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Revolutionary War Test Flashcards

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This act required colonists to provide housing and food and other necessities to British soldiers

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Quartering act

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This act taxed all paper products from letters to playing cards

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Stamp act

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This accident or cold murder resulted in five colonists dead

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Boston massacre

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This series of acts included an order that Britain took over the Massachusetts government and that Britain controlled all town meetings and more troops had to go over to the colonies to enforce British laws.

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Intolerable acts

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This event lost 90,000 pounds of tea.

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Boston tea party

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This act was a tax on paint, glass, paper, and tea

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Town shed act

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Group of Indians that sided with the French for the French and Indian war

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Huron

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This tribe helped the English In the French and Indian war

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Iroquois

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What is a fence sitter

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A person who either, doesn’t agree with either side or agrees with both.

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Why did the British tax colonists after the French and Indian war

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They owed a lot of money in the debt

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What is the proclamation of 1763

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It says that colonists can’t settle west of the Appalachian mountains to keep peace with the Indian tribes.

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Why were the colonists upset about the proclamation of 1763

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Because they needed more room for the people crossing to the colonies.

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12
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What percent was patriot

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40%

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13
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What percent was loyalist

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20%

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14
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What percent was a fence sitter

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40%

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What did the colonists feel about breaking apart from Britain and why

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They didn’t want to break apart because Britain was a big nation and they could be ally’s

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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17
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What percent of the colonies needed to vote yes for freedom

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All

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When was the Declaration of Independence ratified

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July 2nd 1776

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19
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How many days did it take to get everyone to sign

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2 days

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When was the first Independence Day

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July 4 1776

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21
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Who wrote common sense

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Thomas Paine

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What did Thomas Paine write

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Common sense

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23
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What colony did Richard lee represent

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Massachusetts

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What did Samuel Adams lead.

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Sons of liberty

25
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What did Benjamin franklin do

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He sealed the deal with France.

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Who led the Boston tea party

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Sons of liberty

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Stamp act

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All paper products

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Year of the townshed act

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1767

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Boston tea party year

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1773

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Intolerable acts year

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1774

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First continental congress year

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1774

32
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What did they agree on at the first continental congress

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: train and arm a militia
: boycott Britain
: intolerable acts are illegal violations of people’s rights
: Patrick Henry’s unity quote they are now Americans

33
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Olive branch petition date

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July 5th 1775

34
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What and why was the olive branch petition

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They sent it to king George 3 to try and become friends with Britain.

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What did king George do to the olive branch petition

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He ignored it

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Second coninental congress date

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June 1775

37
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How many people showed up to the second continental congress

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56 delegates no Georgia

38
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What year was common sense written

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1776

39
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What is common sense

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A pamphlet filled with punchy lines to win the colonists over to freedom

40
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What specific rights did the Declaration of Independence contain

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People are born with certain rights
King George 3 has taken these rights away from us
So we are forming our own country

41
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What part did South Carolina make Thomas Jefferson remove

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Slavery

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What date was the Declaration of Independence ratified

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July 2nd 1776

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What dates was the Declaration of Independence signed

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July fourth to August second 1776

44
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Paul revere

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Midnight ride with the British are coming

The regulars are out

45
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Charles Cornwallis

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A British General who lost Yorktown

46
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John Burgoyne

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A British General who lost Saratoga

47
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William Howe

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Highest ranked British General who took over Pennsylvania

48
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John Adams

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Leader of the independence act

49
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What are inalienable rights

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Everyone is born with certain rights. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

50
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What is treason? Why were some of the rebels guilty of this?

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Treason is when you are plotting against ones government. The rebels were guilty of this when they

51
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When and why did the first continental congress meet.

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October 1774

They were there to discuss the intolerable acts.

52
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When and why did the second continental congress meet.

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May 1775

They met to decide the leader of the continental army and the Declaration of Independence

53
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Why was the battle of Trenton significant

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It was a major turning point in the revolutionary war

The patriots surprisingly beat the British

54
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Why was the battle of Saratoga significant

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October 1777

A turning point in the war and the rebels won

55
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Describe Burgoynes strategy to capture New York

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He had spent the last few months working out a detailed plan for winning the war.
Slice America in two. This would be done by attacking the centrally located state of north from the north and south at the same time.

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What did William Prescott mean when he said don’t fire until, you see the whites of their eyes.

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He meant that don’t fire until you are close enough to them to see the whites of their eyes. He said this because they did not have much gunpowder and the guns didn’t have an accurate aim from far away and they didn’t want to waste. So when they could see the whites of their eyes then they could fire.

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How did Nathaniel Green and swamp fox play a role in the patriot victory.

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They slowed down the British troops because they made tiny attack against them to slow them down

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