LEAD UP TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority inMassachusetts.
In response, a group of colonial delegates (including George Washingtonof Virginia, John and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and John Jay of New York) met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to give voice to their grievances against the British crown. This First Continental Congress did not go so far as to demand independence from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, as well as the maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent, and issued a declaration of the rights due every citizen, including life, liberty, property, assembly and trial by jury. The Continental Congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken out. On April 19, local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
DECLARING INDEPENDENCE (1775-76)
When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, delegates–including new additions Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson–voted to form a Continental Army, with Washington as its commander in chief. On June 17, in the Revolution’s first major battle, colonial forces inflicted heavy casualties on the British regiment of General William Howe at Breed’s Hill in Boston. The engagement (known as theBattle of Bunker Hill) ended in British victory, but lent encouragement to the revolutionary cause. Throughout that fall and winter, Washington’s forces struggled to keep the British contained in Boston, but artillery captured at Fort Ticonderoga in New York helped shift the balance of that struggle in late winter. The British evacuated the city in March 1776, with Howe and his men retreating to Canada to prepare a major invasion of New York.
By June 1776, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, a growing majority of the colonists had come to favor independence from Britain. On July 4, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, drafted by a five-man committee including Franklin and John Adams but written mainly by Jefferson. That same month, determined to crush the rebellion, the British government sent a large fleet, along with more than 34,000 troops to New York. In August, Howe’s Redcoats routed the Continental Army on Long Island; Washington was forced to evacuate his troops from New York City by September. Pushed across the DelawareRiver, Washington fought back with a surprise attack in Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas night and won another victory at Princeton to revive the rebels’ flagging hopes before making winter quarters at Morristown.
SARATOGA: REVOLUTIONARY WAR TURNING POINT (1777-78)
British strategy in 1777 involved two main prongs of attack, aimed at separating New England (where the rebellion enjoyed the most popular support) from the other colonies. To that end, General John Burgoyne’s army aimed to march south from Canada toward a planned meeting with Howe’s forces on the Hudson River. Burgoyne’s men dealt a devastating loss to the Americans in July by retaking Fort Ticonderoga, while Howe decided to move his troops southward from New York to confront Washington’s army near the Chesapeake Bay. The British defeated the Americans at Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania, on September 11 and entered Philadelphia on September 25. Washington rebounded to strike Germantown in early October before withdrawing to winter quarters near Valley Forge.
Howe’s move had left Burgoyne’s army exposed near Saratoga, New York, and the British suffered the consequences of this on September 19, when an American force under General Horatio Gates defeated them at Freeman’s Farm (known as the first Battle of Saratoga). After suffering another defeat on October 7 at Bemis Heights (the Second Battle of Saratoga), Burgoyne surrendered his remaining forces on October 17. The American victory Saratoga would prove to be a turning point of the American Revolution, as it prompted France (which had been secretly aiding the rebels since 1776) to enter the war openly on the American side, though it would not formally declare war on Great Britain until June 1778. The American Revolution, which had begun as a civil conflict between Britain and its colonies, had become a world war.
STALEMATE IN THE NORTH, BATTLE IN THE SOUTH (1778-81)
During the long, hard winter at Valley Forge, Washington’s troops benefited from the training and discipline of the Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich von Steuben (sent by the French) and the leadership of the French aristocrat Marquis de Lafayette. On June 28, 1778, as British forces under Sir Henry Clinton (who had replaced Howe as supreme commander) attempted to withdraw from Philadelphia to New York, Washington’s army attacked them near Monmouth, New Jersey. The battle effectively ended in a draw, as the Americans held their ground, but Clinton was able to get his army and supplies safely to New York. On July 8, a French fleet commanded by the Comte d’Estaing arrived off the Atlantic coast, ready to do battle with the British. A joint attack on the British at Newport, Rhode Island, in late July failed, and for the most part the war settled into a stalemate phase in the North.
The Americans suffered a number of setbacks from 1779 to 1781, including the defection of General Benedict Arnold to the British and the first serious mutinies within the Continental Army. In the South, the British occupied Georgia by early 1779 and captured Charleston, South Carolinain May 1780. British forces under Lord Charles Cornwallis then began an offensive in the region, crushing Gates’ American troops at Camden in mid-August, though the Americans scored a victory over Loyalist forces at King’s Mountain in early October. Nathanael Green replaced Gates as the American commander in the South that December. Under Green’s command, General Daniel Morgan scored a victory against a British force led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens, South Carolina, on January 17, 1781.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE (1781-83)
By the fall of 1781, Greene’s American forces had managed to force Cornwallis and his men to withdraw to Virginia’s Yorktown peninsula, near where the York River empties into Chesapeake Bay. Supported by a French army commanded by General Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, Washington moved against Yorktown with a total of around 14,000 soldiers, while a fleet of 36 French warships offshore prevented British reinforcement or evacuation. Trapped and overpowered, Cornwallis was forced to surrender his entire army on October 19. Claiming illness, the British general sent his deputy, Charles O’Hara, to surrender; after O’Hara approached Rochambeau to surrender his sword (the Frenchman deferred to Washington), Washington gave the nod to his own deputy, Benjamin Lincoln, who accepted it.
Though the movement for American independence effectively triumphed at Yorktown, contemporary observers did not see that as the decisive victory yet. British forces remained stationed around Charleston, and the powerful main army still resided in New York. Though neither side would take decisive action over the better part of the next two years, the British removal of their troops from Charleston and Savannah in late 1782 finally pointed to the end of the conflict. British and American negotiators in Paris signed preliminary peace terms in Paris late that November, and on September 3, 1783, Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris. At the same time, Britain signed separate peace treaties with France and Spain (which had entered the conflict in 1779), bringing the American Revolution to a close after eight long years.
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1) What was the Anglo-French Conflict?
ReplyDelete2)What were the main causes and effects of the Jay's and Pinckney's treaties?
3) What was the immediate result of the Boston Tea Party?
4) Why was the Constitution of 1787 significant?
5) How did Great Britain recognized the Independence of the United States?
1) The Anglo and French conflict, or the Thirty Years War, was a war between the French and British mostly overseas.
Delete2) The cause of the Jay treaty was the conflicts amongst the French and Colonists since the French was increasing on power and artillery. The effect was that John Jay created a treaty amongst the colonists and the French. The cause of the Pinckney's treaty occurred due to tensions between border situations in the U.S between Spain and U.S. So a treaty was created to establish a friendship between Spain and the U.S.
3) The result of the Boston Tea Party was the Coercive Acts, which closed the Boston Harbor and gave limited self government.
4) The Constitution of 1787 was significant because it allowed Federalists to have a large amount of authority amongst the colonists.
5) Great Britain realized the Independence of the U.S because of the Treaty of Paris, where a trues was established between the U.S and British.
1) How do the events in Lexington and Concord played a big role in the start of the American Revolution?
ReplyDelete2) Which act imposed taxes in all printed documents?
3) Why was the United States Bill of Rights significant in colonial America?
4)Describe the Paterns of Education on those times. In which ways it will benefit the colonists in the future?
5) What led the "Second Great Awakeninjg" to rise up?
1. The events in Lexington and Concord played a big role in the start of the American Revolution by being the very first battles of the revolution.
Delete2.The Stamp Act was the act that imposed taxes on all printed documents.
3.The United States' Bill of Rights was significant in colonial America because it limited the power of certain people within the government.
4. The Education patterns were that the nation's literary, and artistic life began to free itself from European influences. Future colonists will benefit from this because there would be more opportunities for education.
5.The separation from religion in colonial America led the "Second Great Awakening" to rise up.
1) What was the Mutiny act of 1765?
ReplyDelete2) Why did this act anger the colonists?
3) What caused the Boston Massacre
4) The Treaty of Greenville was to stop what problem? Between which groups?
5) In what ways did the Second Great Awakening have an effect on the colonists.
1:the act that American people had to provide for the British soldiers
Delete2: because now the American people have to take care of someone who they probably don't care about
3: the Boston massacre was caused by a mob of people throwing snow balls at soldiers
4: that was a peace treaty between the Americans and the native Americans
5:the second great awaking effected the colonist by reviving them in religion and letting baptist preach what they wanted
1)What was the name of the leader in The British and the tribes topic?
ReplyDelete2)What was the boston Massacre?
3) When did the Boston Tea Party happened? What Year
4)In the assumptions of Republicanism what was the importance of civic virtue?
5)In the heading of Federalists and Anti-Federalist what was the Bill of Rights roll?
1) The leader was George Washington during the British and Indian conflict.
Delete2) The Boston Massacre when the colonist fought back from British harassments of new legislations. During the Massacre the "Liberty Boys" attacked the Bristish with rocks and snowballs. As a result the British fired at th crowd and killed five people, which became the Boston Massacre symbolizing the British brutality.
3) The Boston Tea Party took place in December 16 1773, as a comeback to the Tea Act the colonist aboarded the British ships and dump British tea in the ocean.
4) Civic Virtue was the idea that the government is represented by the people, what the people say goes, government depends on the citizens.
5) Bill of Rights is a document on governmental amendments, listing all the natural rights we are humans have in our society and also listing all the things we want the government to do.
1. What did the colonists do as a response to the Coercive Acts?
ReplyDelete2.How was the separation of powers significant?
3.How many states were needed to ratify the Constitution?
4.When was the articles of confederation enacted?
5.What was so significant about he Second Great Awakening?
1. What was the seven years war ?
ReplyDelete2.What was the stamp act?
3. What caused the Boston Massacre?
4. Why was the proclamation of 1763 significant?
5. What were the 5 major decisions made in the first continental congress?
1. the seven year war was the french and India war.
Delete2.the stamp act was a tax on all printed goods.
3.the colonist protested a tax on them and a group of British soldiers fired into the group.
4.this caused the colonist to protests the rules that were applied to them, it was for there own safety.
5.I rejected Joseph plan for union
II endorsed a statement of grievances.
III preparations of defense if the British attacked.
IV stopping all trade with Britain
V agreed to meet next spring to make the C.C a continuous organization
1) Describe the difference between Federalists and Antifederalists.
ReplyDelete2) What did Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty do?
3) Why did Hamilton propose tax on alcohol distillers?
4) What were the effects of the Stamp Act?
5) How was Education in Jeffersonian Era?
1. The difference between Federalist and Antifederalist is Federalist are supporters of the U.S. Constitution, while Antifederalist are opposers of the U.S. Constitution, fearing the state more then the people.
Delete2. The Jay's Treaty was a treaty which offered little concessions from Britain to the U.S. and greatly disturbed the Jeffersonians.The Pinckney's Treaty gave America free navigation of the Mississippi and large areas of North Florida. It even gave them control over Indian raids from Florida.
3. Hamilton proposed tax on alcohol distillers because he thought it would be a way to get money for the national debt that was owed and at the same time would not cause much consternation in the American community.
4. The effects of the Stamp Act were the New Englanders and the Sons of Liberty didn't like the idea that printed material was being taxed because all it was, was a direct way to get revenue. They protested against parliament to end it, they did, but then to not cause any confusion on who still had complete authority, the Declaratory Act was passed by parliament saying they still had complete authority over the colonies.
5. Education in the Jeffersonian Era was very advanced. It was meant to be a way to get whites into having public education, but it wasn't enforced, private education was the main factor and it led up to Jeffersons creation of a private college, the University of Virgina where male and female would have to pay for education for a certain amount of time.
1) Why did the American Revolution start?
ReplyDelete2)Why was common sense written and who wrote it?
3)Who was the first president of the United States and when was he elected?
4)When did the American Revolution end?
5)What act did the colonist rebelled against the most ?
1. Parliament started taxing the colonies for revenue after the French & Indian because of the debt that Britain was in. The colonists felt that there should be "no taxation without representation", meaning that because the colonies weren't represented by elected legislatures in Parliament, the British Parliament should not be allowed to tax them. However, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, stating that they can tax the colonists without them having any representatives in the government. Colonists were angered and didn't want to be taxed by a country that didn't represent them fairly.
Delete2. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to explain that a large continent should not be controlled by an island. He thought that the American colonies should be free and should have their own government.
3.George Washington was the first president of the United States. He was elected because he was the former leader of the Continental Army and a chairman of the Continental Congress. Therefore, he met the necessary qualifications to be president.
4. The American Revolution ended in 1783.
5. The colonist rebelled against the Stamp Act the most because they wanted to set a precedent for the Parliament. They believed that if they protested enough, the Parliament would never tax them again.
1) What were the 5 mayor decisions The Continental Congress made in the Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia?
ReplyDelete2)Why did the Americans agreed on having a republican government?
3)What were some reasons that made slavery survive among the southern and border states, while in other states they were freeing slaves?
4)What were the three departments that the First Congress created?
5)How was the Second Great Awakening so significant?
1. The 5 mayor decisions, the continental congress made in the Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia was rejected a plan for a colonial union under British authority. Second endorsed a statement of grievances for tortured language. Third colonies can have military serve in cause they need to defend themselves from British attack. Fourth stop trading with Great British and fifth, continue the Continental Congress.
Delete2. Americans agreed on having a republican government because all power came from the people, rather than from a supreme authority(king).
3. Racism among whites about the inferiority of blacks, the economic investments many whites southerners had in their slaves.
Some whites mans believed that blacks could be integrated into American society as equal.
4. The three departments that the first congress created was state, treasury and war.
5. The second Great Awakening was so significant because it gave the idea that men and women could belong to different protestant churches and still have the same Christianity faith.
1.Who taxed the American colonies?
ReplyDelete2.How did Britain became in debt?
3.What actions did the British take after being in debt?
4.How did the colonists avoid paying taxes?
5.How did salutary neglect effect Britain over time?
1. The British taxed them
Delete2. When fighting on the French Indian war
3. They started taxing the colonie.
4. They would boycott and protest
5. The British ignored the colonies and when they continued making rules the colonies refuse to follow.
1) Explain the difference between federalist and Anti-federalist?
ReplyDelete2) What became of the Western land after the revolutionary
3) Who was Nathanael Greene?
4) What was the purpose of the Jay and Pinckney Treaties?
5) What did women want after the war?
The differences between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists are vast and at times complex. Federalists’ beliefs could be better described as nationalist. The Federalists were instrumentThe Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the US Constitution, but they never organized efficiently across all thirteen states, and so had to fight the ratification at every state conventional in 1787 in shaping the new US Constitution.
Delete2.Americans of the Revolutionary Era regarded the "West" as those lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.The claims to the western lands were usually rooted in the vague wording of old colonial charters. The picture was further complicated by the fact that the claims often overlapped one another, which pitted one state's interests against another.As the War of Independence approached its conclusion, the Articles of Confederation government struggled with this problem.
3.Nathanael Greene was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, known for his successful command in the Southern Campaign.
4.Pinckney Treaties was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.The jay treaty Averted the threat of war.
5.Woman wanted for them to be free after the war. They were free they had there own power to do things such as vote and work for themselves.They dont just stay home and do chorses they could actually do something for their life now.
1) Who were the three primary groups in power in North-eastern North America?
ReplyDelete2) When did the first Continental Congress meet?
3) Where did the war for Independence begin?
4) Why did the citizens fear the establishment of a president?
5) Why was the Constitution of 1787 such a significant document?
1) The three primary groups in power were the English, the French and the Iroquois.
Delete2) The first Continental Congress met on September 1774 at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
3) The War for Independence began at Lexington and Concord.
4) The citizens feared the establishment of a president because they believed that too much power leads to corruption and eventually tyranny.
5) The Constitution of 1787 was a very significant document as it lead to the separation of powers as we know rthem todqay and James Madison answered two important questions which were how to limit the power of the national government and the president.
1) Where did the power of the nation comes from according to Republicans?
ReplyDelete2) What event cause Great Britain to end their Salutary neglect policy?
3) What did the Stamp Act taxed the colonies on?
4) What is the difference between the Federalist and the Anti-federalist?
5) Why was the Bill of Rights created?
1.) According to the republicans, their power comes mainly from the people.
Delete2.) the event that caused Great Britain to render salutary neglect policy was the French and Indian War because after the war they needed to pay money so Great Britain decided to tax the colonies.
3.) the Stamp Act mainly taxed the colonies mostly on printed paper. for example, it was hard for people to pay for funerals because they had to pay the extra tax so if they wanted to leave money they couldn't because they had to pay all that tax for the funeral.
4.) the difference between Federalist and anti-federalist were that Federalist were more nationalistic and anti-federalists opposed the ratification of the US Constitution so they were posing the ratification and ended up creating the new US Constitution.
5.) Bill of Rights were created because The Federalist thought that according to the constitution, people would have power and they believe that they will corrupt and cause tyranny, so the Bill of Rights were created to calm down the fears that the Federalists had.
1) What is the seven year war?
ReplyDelete2) What was the effect of Queen Anne's war?
3) How many people were killed during the Boston Massacre?
4) What was the Declaration of Independence and why it is important?
5) What did the second Great Awakening helped create?
1) This war changed the balance of power for the continent and for the whole world, the war was in between England and France fighting for the control of the naval power and world trade.
Delete2) This war created more conflicts among the Spaniards, with the French and their Indian allies.
3) During the Boston Massacre, there were only 5 people killed.
4) It was the formal declaration of independence where they stated that America is, for right, free and that all political connection between America and Great Britain, was gone. This meant that now America would be free and that they could choose how they wanted their government to be.
5) Because of the second Great Awakening people started believing that man and woman could be part of different Protestant Churches and still believe in the same Christian faith.
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ReplyDelete1. What was the stamp act ?
ReplyDelete2. What was the Boston Massacre?
3. Who was Samuel Adams?
4. Was it true that Bew England first abolished slavery ( Yes or No)
5. When was the cotton gin invented?
1.The Stamp act was passed by Britain in order to tax the colonists on any type of printed material.
Delete2.The Boston Massacre happened when civilians were throwing rocks and snowballs at British solders and one of them got knocked down and the British troops shot at the crowd and 5 people were killed.
3.Samuel adams was an activists against British parliament.
4.New England did get rid of slavery over time after people realized how the declaration of independence was not being carried out. Because it states that all men are equal and all men have the right to have freedom, and there was still slavery going on.
5.The cotton gin was invented in March 14,1794. It was made in order to make it easier to pick the cotton out of the plants.
1. What role did the Iroquois Nation play during French expanison?
ReplyDelete2. Who gained control of Parliament during the Burdens of the English Empire? Why?
3. Why did the British finally decide to do to Concord?
4. How was the Ordinance of 1784 different from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? BE SPECIFIC.
5. Who was Daniel Shay? And What did he issue during the late 1780s?
1)The Iroquois were important in the French expansion because they were neutral and didn't help the British during the Anglo French Conflicts.
Delete2) George III gained control of Parliament because he removed the relatively stable coalition of Whigs.
3. The British finally decided to go to Concord to search and take away the illegal supplies.
4)The Ordinance of 1784 divided the western land into 10 districts,where they could request statehood to Congress when the population number is equal to the number of free inhabitants of the smallest existing state. And The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was when they created a single Northwest Territory out of the lands north of the Ohio.
5)Daniel Shays was a captain in the Continental army.During the late 1780s he issued a demand for tax relief, a moratorium on debts,paper money,move state capital from Boston to the interior and end imprisonment for debts.
1.who fought in the seven year war?
ReplyDelete2.when was the first tax established in the colonies?
3.how many Americans died in the battle of fallen timbers?
4. why did England start to tax the colonist?
5.what were the first ten amendments called?
1.France, the Native Americans vs Britain and colonies.
Delete2.The first tax was established in 1765.
3. 630 Americans died in the battle of fallen timbers.
4. England started to tax the colonists because after the war they were in debt, so they came up with this new way to get money from the colonists by taxing them.
5. The first ten amendments were called the "Bill of Rights".
1. What was an effect of the Battle of Saratoga?
ReplyDelete2. Who's original ideas were expressed through Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence?
3. What were the origins of the Second Awakening?
4. Why did Great Britain end their policy of salutary neglect?
5. What was the significance of the Proclamation of 1763?
1)The effect of the Battle of Saratoga got the French on the Americans side to help fight off the birth is for their independence.
Delete2)John Locke original ideas were expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
3)The origins of the second great awakening was to fight the spread of religious rationalism, in effort of church establishment to revitalize their organizations.
4)The British end their policy of salutary neglected due to the French and Indian war.
5)The proclamation of 1763 was that the American colonist were not allow to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
1. What was "The Second Great Awakening"?
ReplyDelete2.What were the Anglo-French conflicts?
3.What was a result of the Boston Massacre?
4.Why were Lexington and Concord significant?
5.What big problem did the Compromise solve, and how did it solve it?
1) The "Second Great Awakening" were the efforts to fight spread of religious rationalism. Called individuals to readmit God + Christ into daily life, reject skeptical rationalism.
Delete2) The Anglo-French conflicts were primarily because of the Europeans seeds of problems. Border problems and trade problems between Spanish and English vs. Prussiat and Austria. Also, a Fort Necessity.
3) A result of the Boston massacre was that The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War.
4) Lexington and Concord were significant because it marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Also, it build up the confidence that the colonist needed to stand against the British.
5) The problem that the Compromise solved was by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the numbers between both, equal. Also, divided Lousiana Purchase into slave and free territory. It solve this by limiting the tensions between the North and South.
1:who fought in the seven year war?
ReplyDelete2:what was the Boston tea party?
3:what was the stamp act?
4:why was the Declaration of Independence created?
5: why did the colonist fear monopolys?
1) The Indian and the French.
Delete2) The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the sons of liberty
3) Tax on printed goods
4) It was created to explain why the colonists wanted independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are the authors most remembered.
5) Colonists feared monopolies because they were afraid that their business would collapse due to one company gaining all the profit.
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ReplyDelete1) Why didn't the colonists step in when the British came to fight in the Seven Year War?
ReplyDelete2) Today, are the states still considered confederations?
3) Where is the Ohio Valley? Is it near the Appalachians or the backbone?
4) What/Who was the Sons of Liberty?
5) Why did the colonists dress up as Native Americans?
1) The colonies DID step in side-by-side with the British against France, who had the support of the Native Americans.
Delete2) The states are not considered confederations since the ratification of the current U.S. constitution in 1788. The United States is a Federation because even though U.S. States can have their own laws, they are subordinate to a bigger authority, the Federal Govt.
3) The Ohio Valley goes form Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Illinois. The Ohio Valley has the Appalachian Mountains in the east. Both of them were used as a barrier limiting the colonists to the east side.
4)The 'Sons of Liberty' was a group against the high taxes in the colonies.
5) In 1772, the colonists dressed up as Native Americans to attack the England ship because of smuggle.
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ReplyDelete1.) What was the Boston Massacre?
ReplyDelete2.)Who were the ones that fought in the Seven Years War?
3.) What was the Boston Tea Party?
4.) Why was the Second Great Awakening important?
5.) What was the Stamp Act?
1) The Boston Massacre was an event where British soldiers fired at a group of colonists.
Delete2) The Seven Years War was the French & Indians vs Great Britain ( mostly the colonies).
3) The Boston Tea Party was a protest by a group of colonies where chest of tea were thrown into the Boston harbor.
4) The Second Great Awakening was important because it went against the Enlightenment ideas that were becoming quite popular in the colonies. It rejected rationalism and skepticism.
5) The Stamp Act was a direct taxation on the colonies that taxed any printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents.
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ReplyDelete1.who explored the new western territory in the US?
ReplyDelete2.when did Jefferson become president?
3.what were two ways of transportation?
4.Why did the US purchase the Louisiana territory?
5.why was the friendship between Jefferson and napoleon needed?