REVOLUTION'S IN THE AIR - WHOSE AT FAULT?
1. These two Georges thought it would be great to make the colonies
share
the cost of empire.
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2. This fiery
orator wrote the Virginia Stamp Act Resolves and probably DID
NOT SAY "If
this be treason, make the most of it!" _______________________
3. Stamp
distributor hanged in effigy by the Loyal Nine in 1765._____________
4.
This Massachusetts lieutenant governor had his house destroyed on August
26,
1765 by a Boston mob. ________________________________________________
5.
This chancellor of the exchequer imposed duties and established
additional
vice-admiralty courts in 1767. ________________________________
6. This
"Pennsylvania Farmer" wrote that Parliament could regulate colonial
trade but
not for the purpose of raising revenue. ________________________
7. This
new minister persuaded Parliament to repeal the Townshend duties
except for
the tax on tea. ______________________________________________
8. He
headed the Boston Committee of Correspondence.
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9. These people were also called Loyalists.
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10. This governor of Virginia offered
freedom to any slave or indentured
servant who joined the British forces.
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11. Alerted the countryside that the
Redcoats were coming. __________________
12. Massachusetts militiamen
ready for action at a moment's notice. _________
13. He was the American
commander at Lexington. _____________________________
14. He was elected
president of the Second Continental Congress. ____________
15. He was
named commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. ________________
16.
They were mercenaries from Germany employed by the British.
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17. He was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
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18. He was the American Chief of Artillery.
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19. His "Common Sense" was published
January 10, 1776. ______________________
20. British general who
evacuated his troops from Boston, moved them to
Halifax, and eventually to NY
City beginning in March, 1776. ____________
21. He introduced a
resolution for independency on June 7, 1776. ____________
22. They were
the members of the Declaration Committee.
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23.
He actually wrote most of the Declaration.
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24. The Declaration was addressed to him.
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25. He was the American emmissary to
France in late 1776. _________________
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26. This French aristocrat volunteered for service with George
Washington
and fought until the end of hostilities.
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27. He secured the Northwest Territory in
1778 by driving the British out
of the Ohio Country?
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28. This American
naval commander defeated the British on Sept. 23, 1779.
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29. He was in charge of the British southern
campaign. ____________________
30. He plotted to surrender West Point to
the British. ____________________
31. He and his men employed hit-and-run
tactics against the British in
South Carolina.
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THE FIRST GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
32. He was the first governor of the Northwest Territory.
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33. This leader of the Miami Confederacy was
responsible for the worst
defeat in the history of the American frontier in
1791. _______________
34. He led that American forces at the 1794 Battle
of Fallen Timbers. _____
35. He wrote Life of Washington.
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36. He was the most well-known
portrait painter of the early
Republic.
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37. She published a series of
essays in the 1780's and 1790's arguing the
equal intellectual ability of men
and women. She has been called the
"first American feminist".
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38. This free black
surveyor, astronomer, and mathematical genius
challenged Jefferson's
racial-inferiority premise in 1791. ____________