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Writ Of Assitance
A) Writ of Assistance was in 1660. B) In response, the British officials in the colonies called for a crackdown on smuggling. C) documents which served as a general search warrant, allowing customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods. D) For crackdown and smuggling allowing officials to enter any ship or building. -
John Locke's Social Contract
A) John Locke's Social Contract was in 1689. B) To strike in saying that the right people give up in order to enter into Civil Society. C) So people can go into Civil Society. -
Washington's Army
A) It was in February 22nd, 1732. B) commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. After serving as President of the United States he briefly was in charge of a new army in 1798. C) Continental Army. -
French And Indian War
A) The French And Indian War was 1754-1763. B) The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France the French and Indian and it ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. C) It began due to a conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley. Both of them wanted the valley so they can expand the settlements into the area. D) It provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America -
Friedrich Von Steuben & Marquis De Lafayette
A) In 1757. B) Marquis de Lafayette was a French general who played an important part during the Revolutionary War. He volunteered his time and money to help the Americans. He was able to help the Americans win the war and was treated as a hero. C) Baron Friedrich von Steuben, hired by George Washington to whip the Continental Army into shape during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, is known for his bravery and the discipline and grit he brought to the American troops. -
Proclamation of 1763
A) The proclamation happened in 1763. B) After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. C) intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. D) Didn't colonists cross Appalachian. -
Sugar Act
A) The Sugar Act was in 1764 B) Ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. C) was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties. D) Increased the Colonists concerns about their rights as British citizens and the intent of British Parliament to direct rule the colonies. -
Stamp Act
A) It started in 1765. B) This act imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards A stamp would be placed on the items to prove that the tax had been
paid. C) The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. D) British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France. -
Sons of Liberty
A) Sons Of Liberty wa in 1765. B) Was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists to fight taxation by the british government. C) It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. D) During the debate, Stamp Act supporter Charles Townshend made a disapproving statement of the American colonists -
Declaratory Act
A) The Declaratory Act was in 1766. B) British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. C) The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. D) The Declaratory Act was a reaction of British Parliament to the failure of the as they did not give up. -
Townshend Act
A) The Townshend act was in 1767. B) series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies. C) King started to tax the people of the United States. They taxed the colonists in the United States. D) The British government thought the colonists should help pay the cost of their protection. -
Boston Massacre
A) The Boston Massacre was in March 5, 1770. B) A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. C) Prior to the Boston Massacre the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead. D) conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control. -
Tea Act
A) In 1773, Lord North devised the Tea Act in order to save the nearly bankrupt British East India Company. The act granted the company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay. B) This action would have cut colonial merchants out of the tea trade by enabling the East India Company to sell its tea directly to consumers for less. C) It happened because for the free of taxes. D) To bail the floundering of east india, key factor of British. -
Boston Tea Party
A) The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. B) The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. C) The Boston Tea Party happened as a result of taxation without representation, yet the cause is more complex than that. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War. -
Intolerable Acts
A) The Intolerable Acts was in 1774. B) British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. C) Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. D) The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
First Continental Congress
A) The first Continental Congress was in September 5, 1774. B) Organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. C) Comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Minutemen
A) Minutemen was in 1775. B) Specialized group of colonial militias trained to be ready in a minute's notice to ride and warn locals about British movements during the Revolutionary War. C) The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution, a conflict that would escalate from a colonial uprising into a world war that, seven years later, would give birth to the independent United States of America. -
Second Continental Congress
A) Second Continental Congress was in May 10, 1775. B) It was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia. C) They tried to do a petition to avoid war with Britain but it was rejected. -
Publication Of Common Sense
A) The Publication of Common Sense was in 1775. B) Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. C) Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic. -
Battle of Lexington
A) The Battle of Lexington was in 1775. B) The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. C) The Americans won the battle. The British retreated back to Boston. The Battle of Concord proved to the British that the American army was not just a band of unorganized rebels, but an army that deserved respect. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A) The Battle Of Bunker Hill was in June 17th, 1775. B) Battle of Bunker Hill, also called Battle of Breed's Hill, first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown during the Siege of Boston. C) British won the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
Olive Branch Petition
A) The Olive Branch Petition was in July 8th, 1775. B) The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. C) The purpose of the Olive Branch Petition was to appease King George III and prevent the conflict between the colonies and the British government from escalating into a full blown war. -
Battle Of Concord
A) The Battle Of Concord was in 1775. B) The significance of these battles is that they were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. These battles happened in April of 1775. They happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord. C) The Americans won. -
Continental Army
A) The Continental Army was in June 15th, 1775. B) The Continental Army was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the ex-British colonies that became the United States of America. ... General George Washington was the commander-in-chief of the army throughout the war. C) The Continental Army was formed to secure American colonists' independence from Great Britain -
Loyalists And Patriots
A) Loyalists And Patriots were in 1775. B) Loyalists were American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time. They were opposed by the "Patriots", who supported the revolution, and called them "persons inimical to the liberties of America". C) Loyalists were most numerous in the South, New York, and Pennsylvania, but they did not constitute a majority in any colony. -
Declaration of Independence
A) The Declaration Of Independence was in 1776. B) The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. C) It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule. A group of men came together in the summer of 1776 to find ways to become independent from Great Britain. -
Washington's Christmas Night Surprise Attack
A) His surprise attack was in 1776. B) Washington crossed the Delaware River so that his army could attack an isolated garrison of Hessian troops located at Trenton, New Jersey. ... After several councils of war, General George Washington set the date for the river crossing for Christmas night 1776. C) during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26. -
Valley Forge
A) The Valley Forge was 1777-1778. B) After failing to retake the city, Washington led his 12,000 man army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, located approximately 18 mile northwest of Philadelphia. They remained there for six months, from December. C) When Washington's army marched out of Valley Forge on the men were better disciplined and stronger than when they had entered. Nine days later, they won a victory against the British under Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey -
Saratoga
A) Was in 1777. B) His surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. C) The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
French American Alliance
A) The French American Alliance was in 1778. B) The Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Formalized in the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, it was a military pact in which the French provided many supplies for the Americans. C) The second agreement, the Treaty of Alliance, made the fledgling United States and France allies against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. -
British Victories In The South
A) In 1780. B) General Clinton turned over British operations in the South to Lord Cornwallis. C) The Continental Congress dispatched General Horatio Gates, the victor of Saratoga, to the South with a new army, but Gates promptly suffered one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history at the Battle of Camden. -
Treaty of Paris
A) It all started on September 3, 1783 B) It was signed by the U.S. and British Representatives by the ending the war of the American Revolution C) It established peace between Great Britain, France, Spain, and the netherlands. And it ended the French and Indian War and france gave up all of their territories in the mainland, D) They opened up the Mississippi River to navigate by the citizens of both United States and Great Britain. And resolved issues with the American Debts owed to the British
