Exam 1, Section 3 & 4

Question 1

Repeal

Answer 1

To cancel an act or law

Question 2

Boycott

Answer 2

To refuse to buy items from a particular country

Question 3

Sons of Liberty

Answer 3

Protected the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government; founded by John Hancock and Samuel Adams

Question 4

Samuel Adams

Answer 4

The Massachusetts radical leader that revived the Boston committee of correspondence; founded the Sons of Liberty

Question 5

Duty

Answer 5

A moral or legal responsibility

Question 6

Parliament

Answer 6

The highest legislature

Question 7

John Adams

Answer 7

The first Vice President; successful lawyer

Question 8

The First Continental Congress

Answer 8

Represented American interests and challenge British control; most important decision was to start a militia

Question 9

Minutemen

Answer 9

Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minute’s notice

Question 10

George Washington

Answer 10

1st U.S. president; commander in chief of the Continental Army; helped win American Revolution by keeping his army together through the winter at Valley Forge and by winning the battle at Yorktown

Question 11

King George III

Answer 11

King of England

Question 12

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 12

Member of the second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence; American statesman, inventor, and scientist, signed the D.O.I., the treaty with Great Britain, and the US constitution

Question 13

Shot heard round the world

Answer 13

The first British soldier killed in Lexington in Concord

Question 14

Paul Revere

Answer 14

Warned people that the British were coming

Question 15

Thomas Paine

Answer 15

Convinced many people that America should be independent by writing the Common Sense pamphlet

Question 16

Continental Army

Answer 16

An army by the Continental Congress to fight for independence lead by George Washington

Question 17

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 17

A petition sent by the Continental Congress to King George III that asked the king to protect the colonists’ rights that Parliament destroyed

Question 18

Second Continental Congress

Answer 18

Creates the continental army to fight in a more organized way than the colonial militias could

Question 19

Common Sense

Answer 19

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that convinced thousands of colonists that we should be independent

Question 20

Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

A document declaring the US to be independent of Great Britain, signed by the representatives of the American people

Question 21

Natural Rights

Answer 21

According to John Locke, the natural rights are life, liberty, property
According to Thomas Jefferson, the natural rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 22

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 22

Played a key role in leadership during the American Revolution, was the principal drafter of the D.O.I.

Question 23

Patriot

Answer 23

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won

Question 24

Loyalists

Answer 24

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

Question 25

Valley Forge

Answer 25

Where Washington and the Continental Army settled for the harsh Winter

Question 26

John Paul Jones

Answer 26

A daring American naval officer raided British ports. When his ship was badly damaged, he said “I have not begun to fight” making him a naval hero to the American patriots

Question 27

Yorktown, Virginia

Answer 27

Where the British surrendered to the Americans in the Revolutionary War

Question 28

Treaty of Paris

Answer 28

When Great Britain recognized the United States as a new and independent nation

Question 29

Saratoga, New York

Answer 29

The first major American victory in the war

Question 30

John Hancock

Answer 30

Member of the Continental Congress, the first signer of the D.O.I

Question 31

John Locke

Answer 31

Made the natural rights and believed that government was legitiment only as long as people people continued to consent to it

Question 32

Impressment

Answer 32

Forcing people into naval service

Question 33

Tyranny

Answer 33

The abuse of power