APUSH Unit 2
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| What was the primary reason for the spectacular growth of America's population in the 18th century? | show 🗑
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| show | Pennsylvania
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| The Scots-Irish eventually became concentrated especially in... | show 🗑
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| True or false: Compared with the 17th century, American colonial society in the 18th century showed smaller gaps in wealth and status between rich and poor. | show 🗑
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| show | Clergyman
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| show | Agriculture
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| What experience did Indians and African Americans have in common in the colonies? | show 🗑
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| An unfortunate group of involuntary immigrants who ranked even below indentured servants on the American social scale | show 🗑
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| The "triangular trade" involved the sale of rum, molasses, and slaves among what ports? | show 🗑
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| show | Found ways to smuggle and otherwise evade the law by trading with other countries
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| Besides offering rest and refreshment, colonial taverns served an important function as centers of... | show 🗑
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| show | Its poorly qualified clergy and close ties with British authorities
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| What two denominations were considered "established" churches in the colonies? | show 🗑
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| show | It broke down sectional boundaries and created a greater sense of common American identity.
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| show | Using their power of the purse to withhold the governor's salary
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| show | Dutch (Doistch)
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| Ethnic group that had already relocated once before immigrating to America and settling largely on the Western frontier of the middle and southern colonies | show 🗑
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| show | Regulator Movement
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| show | Jayle Birds
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| show | Praying towns
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| show | Lawyer
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| Small but profitable trade route that linked New England, Africa, and the West Indies | show 🗑
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| show | Taverns
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| show | Established
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| Spectacular, emotional religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s | show 🗑
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| Ministers who supported the Great Awakening | show 🗑
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| show | "Old light" ministers
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| show | Colleges
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| show | Zenger case
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| show | Council
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| show | Poor Richard's Almanack
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| show | George Whitefield
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| show | John Peter Zenger
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| show | John Singleton Copley
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| Leading city of the colonies; home of Benjamin Franklin | show 🗑
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| show | African Americans
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| Dominant religious group in colonial Pennsylvania, criticized by others for their attitudes toward Indians | show 🗑
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| Former slave who became a poet at an early age | show 🗑
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| show | Paxton Boys and Regulators
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| Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial trade with French West Indies | show 🗑
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| show | Jonathan Edwards
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| Group that settled the frontier, made whiskey, and hated the British and other governmental authorities | show 🗑
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| show | Baptists
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| show | Patrick Henry
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| show | Anglican church
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| show | Led to the increase of American population to 1/3 of England's in 1775
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| show | Resulted in the development of a colonial "melting pot," only 1/2 English by 1775
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| show | Increased the wealth of the 18th century colonial elite
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| show | Was met by British attempts to restrict colonial trade, e.g. the Molasses Act
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| show | Created conditions for the Great Awakening to erupt ion the early 18th century
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| show | Stimulated a fervent, emotional style of religion, denominational divisions, and a greater sense of inter-colonial American identity
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| show | Marked the beginnings of freedom of printed political expression in the colonies
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| show | Prompted colonial assemblies to withhold royal governors' salaries
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| What was the result of upper-class fear of "democratic excesses" by poor whites? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the lack of artistic concerns, cultural tradition, and legislature in the colonies? | show 🗑
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| show | False. New France was more autocratically governed.
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| In what areas did New France do the most expansion? | show 🗑
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| show | The treaty gave the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France.
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| What was the original cause of the French and Indian War? | show 🗑
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| show | The Seven Years' War
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| What was the result of Benjamin Franklin's attempt to create intercolonial unity at the Albany Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | General Braddock
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| show | He concentrated British forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal.
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| What was the decisive event in the French-British contest for North America? | show 🗑
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| What are two factors that tended to promote intercolonial unity during the French and Indian War? | show 🗑
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| show | It removed their French and Spanish allies from Canada and Florida.
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| What was the effect of Pontiac's attack on frontier outposts after the French and Indian War? | show 🗑
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| show | It angered them because they thought it deprived them of the fruits of victory after the French and Indian War
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| Why did the French and Indian War create conflict between the British and American military? | show 🗑
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| show | It reduced the colonies' reliance on Britain and increased their sense of independence.
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| show | Huguenots
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| show | Louis XIV
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| Animal whose pelt provided great profits for the French empire and enhanced European fashion at enormous ecological cost | show 🗑
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| show | Jesuits
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| Far-running, high-living French fur trappers | show 🗑
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| Part of a certain British naval officer's anatomy that set off an imperial war with Spain | show 🗑
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| show | Louisbourg
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| show | Ohio Valley
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| Bloodiest European theater of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick the Great's troops drained French strength away from North America | show 🗑
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| Unification effort that Benjamin Franklin nearly led to success by his eloquent leadership and cartoon artistry | show 🗑
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| show | Washington
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| Fortress boldly assaulted by General Wolfe, spelling doom for New France | show 🗑
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| The "buckskin" colonial soldiers whose military success did nothing to alter British officers' contempt | show 🗑
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| show | Iroquois (Indians)
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| The larger European struggle of which the French and Indian War was part | show 🗑
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| Advocate of colonial unity at a 1754 meeting in upstate New York | show 🗑
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| British document that aroused colonial anger but failed to stop frontier expansion | show 🗑
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| French colonists in Nova Scotia brutally uprooted by the victorious British and shipped to Louisiana | show 🗑
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| show | War of Austrian Succession
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| Strategic French outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi | show 🗑
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| Indian leader whose frontier uprising caused the British to attempt to limit colonial expansion | show 🗑
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| Blundering British officer whose defeat gave the advantage to the French and Indians in the early stages of their war | show 🗑
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| show | Samuel de Champlain
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| show | Plains of Abraham
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| Strategic French stronghold; later renamed after a great British statesman | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| Site of a meeting that proposed greater unity and home rule among Britain's North American colonies | show 🗑
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| Conflict that began with George Washington's skirmish in Ohio and ended with the loss of France's North American empire | show 🗑
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| show | Robert de la Salle
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| Splendid British orator and organizer of the winning strategy against the French in North America | show 🗑
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| show | Decimated beaver populations while spreading the French empire
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| What was the effect of the four "world wars" between 1688 and 1763? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of competition for land and furs in the Ohio Valley? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the summoning of the Albany Congress by the British? | show 🗑
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| show | Resulted in decisive French defeat and British domination of North America
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| What was the effect of Wolfe's victory over Montcalm at Quebec? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the colonial militia's military success in the French and Indian War? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of colonial American smuggling and trading with French enemy? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the British issuance of the Proclamation of 1763? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne? | show 🗑
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| The British theory of mercantilism, by which the colonies were governed, held that... | show 🗑
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| show | Forcing Virginia tobacco planters to sell their product only in Britain
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| Why was the mobilization of "nonimportation" policies against the Stamp Act politically important? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of British officials enforcing the East India Company's tea monopoly and the three-pence tax on tea on the colonists? | show 🗑
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| How did the British react to the Boston Tea Party? | show 🗑
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| show | The revenues from the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America
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| Why did the passage of the Quebec Act arouse intense American fears? | show 🗑
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| show | Forming The Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods
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| What was the event that precipitated the first real shooting between the British and American colonists? | show 🗑
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| Who headed the British parliamentary government at the time of the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| The American rebellion was especially dangerous to the British because they were also worried about... | show 🗑
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| show | The Whig Party
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| show | The ability to enlist foreign soldiers, Loyalists, and Native Americans in their military forces
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| show | Fighting defensively on a large, agriculturally self-sufficient continent
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| What side did African Americans generally fight on during the Revolutionary War? | show 🗑
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| show | Mercantilism
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| The set of Parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of Britain | show 🗑
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| show | Enumerated products
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| Hated British courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent | show 🗑
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| British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members | show 🗑
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| The effective form of organized colonial resistance against the Stamp Act, which made homespun clothing fashionable | show 🗑
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| show | Tea
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| Underground networks of communication and propaganda, established by Samuel Adams, that sustained colonial resistance | show 🗑
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| Religion that was granted toleration in the trans-Allegheny West by the Quebec Act, arousing deep colonial hostility | show 🗑
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| British political party opposed to Lord North's Tories and generally more sympathetic to the colonial cause | show 🗑
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| German mercenaries hired by George III to fight the American revolutionaries | show 🗑
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| Paper currency authorized by Congress to finance the Revolution depreciated to near worthlessness | show 🗑
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| Effective organization created by the First Continental Congress to provide a total, unified boycott of all British goods | show 🗑
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| show | Patriots
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| show | Recoats
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| show | George Grenville
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| Lexington passed in 1765 but repealed the next year, after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce | show 🗑
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| Body led by John Adams that issued a Declaration of Rights and organized The Association to boycott all British goods | show 🗑
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| show | Quartering Act
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| show | Marquis de Lafayette
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| show | John Hancock
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| show | "Champagne Charley" Townshend
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| show | Samuel Adams
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| show | Intolerable Acts
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| show | George III
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| Alleged leader of radical protesters killed in Boston Massacre | show 🗑
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| show | Baron von Steuben
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| show | Sons and Daughters of Liberty
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| British governor of Massachusetts whose stubborn policies helped provoke the Boston Tea Party | show 🗑
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| show | Boston Tea Party
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| show | Led to gradual development of a colonial sense of independence years before the Revolution
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| show | Enforced restrictions on colonial manufacturing, trade, and paper currency
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| What was the effect of the large British debt incurred defending the colonies in the French and Indian War? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the passage of the Stamp Act? | show 🗑
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| show | Fired on colonial citizens in the Boston Massacre
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| What was the effect of the British government's attempt to maintain the East India Company's tea monopoly? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the Boston Tea Party? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the Intolerable Acts? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of a British attempt to seize the colonial militia's gunpowder supplies? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the Continental Congress's reluctance to tax Americans for war? | show 🗑
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| During the period of fighting between April 1775 and July 1776, the colonists claimed that their goal was... | show 🗑
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| Why did George Washington proved to be an especially effective commander of American forces in the Revolution? | show 🗑
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| show | An invasion of Canada by generals Arnold and Montgomery
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| show | They ended up deserting because they had little loyalty to the British
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| show | Their own experience with local and colonial democratic governance had prepared them for the idea
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| Paine's "Common Sense" was crucial in convincing many Americans that what they should fight for was.... | show 🗑
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| What group of people were more likely to be Loyalists? | show 🗑
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| Besides George Washington, the most militarily effective American officer in the early campaigns of 1776 and 1777 was.... | show 🗑
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| show | It brought about crucial French assistance to the Revolutionary cause
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| show | The practical self-interest of needing assistance to defeat the British
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| Where did the British especially rely on the numerous Loyalists to aid them in fighting the Patriots? | show 🗑
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| show | They believed that a victorious Britain would contain westward American expansion
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| The British defeat at Yorktown was brought about by George Washington's army and... | show 🗑
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| In the peace negotiations at Paris, the French wanted the Americans to acquire what territory? | show 🗑
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| The British yielded the Americans a generous peace treaty that included the western territories primarily because of... | show 🗑
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| show | Continental Congress
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| show | Canda
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| The inflammatory pamphlet that demanded independence and heaped scorn on "the Royal Brute of Great Britain" | show 🗑
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| The document that provided a lengthy explanation and justification of Richard Henry Lee's resolution that was passed by Congress on July 2, 1776 | show 🗑
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| The term by which the American Patriots were commonly known, to distinguish them from the American "Tories" | show 🗑
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| Another name for the American Tories | show 🗑
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| The church body most closely linked with Tory sentiment, except in Virginia | show 🗑
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| show | Hudson
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| Term for the alliance of Catherine the Great of Russia and other European powers who did not declare war but assumed a hostile neutrality toward Britain | show 🗑
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| The region that saw some of the Revolution's most bitter fighting, from 1780 to 1782, between American General Greene and British General Cornwallis | show 🗑
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| show | Privateers
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| British political party that replaced Lord North's Tories in 1782 and made a generous treaty with the United States | show 🗑
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| The western boundary of the United States established in the Treaty of Paris | show 🗑
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| The irregular American troops who played a crucial role in swaying the neutral civilian population toward the Patriot cause | show 🗑
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| The other European nation besides France and Spain that supported the American Revolution by declaring war on Britain | show 🗑
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| show | General Howe
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| show | Benedict Arnold
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| show | John Paul Jones
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Shrewd and calculatingly "homespun" American diplomat who forged the alliance with France and later secured a generous peace treaty | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Brant
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| show | Saratoga
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| show | Bunker Hill
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| show | Loyalists
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| show | George Washington
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| show | Yorktown
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| show | George Rogers Clark
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| A radical British immigrant who put an end to American toasts to King George | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Henry Lee
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| show | General Burgoyne
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| show | Caused King George to proclaim the colonies in revolt and import Hessian troops to crush them
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| show | Stirred growing colonial support for declaring independence from Britain
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| What was the effect of Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence"? | show 🗑
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| show | Won neutral or apathetic Americans over to the Patriot cause
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| What was the effect of the blundering of Burgoyne and Howe and the superb military strategy of Arnold and Washington? | show 🗑
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| show | Made France willing to become an ally of the United States
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| What was the effect of the trapping of Cornwallis between Washington's army and de Grasse's navy? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of the collapse of the North ministry and the Whig takeover of the British government? | show 🗑
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| show | Led to American acquisition of the West up to the Mississippi River
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| What was the effect of Jay's secret and separate negotiations with Britain? | show 🗑
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