Revolutionary War

Question 1

Militia

Answer 1

A small army made up of ordinary citizens.

Question 2

Rebel

Answer 2

Patriots

Question 3

Repeal

Answer 3

To take back, to cancel, a law

Question 4

Liberty

Answer 4

Freedom

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

Refusing to 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 were loyal to the king and opposed independence.

Question 7

Neutralists

Answer 7

American colonists who didn’t support any side (loyalist or patriots) in the fight for independence from Great Britain.

Question 8

Patriot

Answer 8

People from 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 their own country

Question 10

First continental congress

Answer 10

In September 1774, leaders from 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia to discuss the the problems with Great Britain. Because this meeting included almost all of the colonies on the North American continent, it was called the First Continental Congress.

Question 11

American revolution

Answer 11

An epic political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain’s North American colonies rejected its imperial rule.

Question 12

Battle of bunker hill

Answer 12

On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British were planning to send troops out from the city to fortify the unoccupied hills surrounding the city, which would give them control of Boston Harbor. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill.

Question 13

Boston tea party

Answer 13

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.[1] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. Protesters, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.