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SS Exam 7th
1st semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the French and Indian War contribute to the American Revolution? | British in debt after war. raised money by passing the stamp act on colonist. |
| What were the land claims after the French and Indian War? | French had a few sugar growing islands. spain gets Louisiana britian gets upper Canada and florida |
| What was the American fort taken over by British and renamed Fort Pitt | Fort Duquesne |
| Who was William Pitt? | Head of the British government during the French and Indian War |
| What were the objections to the Stamp Act? | the colonist said no taxation without representation |
| What were the causes of the Proclamation of 1763? | british leaders thught that morefighting would take place on American indian lands |
| What were the effects of the Proclamation of 1763 | the law made an imaginary line across the Appalachian mountains hat wouldn't let British cross to trade with the Americans |
| Who were the Sons of Liberty? | Colonists who protested British policies |
| What was the Committee of Correspondence? | a government formed by the pratiot leaders |
| What were the Townshend Acts? | a series of acts passed by parliament |
| What was the Boston Massacre? | when the british attacked back on the colonist and killed about to 8 people |
| What was the Tea Act? | when the british raised taxes on all tee |
| What were the Intolerable Acts? | the punishment for the boston tea party |
| What was the Boston Tea Party? | when the colonist dumped all he tea that cam in over he boston harbor |
| What was the British East India Tea Company? | company ade by queen Elizabeth I |
| Lexington and concord | soilders were going to leington but got stopped in concord so they fought and won andwent to lexington |
| What was the citizen army that served during times of emergency? | Militia |
| Rode through town warning "The British Are Coming" | Paul Revere |
| Blacksmith leader of Green Mountain Boys | Ethan Allen |
| "I've not yet begun to fight" | John Paul Jones |
| Urged people to fight against Britian. Wrote RULE and COMMON SENSE | Thomas Paine |
| British general who surrounded Yorktown | Cornwallis |
| who trained American soilders | Benedict Arnold |
| who came out of the swamps during the night | Frances Marion |
| who was French and visited Missouri | Marquis de Lafayette |
| What were the advantages of the American army? | they lived very close and fighting for their homes land and shops |
| What were the disadvantages of the American army? | they had the worst army in America |
| What were the advantages of the British army? | they had the best army in the world |
| What were the disadvantages of the British army? | hey had to wait a long time for troops and ammunition to come |
| What were the 3 main parts of the Declaration of Independence? | national rights independence british wrongs |
| what was the battle against the hessians troops | Battle of Trenton |
| What were the agreements of the Treaty of Paris? | britian and French signed the petition |
| What were the new borders of the Treaty of Paris? | the great lakes mississipi florida |
| What were the flaws of the Articles of Confederation? | 1. Couldn't repay borrowed money- printed new money which became worthless - states printed their own money 2. Congress couldn't solve disputes between states 3. Spain closed Mississippi to Americans in New Orleans 4. Britain refused to withdraw troops |
| What were the successes of the Articles of Confederation? | paper money was invented |
| what was the rebellion called when the colonist rebelled on taxes | Shays' Rebellion |
| wht was the name of the convention in Philadelphia | Constitutional Convention |
| What was James Madison's role in the Constitutional Convention? | to write down all that was said at the meeting |
| Nat'l government with 3 branches, executive, legislative, and judicial | Virginia Plan |
| what was the proposal to give states senators and representatives not by population | New Jersey Plan |
| Passed the laws, 2 houses - Senate and House of Representatives | Legislative Branch |
| Carried out the laws | Executive Branch |
| Decided if the laws were fair and constitutional | Judicial Branch |
| what was the compromise called that said all states get 2 senators and representatives by population | Great Compromise |
| 3/5 of all slaves counted in the population for determining representatives | Three-Fifths Compromise |
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