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American Revolution
This Study Stack is designed to help you prepare for our upcoming unit 4&6 test.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What role did taxes play in the American Revolution? | they were upset because they were tax and there was no representation |
| Why did Great Britain institute these taxes? | to pay off war debt (French and Indian war) |
| Sugar Act | decreased taxes but the colonists still were made because the British enforced this tax and put 3 cent tax on coffee, indigo, and wine |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to allow soldiers to stay in their homes (had to pay to house them) |
| Townshend Acts | tax on imported goods led,etc. |
| Tea Act | tax on tea and they were mad because, it allowed British East Indian tea company to monopolize the tea market in the colonies |
| Coercive/Intolerable Acts | limited to colonists rights- shut down Boston Harbor |
| What ways did the Colonists protest the taxes? | Boston Tea Party, boycotts |
| What was the Boston Tea Party in response to? | Response to the Tea act, which required all colonists to purchase tea from England, which held a hefty tax |
| What happen at the Boston Tea Party | That night they dumped more then 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor in protest |
| What is the battle of Concord & Lexington | on April 19th more than 700 British troops reached Lexington to find 70 militiamen waiting for them. A brief firefight occurred and 8 militiamen lay dead. The British marched towards Concord and destroyed military supplies before they were meet by 7,000 m |
| What is the battle of Yorktown | The significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War |
| What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 written by the British for their American colonies? | To prevent conflicts between colonists and Native Americans by outlawing settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| What answer best explains why American colonists were angry about the Proclamation of 1763? | It banned them from settling in the Ohio River Valley, which they believed was their right after helping to win the French and Indian War. |
| What was the significance of the French-American alliance in the outcome of the Revolutionary War? | It provided the Continental army with military aid, fresh troops,food, and supplies, which helped secure victories like the Battle of Yorktown. |
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