s.s ch5 Flashcards
who was the Commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington
What are 3 insulting term for a British soldier?
A Redcoat or a Lobsterback or a Bloodyback
What is the term for an American colonist who supported the King and who opposed independence?
A Loyalist or a Tory
Who was the author of the pamphlet “Common Sense”?
Thomas Paine
Name the radical Boston patriot who helped to found the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams
Name the war fought by the French and the British for control of North America?
The French and Indian War – also called The Seven Years War
What is the term for a volunteer, citizen army?
What was name of Boston’s citizen army?
a militia.
Boston’s militia was called the Minutemen.
What do we call products made or grown for sale to other countries?
Exports
This set of laws regulated trade between Britain and the American colonies
The Navigation Acts
This is the other term for a representative, like the men representing their colonies at the Continental Congresses
Delegate
The cannons captured from this upstate NY fort were used to free Boston from the British naval occupation
Fort Ticonderoga
What British laws closed the Port of Boston, banned the Massachusetts assembly, and placed soldiers in Boston homes?
The Intolerable Acts
How did colonists protest against the Stamp Act?
Boycotts and harassing tax collectors
What is the term for a small printed booklet, such as “Common Sense”?
A pamphlet
What was the first major tax placed by the British on the American colonies?
The Sugar Tax
What was the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?
To pay for the debts it had from the French and Indian War
We call them patriots, but the British call them ______ .
Traitors or rebels
The legislature (law making body) of Great Britain
Parliament
Clothing made by Daughters of Liberty to avoid having to buy imported British clothing
Homespun
He was King of England during the American Revolution
George III
This Son of Liberty and silversmith made an engraving of the Boston Massacre that was a good example of patriot propaganda
Paul Revere
These groups helped unite the colonies by writing letters and relaying information between them.
Committees of Correspondence
Why did American colonists believe that Britain had no right to tax them?
They had no representation in Parliament and, as British citizens, they believed that they had that right, guaranteed in the Magna Carta
This group brewed “Liberty Tea” in order to protest the Tea Act.
The Daughters of Liberty
A small printed booklet, like “Common Sense”
A pamphlet
The term for armed resistance to a government
A rebellion or a revolution
What is the term used in the Declaration of Independence for a cruel ruler who takes away the rights of the people?
Tyrant or Despot
both terms are used and they mean the same thing
These laws controlled what products could be imported into America, and to whom Americans could sell their raw materials.
the Navigation Acts
To refuse to buy goods as a way of protesting.
A boycott
A common form of intimidation/assault used by the Sons of Liberty to frighten tax collectors.
Tarring and feathering
This law placed a tax on legal documents, playing cards, and paper.
The Stamp Act
This word means too terrible to bear
Intolerable
The Intolerable Acts were placed on this American city to punish what protest?
Boston, to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
