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Rev War HGHS
Unit 1 Colonial to Constitution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name for a colonial militia who was ready in a short time | Minuteman |
| Group of separatists that settled at Plymouth | Pilgrims |
| This man secured land for the Quakers in the colonies | William Penn |
| Name given to the religious revival of the 1730s | Great Awakening |
| This term refers to the use of scientific reasoning to solve your problems in the mid 1700s | Enlightenment |
| Name given to the British response to the Boston Tea Party | Coercive or Intolerable Acts |
| This was passed by Parliament resulting in the Patriot rallying cry of "No taxation without representation" | Stamp Act |
| John Locke came up with this theory about the relationship between Government and it's people | Social Contract Theory |
| The name for colonists who supported the king | Loyalist or Torry |
| The name for colonists that supported Independence | Patriot |
| American Government set up in 1781 to replace the second continental congress-proposed by John Dickenson | Articles of Confederation |
| A person who agrees to give 4-7 years of his life for passage to America | Indentured Servant |
| Agreement at the Constitutional Convention which settled the issue concerning Congress's structure | Great Compromise |
| James Madison's Plan supporting large states at the Constitutional Convention | Virginia Plan |
| Plan at Constitutional Convention that supported the smaller states | New Jersey Plan |
| What was Daniel Shay protesting | Taxes |
| The people supported a strong National Government | Federalists |
| This was created by the Articles of Confederation Gov't setting up a blue print for settling new land | Land Ordinance of 1785 |
| These people wanted a weak central government and strong state govvernments | Anti Federalists |
| This officially ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris 1783 |
| This is a type of government that shares power between the national and state governments | Federalism |
| This man wrote a pro independence pamphlet called Common Sense | Tom Paine |
| This was a secret Patriot group founded by Sam Adams | Sons of Liberty |
| These groups were used to spread patriot news throughout the colonies | Committees of Correspondence |
| This act from parliament in 1763 forbid colonials from crossing the Appalachian mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| The famous ship John Paul Jones used to defeat the British ship Serapis | Bonhomme Richard |
| A fast American ship used to raid British merchant ships | Privateers |
| This ensures equality among the 3 branches of American Government | System of Checks and Balances |
| This man wrote the declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| This man was the first secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton |
| This man led the Puritans in settling Mass. Colony | John Winthrop |
| The worst part of the Triangular trade for slaves was called the? | Middle Passage |
| Why did the British march to Lexington and concord | To seize ammunition and to arrest Sam Adams |
| This battle in Boston was a British victory mainly because the Colonists ran out of ammunition | Bunker Hill |
| This man helped the US by denying the British the use of New Orleans | Bernardo de Galvez |
| This was the site of the Constitutional Convention | Philadelphia |
| Anti Federalists originally opossed the Constitution because it was missing what? | Bill of Rights |
| This women helped the revolutionary cause by writing pamphlets for independence | Mercy Otis Warren |
| Cecelius Calvert helped establish what colony for Catholics | Maryland |
| James Oglethorpe helped to establish what colony as a buffer against the Spanish | Georgia |
| Washington surprised the British garison of Hessian soldiers at this town in New Jersey | Trenton |
| He was known as the Swamp fox | Francis Marion |
| He was known as a "gentleman" to his troops and surrndered at Saratoga | Johnny Burgoyne |
| This man led the British war effort in the South and surrendered to Washington at Yorktown | Lord Cornwallis |
| This was the British Prime Minister during the French and Indian War | William Pitt |
| This woman was told to leave by the Puritans because of her religious beliefs | Anne Hutchinson |
| This British man was hung as a spy when found with plans for West Point . | John Andre |
| This woman dressed up as a man in order to fight in the Rev. War | Deborah Sampson |
| This man secured victory at Yorktown by fending off the British Fleet | Admiral de Grasse |
| This young frenchman befriended Washington and later commanded American troops in the Rev. War | Marquis de Lafayette |
| This man helped to train Washington's army at Valley Forge | Baron von Stueben |
| This Finance Minister of England proposed a series of new taxes on the colonists after the Stamp Act was repealed. | Charles Townsend |
| He was named Commander of the Patriot Army by the 2nd Continental Army | George Washington |
| This is the name of England's law making body. | Parliament |
| What battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War | Battle of Saratoga |
| Where did American General Herkimer win a major victory over British General St. Leger? | Battle of Mohawk Valley or Oriskany |
| What Battle helped Americans gain control of Georgia and the Carolinas | Battle of Cowpens |
| Thomas Jefferson was the author of what famous document | Declaration of Independence |
| How many amendments to the Constitution are there? | 27 |
| The battle of Bunker Hill took place in this city | Boston |
| What war were the British trying to pay for by raising Colonial taxes | French and Indian or 7 Years War |
| Colony in which Lexington and Concord are located | Mass. |
| Name one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers | Madison, Jay, Hamilton |
| What were those against ratification of the Constitution called | Anti-Federalists |
| Commodity that continued to be taxed after the Townshend Acts were repealed | Tea |
| Religion of France | Catholic |
| Trade route controlled by French city of New Orleans | Mississippi River |
| Monarch of England during the Revolutionary War | King George III |
| What peace treaty ended the French and Indian War | Treaty of Paris 1763 |
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