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SS Chp.5
chapter 5 sections 3 and 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who rode to warn colonist that the British were headed to the Concord magazine? | Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, and William Dawes |
| What was significant about the fight at Concord? | Beginning of the fight for colonist independence |
| What are the 4 parts of the Decleration? | Proclomation of the exsistence of the new America Nation |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the constitution and the Decleration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense" and it recomended complete independence |
| Samuel Adams | Started continental congress and helped write decleration of independence |
| Benjamin Franklin | Accomplished man who was an influential member to the PA legislature |
| Why did the colonial leaders meet in 1774? | discuss united response to British polocies |
| What was the continental congress? | prominent colonial leaders who established a political group to fight for American interests |
| Name 7 delegates who attended the continental congress... | samuel adams, john adams, richard henry lee, patrick henry, and george washington |
| What did the delegates do? | made a statement of grievances, called for repeal of 13 acts of parliment, voted to boycott all british goods and trade |
| What group passed a resolution to form militias? | delegates |
| General Sir Thomas Gage | had several thousand soldiers and used them to follow orders from the British government |
| April 1775 | General Sir Thomas Gage and his men attacked Lexington and Concord to destroy the supplies at the magazine but when they got there almost all the supplies were gone |
| Who attacked the British on their return to Boston? | minutemen, they through rocks and shot them, 200 wounded and 73 killed from british side |
| Who captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain? When? | Ethan Allen and the Green Mtn. Boys |
| When was the battle of bunker hill? | June 16, 1775 |
| Patriots | wanted to fight british |
| Loyalist | wanted to remain with Britain |
| When did the second continental congress met for the first time? | May 10, 1775 |
| Who governed the colonies after the second continental congress met? | congress |
| What could the congress do when they were in charge? | Authorized the printing of money |
| What happened on March 17, 1776? | Washington and his troops surrounded Boston and drove the british out. |
| What happened after Fort Ticonderoga was attacked by british? | struck and captured Montreal on November 1776 |
| What happened when the colonist tried to take Quebec? | they failed and had to what to winter to return to ticonderoga |
| Who were members of the committee that who made a draft of the declaration of independence? | Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston |
| What happened on July 2, 1776 | 12 colonies voted for independence |
| When was the declaration approved? | July 4 1776 |
| Who was the first to sign the declaration? | John Hancock |
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