Name: ____________________
Date: _____________________
Unit 3: Revolutionary War and Statehood “Almost There”
I. Causes of the American Revolution
1.
French and Indian War
Conflict between France and Great Britain where both sides allied with
several Native American Tribes
2.
__Stamp Act
Law that placed taxes on all paper goods and products
3. Proclamation of 1763
Document, created by King George III, that awarded all land west of the
Appalachian Mountains to Native Americans; angered Georgia colonists
4. Intolerable Act_
Party
5. Townshend Act
Set of four laws created to punish the Massachusetts colonythe Boston Tea
6. Sugar Act
placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the West Indies
7. Georgia
Only colony that did not send a representative to the Continental Congress
8.
Intolerable Acts punished colonies for Boston Tea Party (list 5)
Quartering Act, Quebec Act
placed a tax on tea, lead, paper, paint and glass
Massachusetts Government Act
Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act
9. Declaration of Independence
Document that stated the colonies were free of British control
10. 1st Continental Congress
Name of the two groups that met after the Intolerable Acts in Philadelphia,
____Sons of Liberty_________ Pa.
11. _Button Gwinnett___________
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence
II. The American Revolution
12. Nancy Hart
Female Georgia patriot who captured and killed a group of Tories
(Georgians loyal to Britain) during the Revolution.
13. Austin Dabney
African American soldier wounded in the Battle of Kettle Creek;
responsible for saving Elijah Clarke’s life
14. Elijah Clarke
Led Georgia’s militia to victory over 800 British soldiers
15. _Patriot________
Colonists who favored the colonies gaining independence from the British
16. ___Loyalist__________
Colonists who favored remaining under British control
17. _Battle of Kettle Creek
American Revolution battle in GA; victory for Georgia as the militia were
able to defeat and gain supplies from the British
18. Siege of Savannah
American Revolution battle in GA; loss for Georgia as the militia and
continental army failed to retake GA’s capital city from British control
19. Battle of Lexington and Concord _ The first battle of the Revolutionary War
20. 2nd Continental Congress
Who met three weeks after the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
21. The Battle of Yorktown
battle that ended the Revolutionary War.
22. James Wright
Who was Georgia’s last royal governor?
III. Governing Documents
23. Constitution of 1777
Georgia’s first constitution; document adopted in Savannah that created
Georgia’s first unicameral government
24. Articles of Confederation
First United States (federal) constitution; created a weak central government
and was eventually replaced by our current constitution
Describe the two plans that led to The Great Compromise at
25. New Jersey (small)
Virginia Plans (large)
the Constitutional Convention of 1787
26. Establishing a bicameral legislature What is The Great Compromise?
27. Date the Declaration of Independence was approved.
28. _Rhode Island
Which state did not attend the Constitutional Convention
29. Savannah, 1777
When and where was GA’s first constitution written?
30. Governor
Whose power was limited in the constitution of GA (Executive Branch)
31. Executive Council
32. Treaty of Paris 1783
Most powerful group in GA after the constitution was approved
(in the legislative branch)
Treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
33. John Treutlen
Georgia’s fist governor as a state.
34. Discuss trade
Reason for call the first Constitutional Convention in 1787
35. Revise the AOC
Reason for the second Constitutional Convention in 1787
36. 4th
Georgia was the ________ state to ratify the US Constitution
37. To move west and move the Indians Georgia was quick/slow to ratify: Why?
38. Abraham Baldwin
William Few
Signers on the Constitution from GA