| A | B |
|---|
| french and indian wart lasted | 7 years |
| treaty of paris | peace between french and british |
| first contintental congress | solutions 2 pay the king george takes |
| lexington and concord | first shot of american revolution begins |
| second continental congress | decide on their independence |
| declaration of Independence | freedom from british |
| thomas jefferson | Author of the declaration of inderpendence |
| weakness of britain | crossing an ocean to bring own supplies, they had to hire mercenaries and had no standing army in america |
| strenghts of britan | well trained troops, lots o money well funded and organized |
| weaknesses of conlonies | lack of unity, very little money and pooryl trained and undisaplined |
| strenghts of colonies | defending their own lands and Americans had good leaders |
| General John Burgoyne | americans defeated him |
| yorktown | last battle of american revalution (american won) |
| Benjamin franklin | representative 2 treaty of paris |
| treaty of paris | french surrender of land to america from appalachian mountains |
| provisions of articals of confederation | gave us a centrall governemnt could declare war make peace conduct forign relations settle disputes between the states |
| weakness of artical of confederation | no tax no excutive branch and no judicial branch |
| george washington | pres. of convention first pres of the us |
| federal system of government | 2 levesl state and national |
| executive branch | enforces teh laws |
| legislative branch | congress 2 houses i house of representative 435 members 1 senate 100 members work 2gether |
| judicial branch | supreme court 9 members decsion cases |
| bill of rights | first 10 amendments of the constitution freedom |
| gave encourgament | john lock life is liberty and property |
