Unit 4: Revolutionary War

Question 1

representation

Answer 1

serving as a spokesman for an individual or a group of people

Question 2

taxation

Answer 2

being required to pay fees or dues to support a government

Question 3

thesis

Answer 3

the main point of your argument

Question 4

rights

Answer 4

the belief you should be treated with respect and fairness

Question 5

acts

Answer 5

laws passed by the British that affected the colonists

Question 6

patriots

Answer 6

Colonists who favored the war against Britain

Question 7

French and Indian War

Answer 7

war between England and France, both sides aided by Native Americans, that led to the end of French power in North America

Question 8

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 8

proposal by Benjamin Franklin to have one government for all 13 colonies

Question 9

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 9

law forbidding English colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 10

Stamp Act

Answer 10

an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice

Question 11

boycott

Answer 11

Refusal to buy certain goods and services

Question 12

Tea Act

Answer 12

Law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists at a lower cost

Question 13

Boston Tea Party

Answer 13

Protest in which colonists dressed as Indians dumped British tea into Boston harbor

Question 14

Intolerable Acts

Answer 14

laws passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party that closed Boston Harbor, restricted town meetings, and required even private citizens to lodge British soldiers

Question 15

First Continental Congress

Answer 15

Delegates from 12 /13 colonies that met in Philadelphia that met to discuss grievances with England

Question 16

minutemen

Answer 16

Colonial militia volunteers who were prepared to fight a minute’s notice

Question 17

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 17

First battles of the Revolutionary War; “the shot heard ‘round the world”

Question 18

Continental Army

Answer 18

Army established by the Second Continental Congress to fight the British

Question 19

loyalists

Answer 19

Colonists who remained loyal to Britain

Question 20

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 20

First major battle of the Revolutionary War; proved that Americans could fight bravely and that the British would be hard to beat

Question 21

mercenaries

Answer 21

soldiers who fight merely for pay, often for a foreign country

Question 22

Common Sense

Answer 22

essay by Thomas Paine that urged colonies to declare independence

Question 23

Declaration of Independence

Answer 23

document stating that the 13 English colonies were a free and independent nation

Question 24

natural rights

Answer 24

rights that belong to all people from birth: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Question 25

Battle of Trenton

Answer 25

battle where George Washington’s troops captured a Hessian encampment in a surprise attack

Question 26

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 26

First major American victory in the Revolution which led British threat to New England

Question 27

Valley Forge

Answer 27

Site of George Washington’s Continental Army winter encampment

Question 28

guerilla

Answer 28

soldier who uses hit and run tactics

Question 29

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 29

Final battle in the Revolution; an American victory that caused the British to surrender

Question 30

Treaty of Paris

Answer 30

Peace treaty that marked the end of the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation