american revolution part 2

Question 1

Patrick henry

Answer 1

give me liberty or give me death

Question 2

James Otis

Answer 2

no taxation without representation

Question 3

virtual rep

Answer 3

the idea that the parliament represents ALL British subjects

Question 4

sons of liberty

Answer 4

group of american patriots who use “terroristic methods” to fight for their rights

Question 5

daughters of liberty

Answer 5

colonial women who boycott british goods - led to a sharp drop in trade; hurt london merchants

Question 6

stamp act congress

Answer 6

9 colonies met up in NYC and decided that only their elected rep. can approve of taxes

Question 7

non-importation agreements

Answer 7

colonial attempt to boycott all british goods to force political rights and recognition

Question 8

townshend acts

Answer 8

act on 3 things, named after charles townshend; repealed by Lord North. Kept small taxes on tea as a symbol of the parliament’s right.

Question 9

writs of assistance

Answer 9

british could seize colonists’s goods and property

Question 10

john dickinson

Answer 10

wrote the pamphlet that states that the British can regulate commence but cant tax the colonists w/o representation

Question 11

John hancock

Answer 11

shipowner and smuggler who funded the sons of liberty
-signature on the declaration of Independence

Question 12

sam adams

Answer 12

failed businessman > leader of the sons of liberty

Question 13

Boston Massacre

Answer 13

1st bloodshed of the revolution

Question 14

paul revere

Answer 14

silversmith, engraver, dentist famous for his engravings Midnight ride and the Boston massacre

Question 15

lord north

Answer 15

prime minister when england loses the colonists

Question 16

committees of correspondence

Answer 16

secretive governments set up in mass. to talk about the British

Question 17

the gaspee

Answer 17

british customs that were robbed and burned off the coast of Rhode Island

Question 18

boston tea party

Answer 18

event made by the sons of liberty where they threw tea in the Boston harbor

Question 19

intolerable acts

Answer 19

what the colonists named the coercive acts and Quebec acts

Question 20

thomas gage

Answer 20

royal governor of mass and main general for British at the start of the war

Question 21

1st continental congress

Answer 21

group of delegates who petitioned king george 3 of grievances
1) boycott all British goods
2) call up all militia men
3) reaffirm allegiance to britain

Question 22

minute men

Answer 22

colonial militia men ready to fight in short notice

Question 23

militia

Answer 23

towns people who are prepared to defend their territory

Question 24

lexington and concord

Answer 24

1st military engagments

Question 25

2nd continental congress

Answer 25

an attempt by the colonies to form a government
a) post office established
b) continental army w/ gw in charge
c) continental currency

Question 26

breed’s hill

Answer 26

1st official battle

Question 27

olive branch petition

Answer 27

last colonial attempt to stop the war; rejected by king george 3

Question 28

benedict arnold

Answer 28

colonial general who turns to the other side because of the rejected promotion

Question 29

thomas paine

Answer 29

author of the pro independent pamphlets common sense and the crisis

Question 30

ethan allen

Answer 30

leader of the green mountain boys who helped free for tico
and helped create vermont

Question 31

thomas jefferson

Answer 31

main author of the declaration of independence

Question 32

patriots

Answer 32

pro independence 40 -50% (NE and V)

Question 33

loyalists/tories

Answer 33

anti-independence 20-30% (NJ NY and deep south)