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American Colonial Period & Revolution

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The Thirteen Colonies, the American Revolution and the path to independence.

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When did the American Revolution take place?

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1When did the American Revolution take place?
1765 to 1783, from early colonial tensions through the Treaty of Paris
2What were the Thirteen Colonies?
British colonies in North America that rebelled and became the United States
3What was the outcome of the American Revolution?
Independence of the United States from Great Britain, dissolution of British America, end of the First British Empire, and establishment of the world's first federal republic
4What was salutary neglect?
An unofficial British policy whereby the colonies were largely left to govern themselves, adopted after the Glorious Revolution until the French and Indian War
5When did the French and Indian War end?
1763, after which British policy toward the colonies changed significantly
6What sparked colonial discontent after 1763?
British Parliament imposed new taxes to compensate for war costs and transferred control of colonies' western lands to British officials in Montreal
7What was the Stamp Act?
A 1765 tax imposed by Parliament that prompted colonial representatives to convene the Stamp Act Congress
8What was the Stamp Act Congress?
A 1765 meeting of colonial representatives in New York City that produced the Declaration of Rights and Grievances
9What did 'No taxation without representation' mean?
The colonial argument that Parliament could not tax them because they had no elected representatives in Parliament
10What rights did colonists claim were being violated?
Their rights as Englishmen, guaranteed by the British constitution
11What were the Townshend Acts?
Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 (after the Stamp Act was repealed) that reignited colonial tensions
12What was the Boston Massacre?
A 1770 incident where British troops deployed to Boston killed colonial antagonists
13Who were the Sons of Liberty?
An underground organization that led colonial resistance, including orchestrating the Boston Tea Party
14What was the Boston Tea Party?
December 1773 protest where Sons of Liberty dumped chests of taxed tea owned by the British East India Company into Boston Harbor
15What were the Intolerable Acts?
A series of punitive laws enacted by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party that attempted to end self-government in Massachusetts but increased support for revolution
16When was the First Continental Congress?
1774, when twelve of the Thirteen Colonies sent delegates (Georgia joined in 1775)
17What was the purpose of the First Continental Congress?
To coordinate Patriot resistance through underground networks of committees largely built on the Sons of Liberty
18What were the Committees of Correspondence?
Underground networks that coordinated colonial resistance efforts
19When did King George III proclaim Massachusetts in rebellion?
August 1775
20What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War, sparked when the British attempted to disarm the colonists
21Who was George Washington?
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, appointed by the Second Continental Congress in 1775
22What was the Siege of Boston?
The Continental Army surrounded Boston, forcing the British to withdraw by sea in March 1776, leaving Patriots in control in every colony
23When did Congress vote to suppress Crown authority?
May 1776, to be replaced by locally created authority with each colony creating a state constitution
24What was the Lee Resolution?
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1776, affirming support for joint independence
25When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July 4, 1776, unanimously by the Second Continental Congress
26What famous principle did the Declaration proclaim?
That 'all men are created equal' and that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed
27What were the Articles of Confederation?
An effort to establish a multi-state self-governing coordinating body capable of negotiating treaties and prosecuting the war
28When did France enter the Revolutionary War?
France ultimately entered the war supporting the revolutionary cause (formal alliance in 1778)
29What was the Siege of Yorktown?
September 28, 1781 - Washington's Continental Army captured a British army under General Cornwallis, leading to the collapse of King George's control of Parliament
30When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War