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American Revolution
8th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the French and Indian War about? | The English were fighting to the French and Indians over territory. |
| What is another name for the French and Indian War? | The Seven Years War. |
| Who won the French and Indian War? | The English. |
| How long did the French and Indian War take? | Seven Years. |
| What impact did the French and Indian War have on GA? | It made France give up all French colonies in North America. It also made the Spanish give up La Florida. |
| What ended the French and Indian War? | The treaty of Paris, 1763. |
| Why is the Seven Years War important? | This leads to the taxes that start the revolution. |
| What is the Stamp Act? | The Stamp act is the tax that they placed on almost all documents in the thirteen colonies. |
| Who issued the Stamp Act? | The British Empire. |
| Who was affected by the Stamp Act? | The Colonists. |
| Why did the British create the Stamp Act? | They needed to raise money to cover the cost of the French and Indian war. What better way than to tax the people you were fighting for, right? |
| What events happened that showed that the Colonists were mad? | The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. |
| Why did the British tax only the Colonists? | The British thought that they could tax the Colonists because they fought for their land |
| Why does the Stamp Act matter? | The Stamp Act makes the Colonists angry enough to start thinking of rebellion. |
| What are the five Intolerable Acts? | The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quartering Act, the Quebec Act, and the Administration of Justice Act are the five Intolerable Acts. |
| What did the Boston Port Act do? | It closed the Boston Port and hurt the trade. |
| What did the Massachusetts Government Act do? | It didn't allow the colony to have a government. There was only one meeting per year. |
| What did the Quartering Act do? | It gave the British permission to go to any house and force the owners to let them in to sleep. |
| What did the Quebec Act do? | It expanded the Canadian territory that belonged to the British to Ohio Valley. That made the Colonists give up more land. |
| What did the Administration of Justice Act do? | It moved all of the trials to Britain. |
| Where was the first Continental Congress meeting? | It was in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia. |
| What colony was the only Colony not at the meeting? | Georgia was the only colony not at the Continental Congress meeting. |
| When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? | July 4, 1776. |
| Where was the first armed conflict? | It was at Lexington and Concord. Also known as the shot heard around the world. |
| How many of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence were from Georgia? | Three of the signers. |
| Who were the three Georgian signers of the Declaration of Independence? | Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton were the three signers of the Declaration of Independence that were from Georgia. |
| Which of the three Georgian signers was a doctor? | Lyman Hall. |
| The three parts of the Declaration of Independence are...? | The Preamble, the List of Grievances, and the Official Declaration. |
| What is the Preamble? | The Preamble states the reasons for wanting to separate from Britain. It says that All Men Are Created Equal. |
| What is the List of Grievances? | It is all of the complaints that they have about the British. The biggest one in NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. |
| What is the Official Declaration? | It is what officially declared the colonies to be free. It made it the United States of America. |
| Who were the Whigs? | The Whigs is another name for the Colonists that didn't like England. |
| Who were the Tories? | The Tories were the loyalists who supported England. |
| Who wanted to separate from England? | The Whigs wanted to Separate from England. |
| Who was loyal to England? | The Tories Wanted to stay with England. |
| What did the Treaty of Paris 1783 do? | It made America an independent country. |
| What was the Battle of Kettle Creek? | It was a battle in Georgia that the Patriots won. It forced the British to retreat from Augusta. |
| What was the Siege of Savannah? | The British originally took Savannah, GA. Later in the war, There was a battle over Savannah that lasted 90 minutes and was the second bloodiest battle in the war. It was called the Siege of Savannah. |
| Who is Count Casimir Pulaski? | He is a soldier who fought in the Siege of Savannah. |
| What are the Articles of Confederation? | They are America's first written government. |
| Who were the two signers that were from Georgia? | Abraham Baldwin, and William Few. |
| What is the 3/5 Compromise? | It states that slave count as 3/5 of a person. |
| What is that Great Compromise? | It made the Government go from one house to two houses. Unicameral to Bicameral. |
| What are some of the strengths of the Articles of Confederation? | Citizens could vote for people to represent them, and the representatives could declare war and coin money. |
| What are some of the disadvantages of the Articles of Confederation? | There is no strong national government. Also, no leader, no army without permission of the states, and they could not collect taxes. No laws about trading. |
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