Social studies chapter 4 - grade 9

Question 1

Stamp act

Answer 1

March 1765

Question 1

Sons of liberty

Answer 1

resistance group led by Samuel Adams

Question 2

Declaratory act

Answer 2

March 1766

Question 3

Townshend acts

Answer 3

By Charles Townshend in 1767. tax on imports.

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

March 5, 1770, in a customs house.

Question 5

Committees of correspondence

Answer 5

To communicate with other colonists.

Question 6

Boston Tea party

Answer 6

December 16, 1773

Question 7

Intolerable acts

Answer 7

1774. includes the quartering acts.

Question 8

General Gage

Answer 8

commander in chief of British forces.

Question 9

Minutemen

Answer 9

colonist civilian soldiers

Question 10

Joseph Warren

Answer 10

resentence leader when Hancock and Adams were hiding.

Question 11

Paul Revere

Answer 11

Sent to warn Hancock and Adams in Lexington.

Question 12

Battle of Lexington

Answer 12

April 19, 1775.

Question 13

continental army

Answer 13

led by George Washington

Question 14

battle of bunker hill

Answer 14

June 17, 1777. loss for the British, but won. Deadliest battle in the war.

Question 15

olive branch petition.

Answer 15

July 8, 1775. to return peace, the king rejected it.

Question 16

common sense

Answer 16

Thomas Paine, urged the colonists to fight for independence.

Question 17

Declaration of Independence.

Answer 17

written by Thomas Jefferson. voted on July 2, 1776.

Question 18

Quakers

Answer 18

supported colonists but didn’t believe in war

Question 19

Hessians

Answer 19

German soldiers from Hesse.

Question 20

battle of Trenton

Answer 20

Washington led a surprise attack on the drunk Hessians. on Christmas night 1776

Question 21

Burgoyne

Answer 21

surrendered in Saratoga in oct-18, 1777.

Question 22

France’s Alliance with America

Answer 22

Feb 1778

Question 23

Valley Forge

Answer 23

a camp where Washington’s troops stayed in 1777.

Question 24

Profiteering

Answer 24

selling scarce goods for profit.

Question 25

Friedrich von steuben

Answer 25

Helped Washington’s forces.

Question 26

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 26

french who joined Washington’s staff.

Question 27

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 27

French and American troops surround Cornwallis. British surrenders. 1781

Question 28

British surrenders in Yorktown

Answer 28

oct 17, 1781. General O’Hara comes instead of Cornwallis.

Question 29

Treaty of Paris

Answer 29

Sep 1783

Question 30

belief in equality

Answer 30

Egalitarianism

Question 31

General William Howe

Answer 31

commander of B troops landing in NY

Question 32

Treaty of Paris American representatives.

Answer 32

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay.

Question 33

voluntarily freeing of slaves.

Answer 33

manumission