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Topic 1: 200• Question:• What is the definition of a Patriot?• Answer• A colonists who fought for freedom.

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Topic 1: 400• Question:• What are two advantages the Patriots had?• Answer• Leader (GW)• Home-field Advantage• Fighting for a cause• Allies• Strategy-Guerilla Warfare Back

Topic 1: 600• Question:• What are two disadvantages the Patriots had?

• Answer• Lack of:• Troops, supplies, ammo, weapons, clothes,

untrained troops.

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Topic 1: 800• Question:• Who wrote The Crisis and Common Sense• Answer• Thomas Paine

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Topic 1: 1000• Question:• 1. What delegate from Virginia encouraged

colonists to fight for independence from Britain in support of the Patriot cause?

• Answer• Patrick Henry

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Topic 2: 200• Question:• What is the definition of a loyalists? • Answer• A colonists that remained loyal to Great

Britain.

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Topic 2: 400• Question:• What are two British advantages. • Answer• Trained army, more money, supplies, troops.

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Topic 2: 600• Question:• What are two British disadvantages? • Answer• Didn’t know the land. Poor leadership, not

fighting for anything, traditional warfare.

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Topic 2: 800• Question:• What type of warfare was used by the Patriots

to defeat the British and their traditional warfare?

• Answer• Guerilla Warfare

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Topic 2: 1000• Question:• What was the name of change that King

George III created that said the colonists had to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains and that they could not go west into Indian Territory.

• Answer• Proclamation of 1763

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Topic 3: 200• Question:• Who was the king of England?• Answer• George III

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Topic 3: 400• Question:• What was the name of the event where the

Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and through chests of tea into Boston Harbor, in reaction to the Tea Act.

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Topic 3: 600• Question:• What is the name of the events where 5

Patriots were killed while protesting in Boston. The Patriots used this incident as a form of propaganda in hopes to get other colonists to join their cause?

• Answer• Boston Massacre

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Topic 3: 800• Question:• What was the name of the change that King

George III made that created a tax on all printed materials.

• Answer• Stamp Act

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Topic 3: 1000• Question:• What is the period known as when people

used knowledge, reason, and science, to improve society, in other words people started to use their brains to improve society.

• Answer• Age of Enlightenment

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Topic 4: 200• Question:• What was the event that lasted from 1775 to

1783 between the British and the Patriots. • Answer• American Revolution.

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Topic 4: 400• Question:• Who was the leader of the Continental Army? • Answer• George Washington

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• Who is known as the father of the Declaration

of Independence? In other words who is considered the author it.

• Answer• Thomas Jefferson

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Topic 4: 800• Question:• Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered a

turning point in the American revolution? • Answer• Because the French publically became

America’s ally.

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Topic 4: 1000• Question:• What famous and extremely important

American document did Common Sense inspire colonists to write.

• Answer• Declaration of Independence

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• Question:• What was the name of the treaty that marked

the end of the American Revolution? Make sure you have the specific year the treaty was signed.

• Answer• …• Treaty of Paris 1783

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What was the name of the change that King George III made that created a tax on all printed materials.

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