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mid-term
mid-term exam
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History
8th Grade
01/12/2010

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Term
what things were included in state constitutions?
Definition
-Bill of rights
-principle of popular sovereignty(people vote)
-rules for future state government
Term
what was the purpose of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Definition
-end of the revolutionary War?
-US got all land in North America that had belonged to Britain.
Term
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Definition
-Thomas Jefferson
Term
Name two significant British victories during the Revolutionary War.
Definition
-Bunker Hill
-Long Island
Term
Name three significant American victories during the Revolutionary War.
Definition
-Trenton
-Saratoga
-Yorktown
Term
Horatio Gates
Definition
American general who got all the credit for the victory at Saratoga.
Term
George Washington
Definition
1st commander in chief of the continental army.
Term
Admiral de Grasse
Definition
Led the French fleet in blocking Cornwallis's escape at yorktown.
Term
Baron von Steuben
Definition
Prussian general who trained American soldiers at Valley Forge.
Term
Samuel Adams
Definition
A leader of the sons of liberty.
Term
Ethan Allen
Definition
Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga.
Term
Paul Revere
Definition
Rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning people that the British were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Term
Patrick Henry
Definition
Powerful speaker who said,"give me liberty, or give me death..."
Term
Gentelman Johnny
Definition
British John Burgoyne's nickname
Term
Intolerable Acts
Definition
Britian's response to the Boston Tea Party
Term
Prison Ships
Definition
Where more americans died than in all battles of the Revolution combined.
Term
Tea Act
Definition
Law that allowed the East India Company to sell the tea directly to the colonists
Term
Quartering Act
Definition
Law that forced colonists to provide housing for the British Soldiers.
Term
Benedict Arnold
Definition
Traitor who secretly offered to turn West Point over to the British.
Term
General Cornwallis
Definition
British officer who surendered at Yorktown
Term
Valley Forge
Definition
Where Washington and his troops spent the winter 1777-1778
Term
"Common Sense"
Definition
Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine which convinced many people to want to break away from Britian
Term
Sons of Liberty
Definition
Organization originally formed to protest the Stamp Act.
Term
Minute Men
Definition
Nickname for the volunteer soldiers in the Massachusetts who were ready to fight at a moment's notice
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