American Revolution Part 1 Flashcards
What is the shot heard around the world that started the American Revolution - where was it fired from?
Lexington
What is the name of the unit of Black troops recruited by the Virginia governor from colonial plantations, who were offered freedom if they fought for the British Army?
Ethiopian Corp
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What was one of the forts captured by American forces, near Lake Champlain, whose cannons were used to drive the British forces out of Boston?
Ft. Ticonderoga
Who was the general that took over leadership of British forces in America? (After the disaster at Bunker Hill.)
General William Howe
What was the name of the organization of delegates who voted to organize an army and named a commander-in-chief of the army?
2nd Continental Congress
What were the name of the colonist who vowed to be ready to fight in a minute’s notice?
Minutemen
What British general ordered a secret assault on the storage of arms and ammunition at Concord?
General Thomas Gage
Who was one of the riders that warned the colonist that the British were marching on Concord, Massachusetts?
Paul Revere
What political idea allowed people to have the right to change an unfair government?
Social Contract
Where were cannons placed near Boston that forced the British to evacuate that city and go to Canada?
Dorchester Heights
What was the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Pain, that tired to persuade the colonist to seek independence?
Common Sense
Which plea of the Continental delegates to King George solved the problems between the Colonies and the British Parliament?
The Olive Branch Petition
What was the name given to those who wished to remain subjects of the King?
Loyalist
What was the name given to those colonist who favored independence?
Patriots
What was the name given to the revolution of ideals, to rational thinking and scientific inquiry?
The Enlightenment
Who was the man chosen as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
What was the name of the colonial army that captured the cannons from forts located near Lake Champlain and then transported to Boston?
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Who was the slave woman, named after a slave ship, learned to read English, Greek, Latin and wrote a book of poems?
Phillis Wheatley
What was the name given to the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated by John Locke?
Natural Rights
What was the official regular army of the colonies called?
The Continental Army
Which woman that encouraged John Adams to “remember the ladies” in the development of a free government?
Abigail Adams
What was the Preamble, theories of government and the reasons for separation all included in?
The Declaration of Independence
What name was given to the mercenary troops from Germany hired by the the British to fight the Americans?
Hessians
