3/21/22 chap test

Question 1

Blockade-

Answer 1

is the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.

Question 2

Mercenary

Answer 2

troops for hire, from germany to help fight the colonists

Question 3

is a person who betrays his or her country

Answer 3

Traitor

Question 4

introduction followed by 3 main parts

Answer 4

Preamble

Question 5

rights that belong to all people from birth

Answer 5

Natural rights

Question 6

Unalienable rights

Answer 6

the rights to be free and to choose how to live- cannot be taken away by governments

Question 7

(was from virginia) he introduced a resolution that said, “these United States are, and of right ought to be free and independent states

Answer 7

Richard Henry Lee-

Question 8

(massachusetts) - lawyer

Answer 8

John Adams

Question 9

pennsylvania) - inventor and journalist

Answer 9

Ben Franklin

Question 10

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 10

(Virginia) - tobacco planter

Question 11

Philip Livingston

Answer 11

(Ny) wealthy landowner

Question 12

Roger Sherman

Answer 12

(connecticut) - shoe maker

Question 13

1st signer of Declaration of Independence, and he was president of the 2nd Continental Congress

Answer 13

John Hancock

Question 14

Nathan Hale

Answer 14

teacher from Connecticut, he was a spy and later hanged. His last words, “i only regret that i have but one life to lose for my country”

Question 15

Aka Washington crosses the Delaware

Answer 15

Trenton

Question 16

“The TURNING POINT in the War”

Answer 16

Saratoga

Question 17

troops on horseback

Answer 17

Cavalry

Question 18

Guerilla

Answer 18

hit and run

Question 19

Siege

Answer 19

occurs when an army surrounds running low

Question 20

Ratify

Answer 20

approved

Question 21

Ex. Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chicksaw. Americans take Vincennes (present day Indiana) from the British in 1778. They were led by George Rogers Clark.

Answer 21

George Rogers Clark

Question 22

• commanded the “Bonhomme Richard”.

Answer 22

John Paul Jones

Question 23

Privateer

Answer 23

independently owned merchant ships that became war ships and were then equipped with weapons.

Question 24

The Americans go on to win princeton too, by tricking General Cornwallis, into thinking the Americsns were still at Trenton, and they snuck up on princeton

Answer 24

Cornwallis

Question 25

Nathanael Greene

Answer 25

replaces General gates as Commander of the military in the south

Question 26

Francis Marion-

Answer 26

“Swamp Fox”

Question 27

Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

Answer 27

• February 1776. Patriots defeat the Loyalists. Moore’s Creek Bridge is near Wilmington, NC

Question 28

Fraunces Tavern

Answer 28

Fraunces Tavern- Washington bid farewell to his troops at “Fraunces Tavern” in NYC on Wall Street

Question 29

Treaty of Paris

Answer 29

between the United States and Great Britain.

Question 30

wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense”.

Answer 30

Thomas Paine

Question 31

Gen. Burgoyne

Answer 31

has a strategy to cut off New England first from the rest of the Colonies

Question 32

The French arrive too late to help, Washington and his men spend a long, cold Winter watching the British at Philadelphia. (1777-1778)

Answer 32

Valley Forge

Question 33

Von Steuben

Answer 33

Germany decides to help and sends Von Steuben - trained the American soldiers in how to use the bayonet.

Question 34

helped the Americans build forts.

Answer 34

Pulaski and Kosciusko

Question 35

They sent General Lafayettee to train the American troops.

Answer 35

Lafayette

Question 36

List and explain 4 advantages the British had during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 36

They had a powerful navy
They had many generals
They had money to hire mercenaries
They had the support of the loyalists

Question 37

b. List and explain 4 advantages the Americans had during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 37

They were fighting on their own land
They had general george washington
They developed a navy under john paul jones
They didn’t have to transport their supplies

Question 38

Who won?

Lexington-

Answer 38

British

Question 39

Who won?

Concord

Answer 39

Americans

Question 40

Who won?

Saratoga

Answer 40

Americans

Question 41

Who won?

Trenton

Answer 41

Americans

Question 42

Who won?

Yorktown

Answer 42

Americans