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 Acts
5.
Townshend Act
Set of four laws created to punish the Massachusetts colony
for the Boston Tea Party
placed a tax on tea, lead, paper, paint and glass
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
9.
Declaration of Independence Document that stated the colonies were free of British control
10.
Continental Congress and the
Group that met after the Intolerable Acts in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sons of Liberty
11.
Button Gwinnett
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Three Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence
II. The American Revolution
7.
Nancy Hart
Female Georgia patriot who captured and killed a group of Tories
(Georgians loyal to Britain) during the Revolution.
8.
Austin Dabney
African American soldier wounded in the Battle of Kettle Creek;
responsible for saving Elijah Clarke’s life
9.
Elijah Clarke
Led Georgia’s militia to victory over 800 British soldiers
10.
Patriots
Colonists who favored the colonies gaining independence from the British
11.
Loyalist
Colonists who favored remaining under British control
12.
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
13.
Siege of Savannah
14.
Lexington and Concord
American Revolution battle in GA; loss for Georgia as the militia and
continental army failed to retake GA’s capital city from British control
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
15.
Continental Congress
Who met three weeks after the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
16.
Yorktown
The battle that ended the Revolutionary War.
17.
James Wright
Who was Georgia’s last royal governor?
III. Governing Documents
18.
Georgia Constitution of 1777 Georgia’s first constitution; document adopted in Savannah that created
Georgia’s first unicameral government
19.
Articles of Confederation
20.
William Few
Abraham Baldwin
First United States (federal) constitution; created a weak central government
and was eventually replaced by our current constitution
Two representatives from GA that helped to write the new constitution at
the Constitutional Convention of 1787
21.
July 4, 1776
Date the Declaration of Independence was approved.
22.
Savannah, 1777
When and where was GA’s first constitution written?
23.
The governor (executive)
Power limited in the constitution of GA
24.
12 Member Executive Council Most powerful group in GA after the constitution was approved
25.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
26.
John Treutlen
Georgia’s fist governor as a state.
27.
To discuss trade problems
Reason for call the first Constitutional Convention in 1787
Between the states
28.
To revise the AOC
Reason for the second Constitutional Convention in 1787
29.
Fourth
Georgia was the ________ state to ratify the US Constitution
30.
Quick, they need a strong
Georgia was quick/slow to ratify: Why?
National government to help with the Native Americans
31.
William Few
Abraham Baldwin
Signers on the Constitution from GA