History Chapter 8

Question 1

Patriots

Answer 1

People who supported independence

Question 2

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 2

first major battle of the Revolutionary War; took place on Breed’s Hill; Americans lost

Question 3

Blockade

Answer 3

shutting off of a port by ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Question 4

Thomas Paine

Answer 4

Wrote Common Sense

Question 5

John Hancock

Answer 5

President of the Continental Congress

Question 6

Col. William Prescott

Answer 6

led American troops at Bunker Hill, said, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Question 7

Declaration of independents

Answer 7

Document that declared the 13 colonies to be free

Question 8

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 8

sent to king George III asking him to repeal the Intolerable Acts

Question 9

Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys

Answer 9

took Fort Ticonderoga in the name of the great Jehovah and the continental congress

Question 10

Revolutionary War

Answer 10

War for American independents from Britain

Question 11

Richard Henry Lee

Answer 11

Said, “ these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states.”

Question 12

Nathan Hale

Answer 12

Spy who was caught and hung by British

Question 13

Valley Forge

Answer 13

Place east of Philidelphia where Washington and his army suffered through the long, cold winter of 1777-1778

Question 14

Cavalry

Answer 14

Troops on horseback

Question 15

Neutral

Answer 15

Don’t fight for either side

Question 16

John Paul Jones

Answer 16

American sea captain who fought the British in the North Sea

Question 17

General Cornwallis

Answer 17

British general who surrendered to Washington

Question 18

Yorktown

Answer 18

place in Virginia where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington

Question 19

Benedict Arnold

Answer 19

American general who was a traitor

Question 20

Molly Pitcher

Answer 20

Carried pitchers of water to soldiers

Question 21

What are the basic rights set out in the Declaration of Independents

Answer 21

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 22

Francis Marion

Answer 22

Known as the Swamp Fox

Question 23

Ratify

Answer 23

Approve

Question 24

After the Revolutionary War, what was the western boundary of the U.S.

Answer 24

Mississippi River

Question 25

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 25

Frenchman who helped the Americans win the Revolutionary War

Question 26

2nd Continental Congress

Answer 26

met in 1774 and named George Washington commander in chief of the Continental Army

Question 27

Betsy Ross

Answer 27

Seamstress of Philadelphia who was asked by Washington to sew the first American flag