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POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1 Nightingale College Questions with complete solution POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1 French and Indian War - correct answer -1754 to 1763 -"7 year war" -Great Britain goes bankrupt -causes them to tax to increase revenue Stamp Act - correct answer -1765 -law that taxed pri...

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POSC 225 Cohen Exam 1
French and Indian War - correct answer ✔-1754 to 1763
-"7 year war"
-Great Britain goes bankrupt
-causes them to tax to increase revenue


Stamp Act - correct answer ✔-1765
-law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents,
newspapers, etc.
-Stamp Act Congress


Tea Act of 1773 - correct answer ✔-Law passed by parliament allowing the
British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies -
undermining colonial tea merchants
-led to the Boston Tea Party


Boston Tea Party - correct answer ✔dumping of tea into the Boston harbor
to protest the tax on tea


Coercive Act - correct answer ✔-1774
-Britain's response to the Boston tea party
-closed port of Boston


First Continental Congress - correct answer ✔-September 1774
-delegates from twelve colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to
discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts

,-agreement to ban all trade with Britain until the taxes and regulations were
revoked


Battles of Lexington and Concord - correct answer ✔-1775 conflicts between
Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the Revolutionary
War
-"Shot heard round the world"


Second Continental Congress - correct answer ✔-They organized the
continental Army
-called on the colonies to send troops
-selected George Washington to lead the army
-appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence
-acted as a national government to manage the war effort


Declaration of Independence - correct answer ✔-written by Thomas
Jefferson
-Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries
-it declared the United States as a free state
-In place of divine right stood 3 principles
1. government arises from consent of the governed
2. power should be divided among several institutions
3. citizens rights must be protected
-several grievances stated by Jefferson, but nothing about slavery


Beginning of Revolutionary War - correct answer ✔-General Washington
believed we would lose the war wihtout government involvement
-NOT going well, had no money

,-Congress wanted states to provide their own troops


Winter at Valley Forge (1777-1778) - correct answer ✔-Washington's army
encamped near Philadelphia and experienced a cold winter with little food
-Time was used to train, led by Friedrich von Steuben
Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette
-used his own money to provide clothing and food to the soldiers


Defeats in South Carolina - correct answer ✔-Americans suffer their worst
defeat of the revolution
-surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General
Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina
-With the victory, the British captured more than 3,000 Patriots and a great
quantity of munitions and equipment, losing only 250 killed and wounded in
the process


Benedict Arnold - correct answer ✔-American General who was labeled a
traitor when he assisted the British in a failed attempt to take the American fort
at West Point
-George Washington fully trusted him but he planned to surrender to the
British; plot was discovered and he fled to Britain


Government under the Articles of Confederation - correct answer ✔-
hampering the war effort
-unanimous approval was needed for all important actions (not quick)
-no administrative apparatus
-free riding (benefit without paying for it)

, Tide Turns - correct answer ✔we got help from France with money and
military support


Yorktown - correct answer ✔-1781 during the American Revolution
-the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by
American and French troops


Articles of Confederation - correct answer ✔-nation's first constitution
-granted power to the states and created a weak federal government
-federal government didn't have enough power to tax, had trouble raising
money to pay debts
-very ineffective during the revolutionary war
-for major laws to be passed, need 9 out of 13 states to agree (each state got
one vote)


Shay's Rebellion - correct answer ✔-January 1787
-rebellion of farmers who went bankrupt
-planned an assault against the government
-government couldn't provide money or troops
-saw the articles needed to be changed or gotten rid of
-persuaded state leaders of the need for a stronger national government


Constitutional Convention - correct answer ✔-met in Philadelphia during hot
summer in 1787
-met to change the articles of confederation
-James Madison took notes
-officially become law of land by June 21, 1788
-New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify

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