American Revolution Test Review_SLS4

The rough draft to the Constitution. The plan was too weak, but it laid the foundation for the Constitution.

The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

Ended the war and began independence from Britain

With the help of the French, the Patriots’ victory ended fighting in the American colonies

Fighting began and the “shot heard around the world” marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War

Taxes placed on colonist on products such as newspaper, paper, sugar, etc.

 The French and Indian War was also known as.......

British soldiers patrolling streets; Colonists got angry & threw rocks; British soldiers opened fire

 _________________ and England were fighting over unclaimed land in the _____________ Valley.

The colonists knew they couldn’t win on their own, so they asked France to fight with them

Because the war lasted so long, what did Britain need?

The laws of our nation. Preamble at the beginning states basic rights. Bill of Rights states specific laws.

What did Britain do to get money from the colonists?

Signed July 4, 1776 to declare America as an independent nation.

_______________won the French & Indian War.

Act placed on colonists forcing them to provide housing British soldiers

Colonists were very upset with the decision Parliament made to tax them. Colonists used the quote:

Sons of Liberty dressed like Native Americans; took over a British ship; dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

The name of the group which formed and persuaded colonists to boycott British goods and fight for liberty: