key people Unit 1

Question 1

Thomas Paine

Answer 1

wrote common sense as a translation for the olive branch petition

Question 2

King George III

Answer 2

nickname the mad king and ended salutary neglect by enforcing tax laws in America. He started the need and want for revolution.

Question 3

Pochahontas

Answer 3

• Pocahontas rescue John Smith after father was trying to kill him
  - After John Smith returns home, The English cannot Pocahontas and use her as a pawn to get more land
• Pocahontas Matt calling is John Rolfe in captivity and decided to marry him
• John Rolfe asked for permission from his superiors and they said yes as long as Pocahontas will convert to Christianity.

Question 4

John smith

Answer 4

 -led men to Jamestown, Virginia
-almost killed by Pocahontas’ dad
-one of the governors of Virginia Colony/Jamestown

Question 5

Ferdinand and isabella the I

Answer 5

catholic monarchs of spain that sponsor colombus on his journey

Question 6

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 6

The guy after Columbus to officially declared that the Americas was a separate continent and piece of land than India.

Question 7

Lizabeth the I

Answer 7

Leg the first English colonists to settle along the East Coast of the Americas establishing Jamestown and the rest of the colonies to come

Question 8

John white

Answer 8

Led people to roanoke

Question 9

john winthrop

Answer 9

English Puritan lawyer that organized the migration of Puritans from England to Massachusetts. Developed an independent government free from English influence and created city on a hill.

Question 10

John Adams

Answer 10

was at the first continental Congress, the second US president, married to Abigail Williams, liked how men were in charge

Question 11

Abigail Adams

Answer 11

she was a colonial woman married to John Adams I am basically the very first American feminist

Question 12

Thomas Preston

Answer 12

The commander that was involved in the Boston massacre and was trialled for murder because he apparently told his men fire even though he didn’t

Question 13

George Washington

Answer 13

Who was the first president of the United States and attended the first and second continental Congress. He was chosen to lead the continental army at the second continental Congress and he was from Virginia not New England.

Question 14

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 14

he was the third President of the United States and he was appointed to write the first draft of the declaration of independence in 1776

Question 15

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 15

The founding father of the United States, successfully contacted the British parliament to remove the stamp tax by explaining the colonists were supposed internal taxes Putin challenge the British government right to tax trade. created the system of state and national government, Attended the first continental congress an appointment Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration of independence

Question 16

Benedict Arnold

Answer 16

he was an American traitor by spying for the British during the revolution after taking bribes. He was an American hero at Saratoga and after the war his family was granted a royal pension and given Land in in Canada.

Question 17

Pontiac (king)

Answer 17

he organized a revolt against the British to
1. and European influence and control
2. Expel settlers from frontier america

• British forts at Niagara in Detroit or attacked and in response to the British attack native communities and distribute blankets infected with smallpox which the outcome becomes an uneasy truce.
  

Question 18

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 18

Who is the British officer that led the battle of Yorktown which failed and he was the highest rank of British soldier

Question 19

king louis xvi (16)

Answer 19

He was the king of France and did not believe in individual rights or freedom from a monarchy. He helped Americans during revolution to hopefully get some land they lost from the French Indian war. It was eventually beheaded by the French people for his tyranny. he also did not believe in the declaration of independence.

Question 20

king henry the viii

Answer 20

form the Anglican church after the pope‘s refusal to grant him ambulant on his marriage of Catherine of Aragon he was married 6 times, wanted daughters and blamed his wives for daughters.

Question 21

hessians

Answer 21

German soldiers that the British higher during the revolutionary war, they are tired these people because the troops were station all around the world

Question 22

Loyalists

Answer 22

People who are loyal to the British crown

Question 23

Patriots

Answer 23

People who love their

Question 24

Proprietary

Answer 24

Relating to an owner or ownership

Question 25

Conquistador

Answer 25

Which means he who conquers which were Spanish man who converted in Concord the natives in new Spain

Question 26

Minutemen

Answer 26

Soldiers who would be available for duty at any moment’s notice in the assembled in New England

Question 27

Indentured servants

Answer 27

Poor european to agree to work for master for 47 years in exchange to free passage to the New World. They had no legal rights were little, many were treated as slaves. Many died from disease before being released in the horrific treatment of indentured servants in Virginia eventually made recruiting them difficult which led to slavery.