Chap 66

Question 1

Gaspee

Answer 1

British customs ship that ran aground in Rhode Island and was subsequently burned.

Question 2

Comitee of Correspondence

Answer 2

Provided information on British threats to liberty and established a model of intercolonial cooperation.

Question 3

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 3

Gave a tea monopoly to the British East India Company.

Question 4

Boston Tea party

Answer 4

8 November 1773: Three ships including the Dartmouth had their tea destroyed

Question 5

Loyalists

Answer 5

Brit lovers

Question 6

Coercive Acts

Answer 6

Four acts to punish Massachuts with harbor closure, removal of govorning/judicial rights, and quartering.

Question 7

Paxton Boys

Answer 7

Pennsylvania Scots-Irish who killed innocent Indians

Question 8

Regulators

Answer 8

North Carolina rebels who wanted to overthrow the colonial govornment

Question 9

Intolerable Acts

Answer 9

Nickname for the Coercive Acts

Question 10

Quebec Act

Answer 10

Established too much territory, politics, and Roman Catholothism

Question 11

First Continental Congress

Answer 11

Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to declare the rights of the colonies while maintaining their loyalty

Question 12

Minutemen

Answer 12

A unit of Millitia

Question 13

Patrick Henry

Answer 13

Said to give him liberty or death at the Virginia Convention

Question 14

Militia

Answer 14

Citizen Soldiers

Question 15

Regulars

Answer 15

Professional Soldiers

Question 16

Paul Revere

Answer 16

Warned colonists that the British were advancing to Lexington

Question 17

Lexington and Concord

Answer 17

The first battle of the Revolutionary War on April 19th 1775 that was won by the Americans and put the British in Boston. Instigated by the British seizing armaments in Boston.

Question 18

Patriots

Answer 18

Brit haters

Question 19

Tories

Answer 19

Nickname for Brit lovers

Question 20

Hessians

Answer 20

British Hired Germans

Question 21

Second Continental Congress

Answer 21

Established George Washington, one of the delegates, as commander in Chief

Question 22

Fort Ticonderoga

Answer 22

Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

It was Benedict Arnolds idea.

Question 23

Ethan Allen

Answer 23

Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

Question 24

George Washington

Answer 24

Forty-three year old Virginia veteran and delegate

Question 25

Bunker Hill

Answer 25

Battle on Breed's Hill where the Americans ran out of ammunition and retreated but the British lost more people

Question 26

Breed's Hill

Answer 26

The actual hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill took place

Question 27

Henry Knox

Answer 27

Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

Question 28

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 28

Petition of the Olive Branch

Question 29

Common Sense

Answer 29

Written by Thomas Paine. Anti Brit, anti Monarchy

Question 30

Thomas Paine

Answer 30

Wrote Common Sense

Question 31

John Adams

Answer 31

One of the authors of the declaration of independence

Question 32

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 32

The author of the declaration of independance

Question 33

Declaration of Independance

Answer 33

Approved on Jully 2-4 1776. Declared Brit hatred.

Question 34

William Howe

Answer 34

The replacement for General Thomas Gage

Question 35

Trenton

Answer 35

Where George Washington landed

Question 36

Princeton

Answer 36

Where he went after he landed

Question 37

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 37

Turning point because France joined and 6k Brits elliminated

Question 38

Benedict Arnold

Answer 38

Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox. He plotted to turn over West Point Fort on the Hudson river to the British.

Question 39

Valley Forge

Answer 39

Location where the American army suffered while waiting for France This is where Baron Freidrich Von Stueben was sygnificant in training.

Question 40

Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

Answer 40

German Drillmaster associated with the Battle of Monmouth

Question 41

Molly Pitcher

Answer 41

Nickname for Mary Hays at the Battle of Monmouth

Question 42

George Rogers Clark

Answer 42

Reduced Indian attacks and aided in laying claim to northwestern territory while defeating the Brits

Question 43

siege of Charleston

Answer 43

Worst defeat of the War under General Benjamin Lincoln

Question 44

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 44

Defeated General Benjamin Lincoln at the siege of Charleston

Question 45

Francis Marion

Answer 45

The Swamp Fox, annoyed Brits in the south

Question 46

Battle of Kings Mountian

Answer 46

Patriot Victory of Tennessee Vigilantes against Cornwallis sent Patrick Furgeson

Question 47

Nathaniel Greene

Answer 47

George Washington's replacement

Question 48

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 48

Fought against Cornwallis at Yorktown Helped by Admiral de Grasse

Question 49

Yorktown

Answer 49

The British were defeated by being surrounded by French and American troops

Question 50

Treaty of Paris

Answer 50

3 September 1783 acknowledge that the colonies were independant