Chapter 4

Question 1

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 1

• Actually fought on Breed’s Hill

- Colonists were told, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Question 2

Thomas Paine

Answer 2

• Wrote very famous book Common Sense

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

• Wrote the Declaration of Independence

- Got ideas from John Locke about natural right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 4

Declaration of Independence

Answer 4

• 56 signers in all
• Took out a paragraph concerning slavery that could have forced slave colonies to support the King
• 4 sections: 1) Preamble 2) Basic Rights 3) British abuses 4)Declaring Independence

Question 5

April 19, 1775

Answer 5

• Battle of Lexington
• Shot Heard Round the World: No one knows who fired it
• Battle of Concord: 20 miles outside of Boston; British chased all the way back from Concord after their defeat to Boston
• Colonists motto “Taxation without Representation”

Question 6

Battle of Trenton

Answer 6

• Washington and his army cross the Delaware River in the night just after the Hessians celebrated Christmas
• Captured about 900 Hessians, great victory

Question 7

Victory at Saratoga

Answer 7

• The final attack is lead by an injured Benedict Arnold
• The turning point of the war
• Patriots played Yankee Doodle after their victory

Question 8

Valley Forge

Answer 8

• Extremely cold winter, Washington’s army hide out in Pennsylvania
• Around 2,000 men die from disease and starvation

Question 9

Benedict Arnold

Answer 9

• Marries a 19 year old Torie, Peggy Shippen
• Betrays West Point to the British
• Known as America’s Greatest Traitor

Question 10

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 10

• Cornwallis and 8,000 British soldiers surrender

- Last major battle of the war

Question 11

Treaty of Paris

Answer 11

• Ends the 8 year Revolutionary War

                                AMERICA IS INDEPENDENT!!