Key people terms

Question 0

Parliament

Answer 0

British government that made all the laws

Question 1

Hessians

Answer 1

German soldiers that fought for Britian

Question 2

Sam Adams

Answer 2

Founder of Sons Of Liberty
Patriot
Didn’t fight but stayed strong on what he believed in.

Question 3

Paul Revere

Answer 3

Rose to Lexington and Concord to warn everyone that the British were coming

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Thomas Jefferson

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Wrote Declaration of Independence. Sang it too

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William Prescott

Answer 5

American colonel in Revolutionary War who commanded the rebel forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill

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Benjamin Franklin

Answer 6

Apart from being in the continental congress, he invented a lot of things

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Charles Cornwallis

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British officer who lost the battle of Yorktown and is now a prisoner of war

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John Burgoyne

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British officer who wanted to take over New York but failed and ended up in the battle of Saratoga but he surrendered and is now prisoner of war.

Question 9

William Howe

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British officer who was going to take over New York but ditched his buddy Burgoyne and decided to attack Philadelphia instead and took it over

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John Adams

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Supporter of independence really loud

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote Common Sense, political activist

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George Washington

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Head of the Continental Army America’s first president

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John Hancock

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First assignment Declaration of Independence. richest person in Boston. Pres. of the second Continental Congress

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Patrick Henry

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Apart of the first continental congress and he said the famous line “ I am not a Virginian, I am an American.”

Question 15

Horatio Gates

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Tired from this soldier who would listen to the Continental Army and was granted a general. argued with Benedict Arnold a lot

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Benedict Arnold

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American general who switch sides to the British

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King George III

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King of England during Revolutionary war

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King Louis XIV

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King of France during the Revolutionary war

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Molly Pitchers

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Woman who carried water to men during battle to drink and cool down cannons

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Joseph Plumb Martin

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Young, 16, when in listed into Continental Army.

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Francis “Swamp Fox” Marison

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He would attack British soldiers at night and have tiny battles then out run them into the forest

Question 22

Huron

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French allies during French Indian War

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Iroquois

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British allies during French Indian War

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Rebel/Patriot

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People who want to break apart from Britain, who want to be a independent country

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Loyalist/Tory

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Someone who wants to stay with Britain and does not want to be independent. They are also those whose remained loyal to England and King George

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Fence-sitter

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Someone who was undecided if he/she wanted to be loyal towards the king, or if they wanted to be independent

Question 27

Sons of Liberty

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Formed to protect the right of the colonists and to fight the abuses of taxation by the Parliament (a.k.a. The British government)

Question 28

James Armistead

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American spy who was Cornwallis’ servant. He wrote letters back to the America s

Question 29

Henry Clinton

Answer 29

British officer during the revolutionary war