Unit 4: Road to Revolution

Question 1

Townshend Acts

Answer 1

laws calling for a tax on imported goods

Question 2

Tariff

Answer 2

a tax on imported goods

Question 3

Stamp Act

Answer 3

law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies

Question 4

Repeal

Answer 4

to cancel

Question 5

Patriot

Answer 5

a colonist who opposed British rule

Question 6

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 6

important revolutionary battle that took place on Breed’s Hill

Question 7

Tea Act

Answer 7

law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

Question 9

Sons of Liberty

Answer 9

group that lead protests against the new Stamp Act tax

Question 10

militia

Answer 10

a volunteer army

Question 11

Parliament

Answer 11

Britain’s law-making assembly

Question 12

minutemen

Answer 12

militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minute’s notice

Question 13

American Revolution

Answer 13

a war Americans fought for Independence

Question 14

Boston Tea Party

Answer 14

when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

Question 15

Boycott

Answer 15

refuse to buy goods

Question 16

Boston Massacre

Answer 16

the killing of five men in Boston by panicked British soldiers

Question 17

Committee of Correspondence

Answer 17

communication system to share information between the colonies about local events

Question 18

Intolerable Acts

Answer 18

laws that punished colonist for dumping tea into the Boston Harbor

Question 19

Loyalist

Answer 19

colonists who remained loyal to King George and the British government

Question 20

First Continental Congress

Answer 20

Representatives from each colony but Georgia met to to vote on what actions should be taken against the British and their taxes.

Question 21

Daughters of Liberty

Answer 21

Women who supported the boycott of imported goods by making tea from herbs and berries and by weaving cloth

Question 22

Second Continental Congress

Answer 22

second meeting of American leaders who made decisions for the colonies and formed a Continental Army

Question 23

Continental Army

Answer 23

an army with soldiers from all 13 colonies; formed by the Second Continental Congress

Question 24

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 24

a petition from Congress to King George III that asked for more freedom for the colonists to govern themselves.

Question 25

Declaration of Independence

Answer 25

a document stating why the colonists wanted independence

Question 26

Traitor

Answer 26

a person who works against his or her country

Question 27

Green Mountain Boys

Answer 27

Patriot soldiers from Vermont, lead by Ethan Allen

Question 28

Mercenary

Answer 28

a soldier from one country paid to fight for another country

Question 29

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 29

a battle fought between the Americans and the British; turning point of the American Revolution

Question 30

Treaty of Paris

Answer 30

the treaty that officially ended the American Revolution; Great Britain recognized the United States of America as an independent nation.