Chapter 12 /13

Question 1

Militia

Answer 1

A small army made up of ordinary cizens

Question 2

Rebel

Answer 2

A patriot

Question 3

Repel

Answer 3

To take back or cancel law

Question 4

Liberty

Answer 4

The freedom of citizens, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. In the United States these freedoms are protected by the hill of rights.

Question 5

Boycot

Answer 5

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

Question 6

Loyalist

Answer 6

People in the colonies who wanted the colonist to remain under control of the king and Great Britain. Loyalist were loyal to the kind and opposed independence.

Question 7

Neutralist

Answer 7

American who did not support ethier side in the fight for independence from great britan.

Question 8

Patriot

Answer 8

People in the colonies who wanted to break away from great britan.such as people favored independence.

Question 9

Traitor

Answer 9

A person guilty of acting against his her own country

Question 10

First contented congress

Answer 10

The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain’s thirteen American colonies met to discuss America’s future under growing British aggression.

Question 11

American revolution

Answer 11

an epic political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain’s North American colonies rejected its imperial rule.

Question 12

Battled of bunker hill

Answer 12

bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.

Question 13

Boston tea party

Answer 13

American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor

Question 14

Committees of correspondence

Answer 14

The Committees of Correspondence promoted manufacturing in the Thirteen Colonies and advised colonists not to buy goods imported from Britain.

Question 15

Townshed acts

Answer 15

To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Question 16

Intoreble acts

Answer 16

The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.

Question 17

Sons of liberty

Answer 17

rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they sometimes resorted to violence against British officials.

Question 18

Town meeting

Answer 18

first began in the New England colonies at the beginning of the 1600s. Having travelled to America to pursue religious freedom, the Puritans quickly developed a method of town meeting with which to discuss and decide on community-specific matters.

Question 19

Treason

Answer 19

the betrayal of a trust

Question 20

Stamp act

Answer 20

an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act’s repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.

Question 21

Minutemen

Answer 21

Minutemen were selected from militia muster rolls by their commanding officers. Typically 25 years of age or younger, they were chosen for their enthusiasm, reliability, and physical strength.

Question 22

Assembly

Answer 22

A group of people gathered tougher in one place for a common pupose.

Question 23

Delegate

Answer 23

a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference

Question 24

Petition

Answer 24

a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.