Ch. 4 The War for Independence

Question 1

Stamp Act

Answer 1

Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspaper

Question 2

Samuel Adams

Answer 2

One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty

Question 3

Townshend Acts

Answer 3

Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed

Question 5

Committees of Correspondence

Answer 5

A network of communication set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights

Question 6

Boston Tea Party

Answer 6

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor

Question 7

King George III

Answer 7

King of England during the American Revolution

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British

Question 9

martial law

Answer 9

rule by the military

Question 10

minutemen

Answer 10

civilian soldiers

Question 11

Second Continental Congress

Answer 11

The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independece

Question 12

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 12

An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III

Question 13

Common Sense

Answer 13

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy

Question 14

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 14

Main author of the Declaration of Independence

Question 15

Declaration of Independence

Answer 15

Document that said the US was an independent nation

Question 16

Patriots

Answer 16

Colonists who wanted independence from Britain

Question 17

Loyalists

Answer 17

Colonists who were loyal to Britain

Question 18

Trenton

Answer 18

Battle won by the Americans in 1776

Question 19

Saratoga

Answer 19

Battle won by the Americans in 1777

Question 20

Valley Forge

Answer 20

Place where Washington’s army spent the winter of 1777-1778

Question 21

inflation

Answer 21

rise in the price of goods

Question 22

profiteering

Answer 22

selling goods that are difficulty to come by for a profit

Question 23

Friedrich von Steuben

Answer 23

Prussian officer who helped train American soldiers

Question 24

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 24

French noble who helped the Americans

Question 25

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 25

British general

Question 26

Yorktown

Answer 26

Battle that gave Americans victory in the war

Question 27

Treaty of Paris

Answer 27

Treaty that officially ended the war

Question 28

egalitarianism

Answer 28

A belief in equality