Chapter6

Question 1

1)American negotiator of the Treaty of Paris and member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 1

John Adams

Question 2

2)American soldier who committee treason by agreeing to hand over a fort to the British.

Answer 2

Benedict Arnold

Question 3

3)British general who surrendered his army near Saratoga.

Answer 3

John Burgoyne

Question 4

4)British general who surrendered his army near Yorktown.

Answer 4

Charles Cornwallis

Question 5

5)British general whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord.

Answer 5

Thomas Cage

Question 6

6)An early American success that supplied artillery for the forces around Boston.

Answer 6

Fort Ticonderoga

Question 7

7)Virginian Patriot whose speeches supported the war.

Answer 7

Patrick Henry

Question 8

8)British general who took New York and Philadelphia but missed his main objective.

Answer 8

William Howe

Question 9

9)Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 9

Thomas Jefferson

Question 10

10)Englishman who wrote Common Sense to arouse support for independence.

Answer 10

Thomas Paine

Question 11

11)A costly victory outside of Boston.

Answer 11

Bunker hill

Question 12

12)Commander of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga.

Answer 12

Ethan Allen

Question 13

13)Commander in chief of the Continental army.

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

14)A successful winter raid that lifted the morale of the young Continental army.

Answer 14

Trenton

Question 15

15)An unsuccessful attempted to stop the British from taking Philadelphia.

Answer 15

Battle of Brandywine

Question 16

16)American ordnance chief who surprised the British by transporting heavy artillery to Boston.

Answer 16

Henry Knox

Question 17

17)overrated American commander who won at Saratoga but lost at Camden.

Answer 17

Horatio Gates

Question 18

18)The capture of a British army,which encouraged France to join the War.

Answer 18

Saratoga Campaign

Question 19

19)The Continental Army’s winter headquarters during the dark winter of 1777-78.

Answer 19

Valley Forge

Question 20

20)A draw that proved the new professionalism of the Continental army.

Answer 20

Battle of Monmouth

Question 21

21)American leader who was vital in winning the battles of Saratoga and Cowpens.

Answer 21

Daniel Morgan

Question 22

22)German drillmaster for the Continental army.

Answer 22

Baron Von Stuben

Question 23

23)American leader in the Northwest who captured Vincennes.

Answer 23

George Rogers Clark

Question 24

24)Patriot guerrilla called the “Swamp Fox”.

Answer 24

Francis Marion

Question 25

25)Resourceful American commander in the South know as the “Fighting Quaker” who kept the pressure on the British.

Answer 25

Nathanael Greene

Question 26

26)French aristocrat who helped to corner the British at Yorktown.

Answer 26

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 27

27)Action taken by Patriot in 1773,when British ships refused to talk their tea back to England.

Answer 27

Boston Tea Party

Question 28

28)Treaty that brought the War for Independence to an end.

Answer 28

The treaty of Paris

Question 29

29)Act that made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec.

Answer 29

Quebec Act

Question 30

30)Colonial militiamen ready to fight in a moment’s notice.

Answer 30

Minutemen

Question 31

31)A series of acts ,such as closing the port of Boston ,designed to punish and subjugate the troublesome colony.

Answer 31

Coercive Acts

Question 32

32)Document stating that the colonist must be autonomous/self-governing in nearly every aspect and have the right to raise militias to defend themselves.

Answer 32

Declaration of American Right

Question 33

33)Another term for Loyalists who were pro-British colonist.

Answer 33

Tories

Question 34

34)Alerted colonies of British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony.

Answer 34

Committee of Corespondence

Question 35

35)Act that granted East India Trading Company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in American.

Answer 35

Tea Acts of 1773

Question 36

36)A large group of Scot-Irish living in the back country of south central Harrisburg.

Answer 36

Paxton Boys

Question 37

37)Made a famous ride through the countryside of Massachusetts to alert of the impending British attack.

Answer 37

Paul Revere

Question 38

38)A group of rebels who opposed British rule and held rallies to protest the Stamp Act.

Answer 38

Sons of Liberty

Question 39

39)Fifty delegates gathered and adopted a formal statement of protest;they asserted the right of the colonies to self-govern.

Answer 39

First Continental Congress

Question 40

40)German Mercenaries.

Answer 40

Hessians

Question 41

41)Pamphlet that advocated independence from British.

Answer 41

Common sense

Question 42

42)Minor victory for the American troops,but good moral booster for them.

Answer 42

Princeton

Question 43

43)Professional full-time soldiers who made the military their career.

Answer 43

Regulars

Question 44

44)Violent group of protestors against Britain,who dominated the North Carolina back country.

Answer 44

Regulators

Question 45

45)Pro-British colonist

Answer 45

Loyalists

Question 46

46)Document pledging loyalty to the king and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament’s abusive exercise of power.

Answer 46

Olive Branch Petition

Question 47

47)Battle on a rolling meadows in which the British suffered 930 casualties and the American suffered only 70.

Answer 47

Battle of Cowpens

Question 48

48)Little crossroads in North Carolina.

Answer 48

Gulford Court House

Question 49

49)Cornwallis and his forces and Greene and his forced strived to reach to Dan River and cut off the other from their supply basses.

Answer 49

Race to Dan

Question 50

50)Battle in which Major Patrick Ferguson and 80% of his force were destroyed.

Answer 50

Battle of Kings Mountain

Question 51

51)The scene of British “humiliating defeat”

Answer 51

Yorktown

Question 52

52)Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to assembly the mantle of governance and appointed George Washington Commander and chief of the Continental Army.

Answer 52

Second Continental Congress

Question 53

53)Series of acts intended to punish the colonist and force them into submission,also known as the Coercive acts.

Answer 53

Intolerable Acts

Question 54

54)”Citizen soldiers”

Answer 54

Militia

Question 55

55)Local citizens boarded a British ship,remove its crew and burned the ship.

Answer 55

Gaspee incident

Question 56

56)Trading post that fell on the Wabash River in what is now Indiana.

Answer 56

Vincennes

Question 57

57)Area where Gates and Cornwallis stumbled upon each other in South Carolina.

Answer 57

Camden

Question 58

58)Colonist loyal to America.

Answer 58

Patriots

Question 59

59)The capture of an important American city,by the British,fallowing the Savannah.

Answer 59

Siege of Charleston

Question 60

60)Document listing the grievances that Americans had against the king and stated universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation.

Answer 60

Declaration of Independence

Question 61

61)After being defeated on land and sea the British troops lay down their arms and surrendered.

Answer 61

Surrender at Yorktown