Revolutionary War

Question 1

Boycotts

Answer 1

The refusal to purchase or comply to a good.

Question 2

Causes – French and Indian War

Answer 2

Both the British and the French said they owned the Ohio country, both European countries used Native American claims to the land,
,British colonists feared the control of a pope in North America (France’s land was controlled by the French and the Roman Catholic Church). The Protestant British settlers saw this as a threat to their religious freedoms that they had under English law.

Question 3

Sons of Liberty

Answer 3

The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.

Question 4

Smuggling

Answer 4

The way the colonists ignored the various British restrictions in manufacturing.

Question 5

Stamp Act

Answer 5

Taxes on all paper products in the colonies in 1756 but repealed in 1766 due to colonial outrage.

Question 6

Townshend Duties

Answer 6

Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain.

Question 7

Intolerable Acts

Answer 7

Were the American Patriots’ term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.

Question 8

Quartering Act

Answer 8

Name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

Question 9

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 9

Issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain’s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 10

Lexington and Concord

Answer 10

The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

Question 11

Bunker hill

Answer 11

The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.

Question 12

Saratoga

Answer 12

climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Question 13

Yorktown

Answer 13

A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.

Question 14

Principles of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

That all men are equal under God, that everyone has the right to the pursuit of happiness, and that governments are instituted among men.

Question 15

George Washington

Answer 15

Union general who won the war of freedom for the U.S. and was then elected as the first president for 2 terms.

Question 16

Patriots vs. loyalists

Answer 16

Patriots were against King George and saw his cruelty, while loyalists were true to their king and saw the rebellion as pointless.

Question 17

Hessians

Answer 17

18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for military service by the British government, who found it easier to borrow money to pay for their service than to recruit its own soldiers. They took their name from the German state of Hesse.