| Unite |
| #1 |
True or False? Revolutionary War battles were fought in all regions of the 13 Original colonies |
True |
| #2 |
State where the first battles of the Revolutionary War took place |
Massachusetts |
| #3 |
The Founding Fathers pledged these 3 things in the Declaration of Independence |
lives, fortunes, sacred honor |
| #4 |
List 2 differences in the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Declaration of Independence |
Meck Deck. is from a county in the NC colony, the Declaration of Independence was developed by representatives from all of the 13 Original colonies, the Meck Deck was written more than a year before the Declaration of Independence |
| #5 |
List 5 reasons the Patriots won the Revolutionary War |
will and spirit, perseverance, established alliance with France, established alliance with Spain, great leadership (General Washington) |
| We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident.... |
| #1 |
Region in the 13 Original colonies where many fled during the 1700s before settling in the NC colony |
Pennsylvania |
| #2 |
What was the Boston Massacre? |
a confrontation in Boston between armed British soldiers and unarmed civilians which resulted in five deaths. |
| #3 |
List 4 reasons for revolution (answers will vary) |
taxation without representation, quartering of soldiers, inability to trade freely, excessive taxation, trampling on individual rights, no fair trials |
| #4 |
What were the early colonists searching for when they settled in the NC colony? (list 3 things) |
a better life, cheap land, religious freedom, |
| #5 |
How did the early colonists collaborate to fight the British? (list 4 ways) |
they created spy networks, they trained and formed militias, they created secret societies like the Sons of Liberty, they developed systems of self government like the Continental Congress |
| Do not tread on me! |
| #1 |
A set of rules or procedures for government |
constitution |
| #2 |
Which act forced colonists to pay duties for documents identifying their goods? |
Stamp act |
| #3 |
What were the Intolerable Acts? |
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. (British blocked the port in Boston, limited self government and required the quartering of soldiers) |
| #4 |
List 3 reasons for the Regulator Movement in NC |
sectionalism, corrupt government officials, extreme socio-economic differences between those living in the backcountry and those living in the coastal plains and tidewater regions of NC |
| #5 |
List 3 principles of human rights cited by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence |
all men are created equal, all have unalienable rights and all have the right to revolution when a government becomes destructive |
| No More Kings |
| #1 |
T or F? African Americans were not allowed to serve in the military during the Revolutionary war |
false |
| #2 |
What does unalienable mean? |
unable to be taken away |
| #3 |
Most immigrants who arrived in the New World were from this continent |
Europe |
| #4 |
List 3 similarities in the Declaration of Independence and the Mecklenburg Declaration |
Both declared themselves free from British rule, both pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, both identified grievances with the King/rule of the British army |
| #5 |
List 3 results of the Treaty of Paris |
United States is granted independence from Great Britain, Florida is returned to Spain, confiscated property is returned to Loyalists who lost it during the war |
