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| What is sedition? | inciting a riot against the State |
| What is libel? | publishing false statements that damage people's reputations |
| What two things were accomplished by Peter Zenger's trial? | 1) freedom of press 2) juries could decide if laws were broken |
| What country was Robert Jenkins from? Who cut off his ear & why was it significant? | from England; Spain cut it off & started war between Spain & England |
| How did Fort Duquesne start the French & Indian War? | built by French; G. Washington went to take it & killed 10 Frenchmen |
| Describe the situation with Fort Necessity. | built by G. Washington on low ground; British defeated when it flooded |
| Describe Gen. Braddocks efforts to take Fort Duquesne. | British used line up style fighting & bright colors & lost to French |
| What did George Washington learn from Gen. Braddock? | need new style of fighting (like French & Indians) |
| What was the British strategy in the French & Indian War? | cut off supplies by controlling St. Lawrence River |
| How did the French & Indian War get its name? | English used it to remember they were fighting the French & the Indians |
| Describe the Battle for Quebec. | British snuck up the cliff @ night & defeated French; Montcalm & Wolfe killed |
| What was significant about the Battle of Montreal? | British won & war ended after 9 years |
| Describe France's situation after French & Indian War. | lost everything except a couple of islands |
| Describe Britain's position after the French & Indian War. | claimed land from Atlantic to Mississippi River |
| Describe Spain's position after French & Indian War. | controlled land west of Mississippi River |
| What was the Great Awakening? | spiritual revival in the colonies |
| What was the Enlightenment Period? | said reason & science were keys to knowledge; not religion |
| Who was John Locke? | Englishman whose ideas used in Dec. of Independence & Constitution |
| What was the Proclamation of 1763? | line drawn by British gov't preventing colonists moving past Appalachians |
| How did the colonists use the Magna Carta ideas? | gave them idea of reducing the King's power |
| What erm means "have body?" (can't leave a person sitting in jail w/o charges | habeas corpus |
| Who was King of England during Revolutionary War? | King George III |
| What law placed taxes on paper items & made the colonists very angry? | Stamp Act |
| What law replaced the Stamp Act & taxed items like paint, glass & tea? | Townshend Acts |
| Nickname for time colonists dressed like Indians & destroyed British tea. | Boston Tea Party |
| Colonists' nickname for laws passed punishing them for Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| Who created the Committees for Correspondence to increase communication in the colonies? | Sam Adams |
| What firebrand said, "Give me liberty or give me death."? | Patrick Henry |
| Who wrote "Common Sense" promoting independence from England? | Thomas Paine |
| What did the Quartering Act do? | British law requiring colonists to house British soldiers |
| Explain the Boston Massacre. | After being teased, British soldiers fired on colonists |
| What is the name for meeting of colonists over Intolerable Acts & creating a militia? | 1st Continental Congress |
| What were the two nicknames for colonists? (one supporting Britain; other opposing) | Patriots/Loyalists |
| nickname for colonists who were ready to fight at a moment's notice | minutemen |
| What two men warned the colonists that "the British were coming."? | Paul Revere/ William Dawes |
| What were the "shots heard round the world?" | fired between colonists & British @ Lexington starting Revolutionary War |
| What are considered the first battles of the Revolutionary War? | Lexington & Concord |
| What happened at the 2nd Continental Congress? | appointed George Washington to lead Continental Army & sent "olive branch" to King George |
| What battle was moral victory for colonists even though the British scaled the hills & finally won? | Bunker Hill Battle |
| What document said the colonists were breaking away from England? | Declaration of Independence |
| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| Who was the first to sign (in large letters) the Dec. of Indendence because he was President of 2nd Continental Congress? | John Hancock |
| Where in Philadelphia did the 2nd Continental meet in Philadelphia? | Independence Hall |
| Who were the Germans hired to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War? | Hessians |
| Who was leader of the British forces in America? | General Billy Howe |
| What battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War for the Americans? | Battle of Saratoga |
| Where did George Washington lose 2500 soldiers camped during the winter in Pennsylvania? | Valley Forge |
| What battle ended the Revolutionary War? | Yorktown |
| What British leader surrendered at Yorktown? | Lord Charles Cornwallis |
| Who was one of Washington's most trusted general, but became a traitor? | Benedict Arnold |
| Who was called the "Father of the American Navy" famous for saying, "I have not yet begun to fight."? | John Paul Jones |
