few patriot victories in the state.

Question 5

Costitution

Answer 5

Small Revolutionary war battle in Georgia where Patriot forces, led by Elijah Clarke, defeated 600+ loyalists; one of the few patriot victories in the state.

Question 6

First Continental Congress

Answer 6

(1774)-The first convention of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that gathered to discuss the colonists’ reaction to the Intolerable acts.

Question 7

Loyalists

Answer 7

Colonists that are loyal to Great Britian.

Question 8

Patriot

Answer 8

A colonists who wanted to become independent from Great Britain

Question 9

Casmir Pulaski

Answer 9

Polish nobleman who fought for the Patriot cause; Was killed during the Siege of Savannah.

Question 10

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 10

Royal proclamation that forbade English colonists from settling newly acquired land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 11

Preamble

Answer 11

The beginning of a document that explains why the document exists in the case of the declaration of independence the preamble explains natural rights.

Question 12

Siege of Savannah

Answer 12

A failed attempt by the French and Americans to recapture Savannah during the Revolution

Question 13

Sons of Liberty

Answer 13

A group established in Boston but had chapters in other colonies to protest the Stamp Act and other English taxes.

Question 14

Constitutional Convention

Answer 14

Meeting of leaders to “revise” the Articles

Question 15

James Wright

Answer 15

reinstated as royal governor after the Tories took back Savannah

Question 16

Boston Massacre

Answer 16

British soldiers fired on angry, protesting colonists in Boston

Question 17

Georgia

Answer 17

the only colony to not participate in the First Continental Congress

Question 18

Intolerable Acts

Answer 18

These were passed by the British Parliament as punishment for the Boston Tea Party

Question 19

Boston Tea Party

Answer 19

An act of protest that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773; A group of colonists dressed as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea in Boston Harbor to protect the tea act.

Question 20

Elijah Clarke

Answer 20

Lieutenant Colonel of Patriot forces who led the victory at the Battle of Kettle Creek.

Question 21

Declaration of Independence

Answer 21

Three part document that discusses natural rights, explains the wrongs committed by King George, and offers an official Declaration of Independence from England.

Question 22

Ratify

Answer 22

To pass the legislature as a law

Question 23

7 years war

Answer 23

Global conflict between the European great powers; the French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.

Question 24

Stamp Act

Answer 24

Established by the British government to help repay the cost of the French and Indian war. The act placed a tax on all legal documents, newspapers, and other paper products.

Question 25

Tories

Answer 25

Another term for loyalist

Question 26

Bill of Rights

Answer 26

The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Question 27

Small states

Answer 27

believed that each state should get equal numbers of votes in Congress to be fair

Question 28

Treaty of Paris 1763

Answer 28

This officially ended the French and Indian War