Module 4

Question 1

Samuel Adams

Answer 1

American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Question 2

Committees of correspondence

Answer 2

committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws

Question 3

Stamp act of 1765

Answer 3

a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents

Question 4

Mercy Otis Warren

Answer 4

a writer from Massachusetts who opposed the Stamp Act and wrote anti-British plays.

Question 5

Boston Massacre

Answer 5

an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people

Question 6

Tea act

Answer 6

a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

Question 7

Boston tea party

Answer 7

a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

Question 8

Intolerable acts

Answer 8

laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies

Question 9

Quartering Act

Answer 9

One of the Coercive or Intolerable Acts that helped fan the flames of revolution in the English colonies. It required each colonist to provide a place in their home, or quarter, for British soldiers.

Question 10

First Continental Congress

Answer 10

a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government; delegates petitioned King George III, listing the freedoms they believed colonists should enjoy.

Question 11

Patriots

Answer 11

American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.

Question 12

Minutemen

Answer 12

American colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute’s notice.

Question 13

Redcoats

Answer 13

British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms.

Question 14

Second continental congress

Answer 14

a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord.

Question 15

Continental Army

Answer 15

the army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defend the American colonies from Britain.

Question 16

George Washington

Answer 16

Revolutionary War hero and Patriot leader, he served as a representative to the Continental Congresses, commanded the Continental Army, and was unanimously elected to two terms as president of the United States.

Question 17

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 17

a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army.