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Class Notes
America, History of Our Nation Textbook Pages 136-165
Use the Crisis in the Colonies the American Nation textbook
pages 138-161 to answer these questions. Answer the following
questions in complete sentences or you will loose half credit!
1. Define the word debt. (Slide 2)
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2. How did the parliament raise money for their debt? (Slide 2)
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3. What was clear in 1775?
(Slide 2)
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4. What was proclaimed in 1749? (Slide 3)
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5. What did King George II summon Christopher Gist to do? (Slide 3)
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6. What did land did France claim? (Slide 5)
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7. What did France build to protect their lands? (Slide 5)
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8. What did the French proclaim? (Slide 5)
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9. Why was the Ohio valley so important? (Slide 5)
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10. Did the Native Americans want to give up their lands to the
European settlers? (Slide 6)
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11. Why did France and England want to make Indian allies? (Slide 6)
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12. Were the French people fur trappers or farmers? (Slide 6)
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13. How did the English people feel about the rights of the Indians?
(Slide 7)
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14. Why did some of the Indians support the English? (Slide 7)
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15. Who walked in the room to meet Captain Joncaire on December
4, 1753? (Slide 8)
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16. What was Washington delivering to Captain Joncaire? (Slide 8)
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17. Where was England and France fighting in the French and Indian
War? (Slide 9; hint what were they fighting for?)
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18. Where did Washington grow up? (Slide 10)
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19. Why did Washington build a fort? (Slide 10)
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20. What did Washington name his fort? (Slide 11)
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21. Who forced Washington to surrender at Fort Necessity? (Slide 11)
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22. What does the snake in the political carton tell you? (Slide 12)
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23. Where did the delegates meet? (Slide 13)
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24. Why did the delegates meet in Albany? (Slide 13)
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25. Did the Iroquois join the British or French? (Slide 13)
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26. Who proposed the Albany Plan of Union? (Slide 14)
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27. What did Franklin mean when he said, “Everyone cries a union is
needed, but when they come to the manner and for the Union, their
weak noodles are perfectly distracted.” (Slide 14)
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28. What advantage did the French people have over the British
people? (Slide 15)
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29. What colonies ruled the seas? (Slide 15)
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30. Who led the British in the attack against fort Duquesne? (Slide 16)
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31. Who warned General Braddock that he was moving his troops too
slow? (Slide 16)
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32. Who became the leader of the British government in 1757?
(Slide 17)
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33.
After the British captured the fort, what did they rename it?
(Slide 17)
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34.
What was the name of the town General James Wolfe was sent
to capture? (Slide 18)
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35.
What was General James Wolfe’s bold plan? (Slide 18)
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36.
The French lost the French and Indian War. They were forced to
sign a treaty. What was the name of that treaty the French signed?
(Slide 20)
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37.
What did the British gain under the Treaty of Paris? (Slide 20)
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38.
What threat did the British wonder about? (Slide 21)
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39.
What is the name of the valley the British drove the French away
from? (Slide 22)
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40.
Many Native Americans lived in the Ohio Valley in 1762.Who
did the British send to keep order in the Ohio Valley? (Slide 22)
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41.
Who was the leader of the Native Americans that fought the
French? (Slide 23)
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42.
What did the French people inform Pontiac in 1763? (Slide 24)
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43.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
(Slide 25)
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44.
What was the Sugar Act? (Slide 27)
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45.
What was the Stamp Act? (Slide 27)
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46.
What happened when the British tried to enforce the Stamp Act?
(Slide 27)
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47.
What did the colonist claim when they were handed the two new
laws? (Slide 28)
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48.
What did the colonists present to King George III in 1765?
(Slide 29)
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49.
Define the word, boycott. (Slide 30)
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50.
Define the words, repeal or repealed? (Slide 30)
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51.
What were the Townshend Acts? (Slide 31)
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52.
What were the nonimportation agreements? (Slide 32)
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53.
Who were the “Sons of Liberty?” (Slide 33)
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54.
What was the Quartering Act? (Slide 36)
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55.
What caused the Boston Massacre? (Slide 37)
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56.
How many people died in the Boston Massacre? (Slide 38)
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57.
King George III agreed to keep a tax on what product after the
repeal of the Townshend Acts? (Slide 39)
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58.
By 1770, how many Americans were drinking tea? (Slide 41)
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59. What did the colonists resent? (Slide 42)
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60. What was The Tea Act? (Slide 42)
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61. What happened in late November 1773? (Slide 43)
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62. What happened at the Boston Tea Party? (Slide 44)
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63. What were the four Intolerable Acts? (Slide 46-47)
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64. What was the “shot heard ‘round the world?” (Slide 48)
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65. On September 1774, delegates from what congress met? (Slide 49)
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66. Define the term, militia. (Slide 50)
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67. Why were the soldiers called minutemen? (Slide 50)
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68. Who said, “Give me Liberty…or give me death!” (Slide 51)
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69. Who arrived into Boston in April 1775? (Slide 53)
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70. Name two famous colonists that wanted to declare independence.
(Slide 54)
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71. Who was Ethan Allen? (Slide 55)
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72. What was the name of the band of Vermonters that Ethan Allen
led? (Slide 55)
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73. What fort did the Green Mountain Boys capture? (Slide 55)
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74. What did the colonists send King George III? (Slide 56)
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75. Who was the commander of the Continental Army? (Slide 56)
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76. What was one weaknesses of the Continental Army? (Slide 57)
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77. Where did Colonel William Prescott take a position? (Slide 58)
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78. What did the British General William Howe do when he spotted the
American troops? (Slide 59)
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79. Why do you think the American’s shouted, “Do not shoot until you
see the whites of their eyes?” (Slide 59)
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80. What was the first major battle of the Revolution called? (Slide 61)
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81. What was Washington’s job in mid-summer? (Slide 62)
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82. What did King George III order? (Slide 64)
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83. What is a blockade? (Slide 64)
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84. What did Richard Montgomery do? (Slide 65)
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85. Were the Americans successful in conquering Quebec? (Slide 66)
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