History of the Americas Questions
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What term was used to indicate government lending and spending?
What Public works Project provided drinking water for Southern California?
What was FDR'S special advisory group called?
What was one of the most successful programs that created jobs and provided cheap electricity?
What term was given to the Midwestern states that were hit by drought and failed crops?
This pamphlet, published by Thomas Paine in 1776, convinced many Americans to support the cause of independence.
By 1867, black Americans had begun to start participating in p__________.
This battle was a surprise attack launched by George Washington on a garrison of Hessian soldiers on Christmas night, 1776.
During the Battle of Liberty Place, men gathered at canal street to protect against what?
With their new skills, the Continental Army was able to win this battle in NJ in the summer of 1778 (this battle also made Molly Pitcher famous).
One county in Massachusetts decided to tell its people to arm and start militias in case of war. The First Continental Congress passed the recommendation on to all of the 13 colonies.
The second meeting of representatives from the colonies. They sent the Olive Branch Petition pleading for peace, appointed Washington to command the American army and wrote the Declaration of Independence.
These laws directly taxedAmerican imports such as paint, glass, lead and paper for the first time.
During the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, the Continental Army was trained by this European army officer.
These laws allowed British officials to search American homes and businesses for smuggled goods.
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, it summarized all the reasons the colonists wanted independence and cut all ties to the British government.
The "shot heard 'round the world" refers to the first fighting of the American Revolution that occurred here.
Paine's second pamphlet was aimed at saving the morale of American soldiers during the dark retreat across New Jersey in the days before the Battle of Trenton.
At this battle outside Boston the American commander told his troops "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
This peace treaty, signed in 1783, officially ended the American Revolution and recognized American independence.