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American Revolution Test
American Revolution Test Review
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History
8th Grade
10/19/2010

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French and Indian War
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1754
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Stamp Act
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1765
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Boston Massacre
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1770
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Boston Tea Party
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1773
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Cause: French and Indian War

 

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Effect: British taxed colonists to pay war debt
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Cause: Stamp Act
Definition
Effect: angered the colonist so they created the Stamp Act Congress
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What is the slogan referring to the colonists not having representation in parliment?
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No Taxation without Representation
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Declaration of Indpendence view on equality
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All men (everyone) are created equal
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Unalienable Rights
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Rights that cannot be taken away

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Author of Declaration of Independence
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Jefferson
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Jefferson said the government gets its powers from...
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The people
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When was the Declaration signed?
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1776
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Patrick Henry...
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wanted the colonies to go to war for their independence
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Samual Adams organized what group?
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the Sons of Liberty
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Common Sense
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written to convince the colonists that is was common sense that they should be their own country
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Battle of Saratoga
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1777
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Valley Forge
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1778
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Yorktown
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1781
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Treaty of Paris
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1783
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"Shot Heard Round' the World"
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Lexington
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Turning Point in the war
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Saratoga
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Advantages the American soldiers had over the British
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Familiarty with the land, reason for fighting, support from the French
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Advantages the British had over the American soldiers
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Better trained soldiers, larger army
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Treaty of Paris
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Ended the Revolutionary War and America was recognized to be its own country by Great Britain
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Intolerable Acts
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Close Port of Boston

Took away representative government

officials were not tried in Great Britain

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Cause: Intolerable Acts
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Effect: 1st Continental Congress
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Cause: Second Continental Congress
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Effect: Declaration of Independence
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Abigail Adams
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Women's Right advocate
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First major battle of the revolution
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Lexington
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Importance of Trenton and Princeton
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Moral booster
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Final Battle of the Revolution
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Yorktown
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Stamp Act
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Tax on all paper products
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Quartering Act
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Colonists were required to house British soldiers and provide them with food, blankets, etc...
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Cause: Pontiac's Rebillion
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Effect: Proclamation of 1763
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What is No Taxation without Representation?
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The colonists did not have a representative in the British Parliment. They felt it was unfair to be taxed by Parliment if they did not have a voice in government.
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Writs of Assistance
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British officers could search ships, colonists saw this as an invasion of privacy
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Cause: Tea Act
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Effect: Boston Tea Party
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Cause: Boston Tea Party
Definition
Effect: Intolerable Acts
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