American Revolution

Question 0

William Pitt

Answer 0

-allows colonists to fight
-Iroquois Allies
-Treaty of Paris- Brit. gets all the land East of the Mississippi River
(doubles the land)

Question 1

French & Indian War

Answer 1

• Seven Years War
• Conflict btw Britain and France
• Brit. wants land of the Ohio River Valleys
• Brit. militia loses cause’ they are not used to the Real World Warfare strategies

Question 2

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 2

No colonist is allowed to live west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 3

navigation acts

Answer 3

colonists are only allowed to trade with Brit.

Question 4

stamp act

Answer 4

tax on all imp. documents (paper)

• after french&indian war
• before boston massacre

Question 6

treason

Answer 6

act of leaking info. betrayal

Question 7

Lexington & Concord

Answer 7

• after 1st continental congress, ppl. start stockpiling weapons
• Brit. troops march from Boston to Concord to seas weapons
• Paul Revere- “the brit. are coming”

Question 8

minute man

Answer 8

civilian soldiers

Question 9

“shot heard around the world”

Answer 9

april 19, 1775

Question 10

George Washington

Answer 10

commander of the Continental Army

Question 11

Oliver Branch Petition

Answer 11

Last Attempt to compromise with Brit.

Question 12

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 12

• “Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eyes”
• deadliest battle of the war.
• low on ammunition (Ame.)

Question 13

Common Sence

Answer 13

• By Thomas Paine
• pamphlet for independence
• influence colonial thought

Question 14

Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

July 4, 1776

Question 15

Loyalists

Answer 15

loyal to the king

Question 16

patriots

Answer 16

supporters of the independence

Question 17

American Allies during the rev. war

Answer 17

France, Spain, Dutch

Question 18

Boston tea party

Answer 18

Tea dumped into the Boston Harbor, after the monopolization of tea was given to the East India Company
ppl. dressed as indians (at night)

Question 19

intolerable acts

Answer 19

Impartial Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or even to England if he feared that juries in those colonies wouldn’t judge a case fairly
Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn’t have approval of the royal governor
Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts colony.
Quartering Act, which allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available
Quebec Act, which granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics living in Quebec.

Question 20

Battle of Treaton

Answer 20

Washington surprise attack

• confidence booster for ame.
• enemy drunk

Question 21

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 21

Turning Point Battle

• defeat changes brit. strategies
• ame. get allies france, spain, dutch

Question 22

Valley Forge

Answer 22

Camp- Continental Army’s Winter
struggle to stay alive, frostbite, food shortage
2,000 soldiers died that winter

Question 23

Trained continental army

Answer 23

Von Steuben & Lafeyette

Question 24

Brit. Surrendered

Answer 24

York Town 1781

-treaty of Paris 1783

Question 25

Boston Massacre

Answer 25

Crispus Attucks (1st to die)
-after stamp act
5 ppl. died
1770