Rev war

Question 1

Militia

Answer 1

A small army made up of ordinary citizens.

Question 2

Rebel

Answer 2

A patriot.

Question 3

Repeal

Answer 3

To take back, or to cancel, a law.

Question 4

Liberty

Answer 4

Fighting for your freedom.

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

To not wanna do something.

Question 6

Loyalist

Answer 6

People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to remain under the control of the king and Great Britain. Loyalist forces were loyal to the king and opposed independence.

Question 7

Neutralists

Answer 7

American colonists who did not support either side (Loyalists or Patriot) i the fight for independence from Great Britain.

Question 8

Patriots

Answer 8

People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to break away from Great Britain. Such people favored independence for the colonies.

Question 9

Traitor

Answer 9

A person guilty of acting against his or her own country.

Question 10

First continental congress

Answer 10

Patriots ask king George for them not to fight.

Question 11

American Revolution

Answer 11

Many of the Africans on the slave ships had never seen white skin before, some thought that the white men would boil and eat them.

Question 12

Battle of bunker Hill

Answer 12

First battle where the patriots show that they could win it.

Question 13

Boston Tea party

Answer 13

People throw tea over the ship and that the tea cost a lot of money to get and they drink tea everyday.

Question 14

Committees of correspondence

Answer 14

Committees of correspondence were emergency’ provisional government set up in the 13 colonies in response to Britain policies leading up to Revolutionary war.

Question 15

Townshend Acts

Answer 15

Townshend Act was basically Taxes on paint.

Question 16

Intolerable Acts

Answer 16

British closed down the harbor.

Question 17

Sons of liberty

Answer 17

Group of guys who fought against the redcoats.

Question 18

Town meeting

Answer 18

The meeting was to discuss the war.

Question 19

Stamp act

Answer 19

Parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies.

Question 20

Minuteman

Answer 20

Gage ordered detachments of British troops into rural Massachusetts with specific orders to confiscate supplies of gunpowder.

Question 21

Assembly

Answer 21

The Assembly surrendered under heavy fire.

Question 22

Delegate

Answer 22

Image courtesy of liberty of congress Despite only serving one year in the continental congress, Virginia Delegate Patrick Henry’s instrumental to its success.