lives, fortunes, sacred honor
taxation without representation, quartering of soldiers, inability to trade freely, excessive taxation, trampling on individual rights, no fair trials
tidewater, coastal plains
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
constitution
True
will and spirit, perseverance, established alliance with France, established alliance with Spain, great leadership (General Washington)
law which forbade colonists from living west of the Appalachian mountains
false
Stamp act
France, Spain, Poland
a confrontation in Boston between armed British soldiers and unarmed civilians which resulted in five deaths.
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)
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
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
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Europe
all men are created equal, all have unalienable rights and all have the right to revolution when a government becomes destructive
unable to be taken away
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
George Washington
minutemen
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
a better life, cheap land, religious freedom,
List 3 reasons for the Regulator Movement in NC
Region in the 13 Original colonies where many fled during the 1700s before settling in the NC colony
Regions of NC where 1st settlements were made (2)
State where the first battles of the Revolutionary War took place
Which act forced colonists to pay duties for documents identifying their goods?
What were the Intolerable Acts?
List 5 reasons the Patriots won the Revolutionary War
List 4 reasons for revolution (answers will vary)
organized New England colonial militia trained in weaponry tactics and military strategies
How did the early colonists collaborate to fight the British? (list 4 ways)
What did the Proclamation of 1763 declare?
A set of rules or procedures for government
True or False? Revolutionary War battles were fought in all regions of the 13 Original colonies
List 2 differences in the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Declaration of Independence
Most immigrants who arrived in the New World were from this continent
List 3 principles of human rights cited by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence
What was the Boston Massacre?
T or F? African Americans were not allowed to serve in the military during the Revolutionary war
List 3 European nations who sent volunteers during the American Revolutionary war
Leader of the Continental Army
What does unalienable mean?
What were the early colonists searching for when they settled in the NC colony? (list 3 things)
List 3 results of the Treaty of Paris
List 3 similarities in the Declaration of Independence and the Mecklenburg Declaration
The Founding Fathers pledged these 3 things in the Declaration of Independence
