The American Revolution

Question 1

Stamp Act Congress

Accepted Answer

In New York, Unified resistance to the Stamp Act, Georgia did not send a representative to this event.

Question 2

What were the Articles of Comfederation?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 3

How was Button Gwinnett killed?

Accepted Answer

All of these are true

Question 4

What were Loyalists?

Accepted Answer

Older Georgians; had direct dependency on trade with Britain, They controlled Savannah

Question 5

What was Common Sense?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 6

Sons of Liberty/ Liberty Boys

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 7

Townsend Acts

Accepted Answer

Tax on tea, paper glass, lead, paint, 1767

Question 8

Who were the three representatives that signed the a Declaration of Independence for Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Question 9

Why was Georgia known as the “Tory Colony”?

Accepted Answer

Caused a practical Civil War in Georgia-not an actual war., So many older Georgians wanted to remain loyal to Britian.

Question 10

When/ what was the Seige of Savannah?

Accepted Answer

This was an attempt to take Savannah back from the British, They lost trying to re-take the city., Caused because Savannah was captured early in the war, 1779

Question 11

Did Georgia send representatives to plan resistance? Did other colonies send representatives?

Accepted Answer

No;yes

Question 12

What was the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

All of the above and much more

Question 13

When was the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

1775-1783

Question 14

Who were Patriots?

Accepted Answer

Center of resistance was Augusta., Backcountry Georgians;were born here;didn’t rely on Britain

Question 15

Were the people who signed the Declaration of Independence considered traitors in England?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 16

When/what was the Battle of Kettle Creek?

Accepted Answer

Boosted their morale, Patriot victory northwest of Augusta., 1779, Patriots captured some horses and supplies.

Question 17

Who were the Rebels?

Accepted Answer

more self-sufficient, The Patriots, backcountry Georgians

Question 18

What was the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Said that the 13 colonies were free and independent states., To declare independence of America.

Question 19

Positive aspects of the Articles of Condfederation?

Accepted Answer

It was the first constitution of the “United States”, It helped them defeat the British

Question 20

What were some main causes of the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 21

Where did the Second Continental Congress take place?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia, PA

Question 22

What effects did the French and Indian war have on the colonists’ ideas of independence?

Accepted Answer

It caused taxes whch caused colonists to want independence ., It had increased the ideas of independece among colonists.

Question 23

Who were Tories?

Accepted Answer

Older Georgians, People who relied on trade with the British, Loyalists

Question 24

When were the Articles of Confederation created?

Accepted Answer

1781

Question 25

When was the First Continental Congress

Accepted Answer

1774

Question 26

Stamp Act

Accepted Answer

A stamp tax must be paid on papers, 1765

Question 27

When was the second Continental Congress? What significan event happened at this event?

Accepted Answer

1776;The Declaration of Independence was written.

Question 28

Navigation Act?

Accepted Answer

1651,1660,1663, Said that all colonists must use British ships for trade.

Question 29

Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

Each state had one vote;regardless of its size/population, Congress could not force the states to pay taxes;no Courts, The individual states crested their own policies and money., no king or president to enforce laws

The American Revolution

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The American Revolution

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