STAAR Causes and Revolution

Question 1

Document that allowed British custom officials to inspect a ship's cargo without reason

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Writs of Assistance

Question 2

What influence did Common Sense have on the decision to declare independance?

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All people have rights

Question 3

What was the British justification of colonial tax policy?

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They were in debt from the French and Indian War

Question 4

Which was not a colonists reaction to Britians attempt to regulate trade?

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Boston Tea Party

Question 5

protests, writing letters, boycotting English goods are all forms of what?

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Civil disobediance

Question 6

What was the significance of Battle of Saratoga?

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Turning point of the war and gained France as an American ally

Question 7

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are...

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Defined by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Question 8

colonies supply raw materials, products made in England, resold to colonies for profit

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Mercantilism

Question 9

Which was not a strategy of the Colonial army?

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get loyalist support

Question 10

French aristocrat, Major General of continental army, helped to secure France as an ally

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Marquis de Layfayette

Question 11

Colonist who wanted independance from the British?

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Patriots

Question 12

What happened in #4

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Yorktown

Question 13

Which is not one of the four main parts of the Declaration of Independence?

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Olive Branch Petition

Question 14

What is the main significance of the Battle of Yorktown?

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It was the end of the American Revolution

Question 15

"Give me liberty or give me death"

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Patrick Henry

Question 16

The reading above shows the colonists unhappiness with...

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Taxes imposed by Britain after the French and Indian War

Question 17

Which was not a strength of the British Army?

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Fighting for duty

Question 18

Which is not one of the Enlightenment ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

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Who would be President

Question 19

This woman is famous for her "remember the ladies" letter to her husband

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Abigale Adams

Question 20

This law made colonists angry because they could no longer move west

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Proclamation of 1763

Question 21

Who is on the horse?

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King George

Question 22

What was agreed to in the Treaty of Paris 1783?

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surrender of land from the Atlantic to Mississippi River

Question 23

This African American man delivered messages to troops and warned colonist of invasion.

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Wentworth Cheswell

Question 24

This African American sailor was the first person shot at the Boston Massacre?

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Crispus Attucks

Question 25

What did the colonist specifically resent about British tax policy?

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That they did not have colonial representation in Parliment

Question 26

Wrote plays ridiculing British officers and encouraging the fight for independence

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Mercy Otis Warren

Question 27

This man made this political cartoon to bring colonial unity during the French and Indian War.

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Ben Franklin

Question 28

What is the significance of John Hancock?

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Largest signer of the Deceleration of Independence

Question 29

A British policy of avoiding the enforcement of laws, to keep the colonies obedient to England.

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Saultaty or Benign neglect

Question 30

This is the Treaty that ended the American Revolution

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Treaty of Paris 1783

Question 31

#3

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Valley Forge

Question 32

They met to discuss the Intolerable Acts and to prepare for war by setting up a militia

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First Continental Congress

Question 33

Of all the causes that led up to the Revolution, which seemed to be the MOST significant?

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Boston Massacre

Question 34

What is not a reason the for British to apply mecantile policies to the 13 colonies?

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Taxing the colonies

Question 35

Polish born jewish immigrant known as the financer of the American Revolution

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Haym Soloman

Question 36

The reading of the American Crisis by Thomas Pain inspired soldiers at Valley Forge by

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Getting soldiers to stay committed to the war

Question 37

Which of the following was NOT a reason for colonial unrest in 1760's and 1770's?

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Salutary neglect

Question 38

The Boston Tea party was a direct result of what

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Tea Act

Question 39

What was not one of the struggles facing soldiers at Valley Forge?

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Inspirational readings from Paine and motivation from GW

Question 40

Which of the following BEST completes the diagram?

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colonists Boycotted British goods

Question 41

Colonists that do not side with Patriots or Loyalists?

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Neutralists

Question 42

Scottish sailor, father of the U.S. Navy, "I have not yet begun to fight"

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John Paul Jones

Question 43

What was not a part of the Intolerable Acts?

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tax on tea

Question 44

First shots of the American Revolution

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Lexington and Concord

Question 45

Spanish Governor who cut off supplies routes to British and supplying patriots with weapons

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Bernardo de Galvez

Question 46

First shots of the Revolution

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1

Question 47

Which was not a strength of the Continental Army at the start of the war?

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They were well trained

Question 48

Turning point of the war, gained France as an ally

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2

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