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Mrs.Authier's Exam THE FIRST!! :O!!
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Social Studies
8th Grade
10/22/2012

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When was Jamestown discovered?
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1607..
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Mayflower Compact...?
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1620!
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Declaration of Independence??
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1776!!! >:I
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The French n' Indian war caused Britland to...?
Definition
TAX THE COLONISTS
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What forced colonists to trade raw goods to them n' forced colonists BUY Brit stuff?
Definition
Merchantilism
Term
This British act against the colonists prohibited colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains.
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What is Proclamation of 1763?
Term
Tax on sugar n' molasses ?? By the way this placed HARD PUNISHMENTS ON smugglers, and the year.
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Sugar act! :D 1764
Term
Required all legal documents to carry a stamp that showed a stamp that tax was paid. What year??
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Stamp Actt. 1765
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This act required colonists to house and supply the lazy Brit troops. Still what year?
Definition
Quartering Act 1765
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-taxed goods brought into colonies. YEAR?
Definition
Townshend Act! 1767
Term
When Britian repealed the Townshend Acts but felt tax on this tea. No year this time...
Definition
Tea Act.
Term
laws that restricted colonists; meant to punish colonists for the Tea Dumping Incident;colonists called this the Intolerable acts. DEAD GIVE AWAY!! :C Year??
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Coercive Acts 1774.
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What were the colonists called that supported the revolution? :I
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The patriots.
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What were the colonists called that unsupported the revolution? :I
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The loyalists.
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Why did the Mr.Paine write "Common Sense"?
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To persuade that America has to have independence.
Term
secret society in Boston that opposed British policies during the American Revolution?
Definition
The Sons of Liberty
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Boston Massacre
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5 colonists killed by WHAT troops?
1st Afr-Ame killed in revolution?
Lawyer who defended Brit troops?
Member of Sons of Liberty that made an engraving in the event?
Famous drawing that makes the event look worse than the event actually is?
Definition
Brits
Boston
Crispus Attucks
John Adams
Paul Revere
rebel
Term
pushed for women's rights and husband of John Adams.
Definition
Abigail Adams.
Term
Dumping of 342 chests of tea by the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native American.
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Boston Tea Party.
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meeting in Philadelphia; colonists agreed to train troops and to ban all trade with Britain
Definition
First Continental Congress!
Term
the refusal to buy goods
Definition
boycott.
Term
Second Continental Congress-meeting in ______; formed the _____ army; Declaration of Independence written by _______
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Philly
Continental
Thomas Jefferson
Term
In the Declaration of Independence, it states that we have______ rights meaning....y'know.
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unalienable.
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This concept (unalienable rights) is based on a philosophy by _____
Definition
John Locke.
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_______-Battle that started the American Revolution "__________"
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Battle of Lexington & Concord
"Shot hear 'round the world"
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John Paul Jones founded...?
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US NAVY! >:O
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turning point war in revolution.
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Battle of Saratoaga.
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Ben Frank convinced _____ to become our ally in the revo.
Definition
France!
Term
Frenchman that helped George Washington.
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Marquise de Lafyette
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slave who helped Lafyette spying against Brits.
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James Armistead
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Spanish governor who helped prevent Brits attack the US from the southwest! C:
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Bernando de Galvez
Term
came to stand for the hardships endured by the Americans during the Revo; barefoot men left tracks of ____ in the snow as they marched; they died of malnutrition, cold and ____.
Definition
Valley Forge
blood
diseases
Term
FINAL BATTLE OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION!! :OO!
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Yorktown
Term
Treaty that ended the American Revolution
year?
Definition
Treaty of Paris 1783
Term
Agreements int the treaty were that...
America is ___
Land in the US goes as east as ____
as west as ____ as north as ____ to Spanish _____. _____paid and captives released. US gets rights to fish off of _____'s Atlantic Coast. New Foundland
Definition
Independent
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
Canada
Florida
debts
Canada
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