The RTR S3

Question 0

Militia

Answer 0

Group of citizen soldiers

Question 1

1 Continental Congress

Answer 1

A political body to represent American interests and challenge British control

Question 2

Who were the political leaders that attended the CC?

Answer 2

Massachussetts-Samuel and John Adams
New York-John Jay
Virginia-Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, GW

Question 3

Minutemen

Answer 3

In training session companies-said ‘will be ready to fight on minutes notice’

Question 4

Sir Thomas Gage

Answer 4

Sent with a thousand British soldiers to around Boston

Question 5

Concord

Answer 5

A city about 20 miles northwest of Boston

Question 6

What happened at Lexington and Concord?

Answer 6

British-wanted to eliminate supplies
Paul Revere and William Dawes are notified and send for Minutemen
Americans are smaller in numbers and lose
Leads to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The Concord Hymn’

Question 7

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 7

William Prescott-American
Militiamen set up camp at Bunker Hill and British keep attacking it
Americans run out of gunpowder and lose

Question 8

Loyalists

Answer 8

Loyal to the king-with the British (some because office holders, lived in isolation, or thought Britain would win
TORIES

Question 9

Patriots

Answer 9

Americans fighting for independence