American Revolution

Question 1

First Continental Congress

Answer 1

-A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, Increased taxes, and abuse to authority by the British government, delegates petitioned King George III, listing the freedoms they believed colonists should enjoy.

Question 2

Patriots

Answer 2

-American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the revolutionary war.

Question 3

Minutemen

Answer 3

-American colonial militia members ready to fight in a minutes notice.

Question 4

Redcoats

Answer 4

-British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution, so called because their red uniforms.

Question 5

Second Continental Congress

Answer 5

-A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord.

Question 6

Continental Army

Answer 6

-The army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain.

Question 7

George Washington

Answer 7

-Revolutionary War hero and Patriot leader, he served as a representative to the Continental Congress, commanded the Continental Army, and unanimously elected to two terms as president of the United States.

Question 8

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 8

-A Revolutionary war battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British Army.

Question 9

Common Sense

Answer 9

-A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain.

Question 10

Thomas Paine

Answer 10

-American political philosopher and author, he urged an immediate Declaration of Independence from England in his anonymously and simply written pamphlet, Common Sense.

Question 11

Declaration of Independence

Answer 11

-The document written to declare the colonies free from British rule.

Question 12

-Thomas Jefferson

Answer 12

-American states man, and member of two Continental Congress, chairmen of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, the Declarations main author and one of its signers, and the third president of the United States.

Question 13

Loyalist

Answer 13

-Colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution.

Question 14

Mercenaries

Answer 14

-Hired foreign solders.

Question 15

Battle of Trenton

Answer 15

-A Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 hessian troops.

Question 16

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 16

-A Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops marked the Patriots greatest victory up to that point in the war.

Question 17

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 17

-French states man and officer who viewed the American Revolution as an important to the world he helped finance the Revolution and served as a major general.

Question 18

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

Answer 18

-Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at Vally Forge during the American Revolutionary War.

Question 19

-John Paul Jones

Answer 19

-American naval officer famed for bravery, his most famous victory was the defeat of the British warship Serapis during which he declared,”I have not yet begun to fight.”

Question 20

George Rogers Clark

Answer 20

-American Revolutionary solider and frontier leader he captured the British trading village of Kaskaskia during the Revolution and encouraged Indian leaders to remain neutral.

Question 21

Francis Marion

Answer 21

-Revolutionary War commander of Marion’s Brigade a group of guerrilla soldiers in South Carolina that used surprise raids against the British communications and supply lines.

Question 22

Comte de Rochambeau

Answer 22

-French soldier who commanded the French troops in the American Revolutionary War. He was with General Washington at the battle of Yorktown.

Question 23

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 23

-The last major battle of the Revolutionary War, site of British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the Patriots in Virginia.

Question 24

Treaty of Paris of 1783

Answer 24

-A peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the independence of the United States.