Chapter5- Vocab

Question 0

Patriot who warned Sam Adams and John Hancock of British attack

Answer 0

Paul Revere

Question 1

What Americans called the Coercive Acts

Answer 1

Intolerable Acts

Question 2

Group formed to keep contact with radicals throughout Massachusetts

Answer 2

Committee of Correspondence

Question 3

Sent the Olive Branch Petition to the English king

Answer 3

William Howe

Question 4

Commander in chief of the American army

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

The cruel and unjust use of power

Answer 5

Tyranny

Question 6

Form of government in which political power comes from the people

Answer 6

Democracy

Question 7

Argued the king should be “ servants to the people”

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson

Question 8

Delegates who gathered in Philadelphia in September 1774 to discuss British government actions

Answer 8

First Continental Congress

Question 9

The exclusive control of a product or service in a given market

Answer 9

Monopoly

Question 10

American who carried the Revolutionary War into the west

Answer 10

George Rogers Clark

Question 11

Colonial militia companies

Answer 11

Minute men

Question 12

American colonists loyal to England

Answer 12

Tories

Question 13

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 13

Thomas Jefferson

Question 14

American army officer who betrayed America

Answer 14

Benedict Arnold

Question 15

Author of common sense

Answer 15

Thomas Paine

Question 16

People enthusiastic for Independence only when things were going well

Answer 16

Sunshine patriots

Question 17

Resulted in France officially recognizing the government of the United States

Answer 17

Battle of Saratoga

Question 18

Hired soldiers who kill for money

Answer 18

Mercenaries

Question 19

Americans who believed in patriotic resistance to King George

Answer 19

Whigs