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Stack #4710954
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the main reason for fighting during French and Indian War? | Land |
| This stated that the Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. | The Proclamation of 1763 |
| This placed a tax on raw goods and made it legal for colonist's supplies to be seized. | The Sugar Act of 1764 |
| This act placed a tax on legal documents and pushed the colonists to the edge of revolution | The Stamp Act of 1765 |
| What is the name for a search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling? | Wrists of Assistance |
| Name of the man that is created with being the first person killed during the Revolution | Crispus Attucks |
| What is the set of laws that intended to punish Massachusetts and put an end to colonial challenges to the British authority | The Coercive Acts (called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists) |
| What was the name of the group of colonial delegates that met to issue the Declaration of Rights and Grievances | The Stamp Act Congress |
| The companies of civilian soldiers who boasted they were ready to fight at a minute's notice. | Minutemen |
| Name for the group of colonists that sided with the British | Loyalists |
| The first battle of the Anerican Revolution happened here | Lexington and Concord |
| This battle helped Americans gain confidence that they could stand up to the British | The Battle of Bunder Hill |
| This man published a pamphlet, Common Sense, to help change public opinion of the British in the colonies. | Thomas Paine |
| This man was considered the main author of the Declaration of Indepencence | Thomas Jefferson |
| A hit-and-run technique of fighting used by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes | Guerrilla warfare |
| After crossing the Delaware River, George Washington killed or captured 1,000 Hessians mercenaries in this town. | Trenton, New Jersey |
| This a feeling of confidence or enthusiasm | Morale |
| This battle convinced the French to sign a treaty that stated they were allies with the Americans | The Battle of Saratoga |
| This was the first nation to recognize the United States of America as an independent nation | France |
| He was the main British general forced to surrender at Yorktown | General Charles Cornwallis |
| This was a formal agreement that made the British recognize the USA as an independent nation | The Treaty of Paris (1783) |
| This is a form of government in which power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote | Republic (or Democratic Republic) |
| This man wrote the first state constitution in 1776 for Virginia | George Mason |
| This is the act or process of freeing enslaved persons | Manumission (or Emancipation) |
| This state was the first to pass a law encouraging the voluntary freeing of enslaved people, especially those who had fought in the revolution | Virginia |
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