Unit 3

Question 1

Stamp Act

Answer 1

Law passed by Parliment to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspaper

Question 2

Samuel Adam’s

Answer 2

One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty

Question 3

Townsend Acts

Answer 3

Laws passed by Parliment in 1767 that sets taxes on imports to the colonies

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

Conflict between colonists and British soilders in which five colonists were killed

Question 5

Committed of correspondence

Answer 5

A network of communication set up in MAssachusetts and Virginia other colonies of ways that Britain threestened colonial rights

Question 6

Boston Tea Party

Answer 6

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonist dumped
British tea into Boston Harbor

Question 7

King George III

Answer 7

King of England during AMericna Revolution

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

A series of laws set up by Parliemtn to punish Massachusetts foe its protests again set the British

Question 9

Intolerable Acts

Answer 9

A series of laws set up by Parliemtn to punish Massachusetts foe its protests again set the British

Question 10

Martial LAw

Answer 10

Rule by the military

Question 11

Minutemen

Answer 11

Civilian SOilders

Question 12

Second Continental Congress

Answer 12

The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independance

Question 13

Olive Branch Petetion

Answer 13

An offer of peace sent by the Second Contineteal Congress to King George III

Question 14

Common Sense

Answer 14

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy

Question 15

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 15

Main author of the Declaration of Independance

Question 16

Declaration of Independence

Answer 16

Document that said the United States was an independent nation

Question 17

Patriots

Answer 17

Colonists who wanted independance from Britain

Question 18

Loyalist

Answer 18

Colonist who were loyal to Britain

Question 19

Trenton

Answer 19

Battle won by the AMericans in 1776

Question 20

Saratoga

Answer 20

Battle won by the Americans in 1777; turning point of the Revoluation

Question 21

Valley Forge

Answer 21

Place where Washington’s army spent the winter of 1776-1778

Question 22

Inflation

Answer 22

Rice in the price of goods

Question 23

Profiteering

Answer 23

Selling Goods that are difficult to come by for a profit

Question 24

Fredrick von Steuben

Answer 24

Prussian officer who helped train American Soliders

Question 25

Marquis do Lafayette

Answer 25

French noble who helped the Americans

Question 26

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 26

British General

Question 27

Yorktown

Answer 27

Battle that gave Americans victory in the war

Question 28

Treaty of Paris

Answer 28

Treaty that officially ended the war

Question 29

Egalitarianism

Answer 29

A belief in equality