american revolution

Question 1

persuasive pamphlet against the king

Answer 1

common sense

Question 2

led to massive British debt

Answer 2

French and Indian war

Question 3

required that all paper goods be taxed

Answer 3

stamp act 1765

Question 4

the shot heard round the world happened here

Answer 4

Lexington and concord

Question 5

the cause of the passing of the intolerable acts

Answer 5

Boston tea party 1773

Question 6

impeded western expansion

Answer 6

proclamation of 1763

Question 7

tried Americans in British military courts

Answer 7

admiralty courts

Question 8

firebrands organized to protest the stamp act

Answer 8

some of Liberty formed

Question 9

first act of taxation passed

Answer 9

sugar act 1764

Question 10

5 colonists were killed in this confrontation

Answer 10

Boston massacre 1770

Question 11

the reason the first continental congress met

Answer 11

coercive/ intolerable acts

Question 12

a loyalist to the crown

Answer 12

Tories

Question 13

banned all colonial paper money

Answer 13

currency act 1764

Question 14

economic system that led to war

Answer 14

mercantilism

Question 15

first acts passed to limit colonial trade

Answer 15

navigation acts

Question 16

where did the final battle of the American Revolution take place

Answer 16

Yorktown

Question 17

commander of the continental army

Answer 17

George Washington

Question 18

firebrand that was the leader of the sons of Liberty from Boston

Answer 18

Samuel Adams

Question 19

John Adams worked as a farmer and _________ before becoming a politician

Answer 19

lawyer

Question 20

who wrote common sense and influenced 100s of thousands of people

Answer 20

Paine

Question 21

where was the bloodiest battle of the war

Answer 21

battle of bunker hill

Question 22

where did washingtons troops stay during the winter

Answer 22

valley forge

Question 23

who wrote the first American English dictionary

Answer 23

Noah Webster

Question 24

where did Burgoyne surrender that caused the French to join the war

Answer 24

saratoga

Question 25

what battle convinced southern farmers to fight

Answer 25

battle of kings mountain

Question 26

after reading the declaration what statues were torn down in New York

Answer 26

King George III

Question 27

who was the first casualty during the American Revolution

Answer 27

crispus Attucks

Question 28

what was signed on September 3rd 1783 that ended the war

Answer 28

treaty of Paris

Question 29

who freedom using the Massachusetts constitution

Answer 29

Elizabeth freeman

Question 30

Charles Wilson Peale is best known for his portraits of what

Answer 30

George Washington

Question 31

not in favor of declaring independence

Answer 31

John Dickinson

Question 32

who said “I have not yet begun to fight

Answer 32

John Paul jones

Question 33

leader of the French forces in America

Answer 33

Lafayette

Question 34

who led a British force over 32000 at New York

Answer 34

William Howe

Question 35

who was beaten with a cane, went insane, and died of a lightning strike

Answer 35

James Otis

Question 36

engraver and propagandist

Answer 36

Paul revere

Question 37

British ship seized and burned

Answer 37

gaspee affair 1772