APUSHch5

Question 1

First Continental Congress (1774)

Answer 1

All of the colonies except Georgia sent representatives to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and liberties (caused by Intolerable Acts)

Question 2

Patrick Henry

Answer 2

Radical from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress. “Give me liberty or give me death!”

Question 3

Samuel Adams

Answer 3

Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; started Committees of Correspondence

Question 4

John Adams

Answer 4

Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; acted as lawyer for British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre

Question 5

George Washington

Answer 5

Moderate from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress; position of respect in colonial army

Question 6

John Dickinson

Answer 6

Moderate from Pennsylvania; delegate at Continental Congress; writer of “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania”

Question 7

John Jay

Answer 7

Conservative from New York; delegate at Continental Congress

Question 8

Joseph Galloway

Answer 8

Conservative from Pennsylvania; delegate at Continental Congress; proposed a plan that would have reordered relations with Parliment (plan lost by one vote)

Question 9

Suffolk Resolves

Answer 9

These rejected the Intolerable Acts and called for their repeal; they also urged the colonies to make military preparations and organize boycotts

Question 10

economic sanctions

Answer 10

a.k.a boycotts

Question 11

Declaration fo Rights and Grievances

Answer 11

A petition to the king urging him to make right colonial grievances and restore colonial rights

Question 12

Paul Revere

Answer 12

Warned militiamen that the British were coming along with William Dawes (Battle of Lexington and Concord)

Question 13

William Dawes

Answer 13

Warned militiamen that the British were coming along with Paul Revere (Battle of Lexington and Concord)

Question 14

Minutemen

Answer 14

Another word for the colonial militia

Question 15

Lexington

Answer 15

British soldiers tried to seize colonial military supplies; 8 colonial minutemen were killed

Question 16

Concord

Answer 16

British soldiers tried to destroy colonial military supplies; on the return to Boston, the British suffered 250 casualties when abushed by milita men

Question 17

Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

Answer 17

Americans lost to British, but British suffered heavy casualties in this first true battle of the war (June 17, 1775)

Question 18

Second Continental Congress (1775)

Answer 18

(May 1775) Representatives adopted the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms and sent the Olive Branch Petition to the king

Question 19

Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms

Answer 19

A letter to the world explaining why the colonies were rebelling and that it was necessary

Question 20

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 20

(July 1775) Last ditch effort for peace; colonists pledged their loyalty and asked the king to go to Parliment and protect their colonial rights

Question 21

Prohibitory Act (1775)

Answer 21

(1775) Declaration of the king saying the colonies were in rebellion

Question 22

Thomas Paine; Common Sense

Answer 22

(January 1776) Pamphlet that argued in clear, logical language that the colonies should break with Britain

Question 23

Declaration of Independence

Answer 23

Richard Lee first introduced a resolution declaring the colonies to be independent; but this declaration, written by Thomas Jefferson is most well known; ratified on July 4th 1776

Question 24

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 24

Writer of the Declaration of Independence

Question 25

Patriots

Answer 25

Most of this group came from New England or Virginia and wanted freedom for the colonies

Question 26

Loyalists (Tories)

Answer 26

The majority of this group tended to be wealthy and conservative and many of the clergy and government officials were in this group; pro-British

Question 27

Valley Forge

Answer 27

Washington’s troops spent a harsh winter here after losing Philadelphia to the British (1777-1778)

Question 28

Continentals

Answer 28

Paper money issued by Congress which was almost worthless due to inflation

Question 29

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 29

(October 1777) Turning point of the war; led to the French joining the colonists

Question 30

absolute monarch

Answer 30

Although France had this kind of government; King Louis decided to help the colonies succeed in their rebellion in order to weaken the British

Question 31

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 31

(1781) Last battle of the Revolutionary War; support from French helped a lot

Question 32

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Answer 32

Treaty which stated that: 1. Britain would recognize the existence of the US 2. The Mississippi River would be the western border of the US 3. Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada 4. Americans would pay debts owed to British merchants and honor Loyalist claims for property confiscated during the war