Vocabulary Set 1 - Before The Revolutionary War

Question 1

Abigail Adams

Answer 1

strongly supported the independence
movement and also advocated for
women's rights and the abolition of
slavery. wrote a letter to her husband
telling him to "remember the ladies and be
more generous and favorable to them" as
he worked with others to create the
Declaration of Independence

Question 2

Appalachian

Mountains

Answer 2

The oldest mountains in North America.
They begin in Canada and run through the
eastern United States from Maine to
Alabama. These mountains marked the
edge of westward expansion. In 1763, the
British Parliament passed a proclamation
stating that colonists could not settle west
of these mountains.

Question 3

Boston Massacre

Answer 3

When the smoke settled, five colonists
were dead and seven were wounded.
Samuel Adams, a colonial leader, wrote an
exaggerated account of the event. He
called it the Boston Massacre. It fueled
anti-British feelings in the colonies and led
to the American Revolution

Question 4

Boston Tea Party

Answer 4

December 16, 1773, a group of colonists,
including Samuel Adams and other
members of the Sons of Liberty, dressed
as Native Americans and boarded one of
the tea ships. The group threw more than
300 crates of tea overboard into Boston
Harbor.

Question 5

boycott

Answer 5

refuse to purchase, sell, or use goods and
services provided by those regarded as
behaving unfairly.

Question 6

Crispus Attucks

Answer 6

an African American, was the first of
several people who died in the event that
became known as the Boston Massacre.
He is considered the first American martyr
of the American Revolution.

Question 7

House of

Burgesses

Answer 7

a legislative assembly created in the British
colony of Virginia. It was established in
Jamestown in 1619. It was the first
representative government in what later
became the United States and was the first
elected body in any British colony. This
signified the colonists’ belief that they had
the same rights to self-government as if they
had stayed in England.

Question 8

King George

III

Answer 8

King of England during the American

Revolution

Question 9

mercantilism

Answer 9

the theory that a country should sell more
goods to other countries than it buys.
the idea that a country gains power by
building up its supply of gold and silver

Question 10

monarch

Answer 10

A government ruled by a king or queen

Question 11

nobility

Answer 11

A high-ranking social class, upper class, the

elites

Question 12

No taxations
without
representation

Answer 12

Britain’s law-making assembly. The US uses

the term Congress instead of this term

Question 13

Parliament

Answer 13

Britain’s law-making assembly. The US uses

the term Congress instead of this term

Question 14

Pontiac’s

Rebellion

Answer 14

In 1763, Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe
launched a rebellion against the British
living in the Ohio River Valley. In response
Parliament passed the Proclamation of 1763.
This law said that American colonists
should not migrate into this territory,
because it was reserved for Native
Americans.

Question 15

Great Britain

Answer 15

mother country of the 13 colonies

Question 16

Proclamation

of 1763

Answer 16

British declaration that forbade colonists

from settling west of the Appalachians

Question 17

French and Indian War

Answer 17

a war in North America between France and

Britain (both aided by Indian tribes)