24. What role did African Americans serve during the war?
A thin line of heroes
22. What were some of the difficulties the patriots faced?
23. What role did women serve in the army?
21. Why was France willing to help the colonist?
20. Disadvantages?
18. What were the disadvantages of the British army?
American Pluses and minuses
19. What were the advantages of the American (Continental) army?
Imperial Strengths and Weaknesses
17. What were the advantages held by the British army?
16. Why were the British marching on Lexington and Concord, Mass?
Bloodshed
15. What was the purpose of the First Continental Congress?
Tea Brewing in Boston
13. Why did the colonist throw the tea into the harbor?
Parliament passes the Intolerable acts
14. What was the purpose and provisions of the Intolerable Acts (Coercive acts)?
Committees of Correspondence
12. What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
Townshend Tea Tax and Boston Massacre
10. What items were taxed under Townshend duties?
11. Was there Boston Massacre a massacre? explain
Forced repeal of the Stamp Act
9. What was the nickname of the colonial protestors?
8. What is meant by “virtual representation?”
7. Why were the colonist so upset by these laws and taxes?
6. What items were taxed by the stamp act tax?
5. What was required in the quartering act?
3. What was the purpose of the navigation law?
The Stamp Tax Uproar
4. What was the purpose of the sugar tax?
American Pageant chapter 7 questions Name ___________________________
The deep roots of Revolution
Who were the radical whigs?
Mercantilism and Grivances
2. How do colonies aid the mother country in the theory of mercantilism?
American Pageant chpt 8 questions
Congress Drafts G.W.
1. Why was Washington a good choice to lead the Continental Army?
Bunker Hill and the Hessians
2. Why did the colonist lose the battle at Bunker (Breeds) Hill?
3. What was the purpose for the Olive Branch Petition?
4. Who were the Hessians and how did their hiring backfire on King George?
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
5. How did Common Sense lead to independence?
Paine and Republicanism
6. What is a Republic?
Jefferson’s explanation of independence
7. What reasons did Jefferson offer for declaring independence?
Patriots and Loyalist/ The loyalist Exodus
8. Describe in detail who the loyalist were.
General Washington at Bay
9. Where was the continental army routed in 1776?
10. What 2 battles helped Washington reclaim New Jersey?
Burgoyne’s Blundering Invasion
11. Why was Saratoga such a decisive battle?
12. Why is Valley Forge memorable to the war effort?
Revolution in Diplomacy
13. Why was France willing to form an alliance with America?
The colonial war becomes a wider war
14. How did France aid the rebels?
Blow and Counterblow
15. Who is one of the most famous traitors in American history?
16. Name 2 famous Patriot victories in NC.
The Land and Sea Frontier
17. What was a privateer?
Yorktown and the final curtain
18. How did the French help the colonist win at Yorktown?
Peace at Paris
19. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Paris?
American Pageant chapter 9
The Pursuit of Equality
1. List 3 examples of American’s demanding equality in post Revolutionary War America.
2. What happened to the Anglican church?
3. What similarities were there in both the north and the south towards the treatment of free blacks?
4. Why did the founding fathers allow slavery to continue?
5. What was the ideal of the Republican Motherhood?
6. How did this help women?
Constitution Making in the States
7. What similarities can be found in all the early state constitutions?
8. What was being represented by moving many state capitals westward?
Creating a Confederation
9. What was the title of the first constitution?
10. What was the issue with western land claims? How was it settled?
11. What were 3 weaknesses of the Articles?
12. What were some successes of the Articles of Confederation?
Landmarks in Land Laws
13. What were the provisions of Northwest Land Ordinance?
The World’s Ugly Duckling
14. What was the British treatment of the new nation like?
15. What lands were claimed by Spain?
16. What areas of trade were hampered by France and Pirates?
The Horrid Specter of Anarchy
17. What was the cause of Shay’s rebellion?
18. What was the result of Shay’s rebellion?
A Convention of “Demigods”/Patriots in Philadelphia
19. What was the original purpose of the convention?
20. Which state did not attend the convention
21. Who attended the meeting?— who did not?
22. When was the meeting?
23. Why did Jefferson call the attendees “Demigods?”
Hammering out a Bundle of Compromises
24 Describe the large state plan.
25. Describe the small state plan.
26. How did they combine to form the Great Compromise?
27. How does the Electoral College work?
28. What deals were made concerning trade? (taxes and slavery in particular)
29. When did the meetings end?
The Clash of the Federalist and the Anti Federalist
30.How many states had to ratify the new constitution?
31. Why were the antifederalist against the new constitution?
32. Who (people) were the antifederalist? Federalist??
33. What was promised to encourage the Anti’s to agree to the new constitution?
34. What were and who wrote the Federalist papers?
35. Which were the last 4 to sign on and why did they finally agree to the new constitution?