Chapter 1

Question 1

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 1

A revolutionary war battle in Boston that demonstrates that the colonists could fight well against the British army

Question 2

Continental Army

Answer 2

The army by the second continental congress in 1755 to defend the American colonists from Britain

Question 3

First continental congress

Answer 3

A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of the of Boston harbor, increasing taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government; delegates petitioned King George the lll, listing the freedoms they believe colonists should enjoy.

Question 4

Minutemen

Answer 4

American colonial militia members ready to fight at minutes notice

Question 5

Patriots

Answer 5

American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the revolutionary war

Question 6

Redcoats

Answer 6

British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the revolutionary war; so called recluse of their bright red uniforms

Question 7

Second continental congress

Answer 7

1775 a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and concord.

Question 8

George Washington

Answer 8

Inspired Americans and helped to unite the and kept peace with Britain and France while under presidency.

Question 9

Common sense

Answer 9

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists to break away from Britain

Question 10

Thomas Paine

Answer 10

American political philosopher and author he urged an immediate Declaration of Independence from England in his anonymously and simply written pamphlet Common sense

Question 11

Declaration of Independence

Answer 11

The document written to declare the colonists free from British rule

Question 12

Loyalists

Answer 12

Colonists who sided with Britain in the American revolution

Question 13

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 13

American states man and member of two continental congresses chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence the declaration’s main author and one of its signers and the third president of the United States

Question 14

Mercenaries

Answer 14

Hired foreign soldiers

Question 15

Battle of Trenton

Answer 15

A revolutionary war battle in New Jersey in which patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops

Question 16

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 16

a revolutionary war battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops marked the patriots greatest victory up to that point in the war

Question 17

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 17

French statesman and officer who viewed the American revolution as important to the world he helped finance the revolution and severed as a major general

Question 18

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

Answer 18

Prussian soldier who helped train American forces at valley forge during the American Revolutionary War

Question 19

Bernardo de Galvez

Answer 19

Governor of Spanish Louisiana, captured Icey critics from the British

Question 20

John Paul jones

Answer 20

American naval officer famed for bravery most famous victory was the defeat of the British warship

Question 21

George Rodgers Clark

Answer 21

American revolution soldier and frontier leader he captured the British trending Village of kiashakia during the revolutionary war

Question 22

Francis Marion

Answer 22

Revolutionary war commander of Marion bridge a group of querrilla soldiers in South Carolina

Question 23

Comte de Rochambeu

Answer 23

French soldier who commanded the French troops in American Revolutionary War, was with general GeorgeWashington on the battle of Yorktown

Question 24

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 24

The last major battle of the revolutionary war site of British general Charles Cornwallis surrenders to the patriots of Virginia

Question 25

Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 25

A peace agreement that officially ended the revolutionary war and established British recognition of the independence of the United States