US History - Chapter 10

Question 1

Money that people pay to help run the government

Answer 1

Tax

Question 2

Person chosen by the people to make decisions for them

Answer 2

Representative

Question 3

The cruel killing of many people at one time

Answer 3

Massacre

Question 4

American colonist who wanted America to be free from England’s rule

Answer 4

Patriots

Question 5

American colonists who remained loyal to England

Answer 5

Loyalists or Tories

Question 6

King of England at the time of America’s War for Independence

Answer 6

King George III

Question 7

The unfair tax law made on newspapers,certificates,and other important documents that greatly angered the colonists

Answer 7

Stamp Act

Question 8

A fight between angry colonists and British soldiers in which five colonists were killed

Answer 8

The Boston Massacre

Question 9

The black patriot killed during the Boston Massacre

Answer 9

Crispus Attucks

Question 10

A protest by American colonists who dumped over 300 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor

Answer 10

The Boston Tea Party

Question 11

A group of men who met before and during the War for Independence to decide what the colonies would do about England’s unfair treatment

Answer 11

Continental Congress

Question 12

Massachusett’s soldiers who said they could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice

Answer 12

Minutemen

Question 13

The young patriot who said “…as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Answer 13

Patrick Henry

Question 14

Two men who warned the colonists of a British attack. One of these men was a silversmith.

Answer 14

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 15

The towns in Massachusetts where the first battle of the War for Independence took place

Answer 15

Lexington and Concord

Question 16

Two nicknames for British soldiers

Answer 16

Red coats and lobster-backs

Question 17

At the second Continental Congress two important decisions were made. These decisions were?

Answer 17

1. America must have an organized army

2. George Washington would command this American army

Question 18

The battle where Americans showed the British that they would not easily be defeated.

Answer 18

The Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 19

The daring American soldier who led the Green Mountain boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.

Answer 19

Ethan Allen

Question 20

This document stated the reasons why American colonists wanted freedom from English rule.

Answer 20

The Declaration of Independence

Question 21

The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 21

Thomas Jefferson

Question 22

The president of the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 22

John Hancock

Question 23

The commander in chief of the colonial army; called “the Father of His Country”

Answer 23

George Washington

Question 24

The brave American spy who gave his life for his country; he was known for saying, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Answer 24

Nathan Hale

Question 25

The lady said to have stitched together the first American flag.

Answer 25

Betsy Ross

Question 26

The brave soldier who led his men to capture the British forts in the Northwest Territory for the colonists

Answer 26

George Rogers Clark

Question 27

The brave sea captain who was one of the first officers of the American navy. He greatly helped our first navy to be successful.

Answer 27

John Paul Jones

Question 28

The name of John Paul Jones’ ship

Answer 28

Bonhomme Richard

Question 29

The British ship captured by John Paul Jones

Answer 29

The Serapis

Question 30

The British general who surrendered to George Washington

Answer 30

General Lord Cornwallis

Question 31

The American general who fought the British in the Southern Colonies

Answer 31

General Nathanael Greene

Question 32

The battle in New Jersey where George Washington and his army surprised the Hessians and captured their supplies on Christmas Day

Answer 32

The battle of Trenton

Question 33

The battle in New York that is known as the turning point of the War for Independence

Answer 33

Battle of Saratoga

Question 34

George Washington’s army (The Continental Army ) spent a terrible winter here in this valley

Answer 34

Valley Forge

Question 35

Part of the land given to the Americans by the British in the Treaty of Paris.

Answer 35

The Northwest Territory

Question 36

The agreement which ended the War for Independence and gave the colonies their independence from England

Answer 36

The Treaty of Paris

Question 37

The date the Declaration of Independence was signed

Answer 37

July 4, 1776

Question 38

The place where the British surrendered at the end of the war

Answer 38

Yorktown

Question 39

How many years did the War for Independence last?

Answer 39

6

Question 40

When the British asked this famous sea captain to surrender, he replied, “I have not yet begun to fight!”

Answer 40

John Paul Jones

Question 41

Who are remembered for the midnight ride proclaiming the words “the British are coming! The British are coming!”

Answer 41

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 42

In his famous speech before the battle of New York, this man stated “We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die.”

Answer 42

George Washington