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Unit 2: Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Revolition was caused by the different views that the Americans and British had about what? | Their Relationship |
| How did the British see their relationships with the Americans? | As a top down/ parent child relationship |
| How did the Americans see their relationship with the British? | As equals |
| What caused the Americans to believe that they were equal to the British? | Independence since 1600s |
| 4 Ethnic groups that moved to America for political freedom | Germans, Dutch, Scots, and Irish |
| 5 Religious groups that had moved to America for religious freedom | Quakers, Huguenots,Presbterians, Jews, and Puritans |
| Caused the Americans and British to become aware of their differences | French and Indian war. |
| What were the 2 countries that fought to control North America? And which country lost the war? | Britain and France. France lost. |
| Areas that the French lost at the French and Indian war | Canada and the west of the Appalachian Mts. |
| How did the French and Indian war affected the Britians? | Debts |
| How did Britain wanted to change their relationship with the colonist as a result for the war? | With taxes |
| How did the Americans wanted to change their relationship with Britian when the French and Indian war ended? | They wanted to loose their relationship more, and have more independence. |
| Britian wanted the Americans to keep moving west from where? | Appalachian Mts |
| What was too expensive to defend the colonist from? | Indians |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Law that Britian passed to stop the westward expansion |
| Reasons Britain created new taxes | Debt because of the French and Indian war, Cost of protecting Americans from Indians |
| 3 Items British tax | Legal documents, tea, and sugar. |
| Stamp Act | First major tax that angered many americans. |
| Americans violently challenged the British in what incident? | Boston Massacre. |
| How did Americans challenged the Tea Act? | Boston Tea Party. |
| Intolerable Act | British law that shutted down Boston and severely threatened the colonist rights and livelihood. |
| Continental Congress | Organization created in response of the Intolerable Act |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | Skrimish that started the Revolution War. |
| Minutemen | Group of Americans that fought at Lexington and Concord |
| Periond in which Locke wrote about people's rights | Englightment |
| Locke's 3 natural rights | Life, liberty, and property. |
| Locke stated that the power resided in | The people |
| Locke believed that people created the goverment through what type of agreement? | Social Contract |
| Locke's belief of the primary reason for goverment | Protecting people's rights |
| Ordered liberty | term that expresses the idea that people voluntarily agree to obey the laws. |
| Who determines what powers the goverment should have? | The people |
| When can people overthrow the goverment? | When it fails to protect their rights |
| Type of goverment prior to Locke: | Dictatorship |
| Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas paine, in which he blames the King for the colonie's problems |
| Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Thomas paine, in which he blames the King for the colonie's problems |
| People who read the pamphlet, and got convinced by it | Commonors |
| People who read the pamphlet, and got convinced by it | Commonors |
| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| When was the Declaration of Independence written? | After the Lexington and Concord battle, at the Second Continental Congress |
| When was the Declaration of Independence written? | After the Lexington and Concord battle, at the Second Continental Congress |
| Part of the Declaration containing Locke's ideas | Preamble |
| Par of the Declaration containing Paine's ideas | List of grievances |
| Par of the Declaration containing Paine's ideas | List of grievances |
| What does the Declaration assert? | That it's self evident, and that all men are equal |
| Jefferson's 3 natural rights for people | Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. |
| According to Jefferson, goverments are instituted to secure what? | People's rights |
| Goverment gets its power from... | The people. |
| People can abolish a goverment when it is | destructive |
| Long term political effect of the Declaration | Equality. |
| What political right has been extended to more and more people? | The right to vote. |
| How has the US tried to give all people the skills and preparation necessary to succeed? | Free public education |
| The judicial system now applies to what group of people? | Everyone |
| Long term social effect of the Declaration | Liberty |
| 4 groups that have recieved civil rights | women, immigrants, backs, and religious groups |
| Long term effect economic effect from the Declaration | Pursuit of happiness |
| What has the goverment protected in order to help home and landowners? | Property Rights |
| Patriots | Groups of Americans that wanted complete independence from Britain |
| Patriots agreed with whom's ideas? | Locke and Paine |
| ''Give me liberty, or give me death'' | Patrick Henry |
| Continental Arme | Group where Patriots joined to fight the Britains |
| Loyalist; Tories | Group of Americans that remained loyal to the British |
| Loyalist's 2 types of ties they believed that attached America and Britain... | Cultural and Economic |
| Neutrals | Made up the majority of the colonist |
| Nation vital for the American Victory | France |
| Negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with the French | Ben Franklin |
| Where was the war unpopular? | Britain |
| Led the Continental Army | George Washington |
| Leadership | Kept the Army together during difficult times |
| Washington retreated from battles why? | Because they could've destroyed hum |
| American victory in what battle largely ended the war? | Yorktown |
| Key for winning the battle | French troops and fleet |
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