History & Geography Self Test 3
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- Revival in America, 1730's and 1740's.
- Great Awakening
- Ordered colonists not to settle west of the Appalacians
- Proclamation of 1763
- Parliament said it could control the colonies any way it wanted
- Declaratory Act
- Five people were killed after throwing things at British soldiers on guard duty
- Boston Massacre
- Beginning of the War for Independence
- Lexington
- All of the events that changed the British colonies into the United States of America
- American Revolution
- Accepted on July 4, 1776
- Declaration of Independence
- Paul Revere rode to warn the patriots there
- Lexington
- War that gave the British control of Canada and all of the land east of the Mississippi
- French and Indian War
- George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards
- Great Awakening
- Colonists had to feed and house British soldiers
- Quartering Act
- Sons of Liberty refused to accept the tea because of the tax on it
- Boston Tea Party
- Battle for Breeds Hill near Boston; British marched straight up and many of their men were killed or hurt
- Bunker Hill
- Tax on goods from Britain: tea, paint, glass
- Townshend Act
- Closed Boston harbor, put the city under military rule, took away many of Massachusetts's freedoms
- Intolerable Acts
- "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal..."
- Declaration of Independence
- The First Continental Congress met to discuss these laws
- Intolerable Act
- The British began to enforce the trade laws after these
- French and Indian War & Proclamation of 1763
- British soldiers were attacked all along their retreat back to Boston
- Lexington
- He was a Boston patriot who strongly opposed the British.
- Samuel Adams
- He founded Rhode Island with complete freedom of religion.
- Roger Williams
- He was a Quaker who started the colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
- William Penn
- He was the king of Britain during the Revolution.
- George III
- He was the Prime Minister of Britain who passed the Stamp Act.
- George Grenville
- He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- Thomas Jefferson
- He helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth to survive.
- Squanto
- He led the British to victory in the French and Indian War.
- William Pitt
- He organized the Native Americans to drive the colonists out of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
- Pontiac
- He was commander-in-chief of the American army during the Revolutionary War.
- George Washington
- What was the first British colony in America?
- Virginia (Jamestown)
- What happened to General Braddock on his way to Fort Dusquesne, during the French and Indian War?
- He was ambushed by the French and killed
- What did the colonists do to fight the Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts, and the Intolerable Acts that put pressure on British merchants?
- boycott
- Why did Americans not want to be tried in Admiralty Court?
- They had no jury and they were assumed to be guilty.
- What was the first Congress for the colonies that nine of them attended?
- Stamp Act Congress
- What was the name of Thomas Paine's pamphlet that convinced many Americans to fight for independence?
- Common Sense
- What were the three parts of a colonial government?
- Any order: a. governor b. council c. assembly
- What was the purpose of the British trade laws?
- to make money for Britain and the British people
- T or F: The people of Britain had more freedom than the American colonists.
- false
- T or F: Many American men learned how to use a gun because of the danger from Indians on the frontier.
- true
- T or F: George Washington fought in the French and Indian War.
- true
- T or F: Europeans explored the New World because they wanted to find a water route to Asia.
- true
- T or F: Georgia was founded by Puritans looking for the freedom to worship God in their own way.
- false