Chapter 6

Question 1

American negotiator of Treaty of Paris and member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

Answer 1

John Adams

Question 2

American soldier who committed treason by agreeing to hand over a fort to the British

Answer 2

Benedict Arnold

Question 3

British general who surrendered his army near Saratoga

Answer 3

John Burgoyne

Question 4

British General who surrendered his army near Yorktown

Answer 4

Charles Cornwallis

Question 5

British General whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord

Answer 5

Thomas Gage

Question 6

An early American success that supplied artillery for the forces around Boston

Answer 6

Fort Ticonderoga

Question 7

Virginian patriot whose speeches supported the war

Answer 7

Patrick Henry

Question 8

British General who took New York and Philadelphia but missed his main objective

Answer 8

William Howe

Question 9

Primary author of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 9

Thomas Jefferson

Question 10

Englishman who wrote common sense to arouse support for independence

Answer 10

Thomas Paine

Question 11

A costly victory outside of Boston

Answer 11

Bunker hill

Question 12

Commander of the green mountain boys who captured fort Ticonderoga

Answer 12

Ethan Allen

Question 13

Commander in chief of the continental army

Answer 13

George Washington

Question 14

A successful winter raid that lifted the morale of the young continental army

Answer 14

Trenton

Question 15

An unsuccessful attempt to stop the British from taking Philadelphia

Answer 15

Battle of brandywine

Question 16

American ordnance chief who surprised the British by transporting heavy artillery to Boston

Answer 16

Henry Knox

Question 17

Overrated American commander who won at Saratoga but lost at Camden

Answer 17

Horatio Gates

Question 18

The capture of a British army which encouraged France to join the war

Answer 18

Saratoga campaign

Question 19

The continental army’s winter headquarters during the dark winter of 1777-78

Answer 19

Valley forge

Question 20

A draw that proved the new professionalism of the continental army

Answer 20

Battle of Monmouth

Question 21

American leader who was vital in winning the battles of Saratoga and cowpens

Answer 21

Daniel Morgan

Question 22

German drill master for the continental army

Answer 22

Baron Von Steuben

Question 23

American leader in the northwest who captured Vincennes

Answer 23

George Roger Clark

Question 24

Patriot guerrilla called the “Swamp Fox”

Answer 24

Francis Marion

Question 25

Resourceful American commander in the south known as the "Fighting Quaker" who kept the pressure on the British

Answer 25

Nathaniel Greene

Question 26

French aristocrat who helped to corner the British at Yorktown

Answer 26

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 27

Action taken by patriots in 1773, when British ships refused to take their tea back to England

Answer 27

Boston tea party

Question 28

Treaty that brought the war for independence to an end

Answer 28

Treaty of Paris

Question 29

Act that made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Quebec

Answer 29

Quebec act

Question 30

Colonial militiamen ready to fight in a moment's notice

Answer 30

Minutemen

Question 31

A series of acts such as closing the port of Boston designed to punish and subjugate the troublesome colony

Answer 31

Coercive acts

Question 32

Document stating that the colonist must be autonomous/self-governing in nearly every aspect and have the right to raise militias to defend themselves

Answer 32

Declaration of American rights

Question 33

Another term for loyalists who were pro-British colonist

Answer 33

Tories

Question 34

Alerted colonies of British threats to liberty to other areas of the colony

Answer 34

Committee of correspondence

Question 35

Act that granted east India trading company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in America

Answer 35

Tea act of 1773

Question 36

A large group of Scot-Irish living in the back country of south central Harrisburg

Answer 36

Paxton boys

Question 37

Made a famous ride through the countryside of Massachusetts to alert of the impending British attack

Answer 37

Paul revere

Question 38

A group of rebels who opposed British rule and held rallies to protest the stamp act

Answer 38

Sons of Liberty

Question 39

Fifty delegates gathered and adopted a formal statement of protest; they asserted the right of the colonies to self-govern

Answer 39

First continental congress

Question 40

German mercenaries

Answer 40

Hessians

Question 41

Pamphlet that advocated independence from Britain

Answer 41

Common Sense

Question 42

Minor victory for the American troops but good moral booster for them

Answer 42

Princeton

Question 43

Professional full-time soldiers who made the military their careers

Answer 43

Regulars

Question 44

Violent group of protestors against Britain who dominated the North Carolina back country

Answer 44

Regulators

Question 45

Pro-British colonists

Answer 45

Loyalists

Question 46

Document pledging loyalty to the king and requested his intervention in curbing Parliament's abusive exercise of power

Answer 46

Olive branch petition

Question 47

Battle on a rolling meadows in which the British suffered 930 casualties and the American suffered only 70

Answer 47

Battle of cowpens

Question 48

Little crossroads in North Carolina

Answer 48

Guilford courthouse

Question 49

Cornwallis and his forces and Greene and his forced strived to reach to Dan River and cut off the other from their supply basses

Answer 49

Race of the Dan

Question 50

Battle in which major Patrick Ferguson and 80% of his force were destroyed

Answer 50

Battle of Kings mountain

Question 51

The scene of British "humiliating defeat"

Answer 51

Yorktown

Question 52

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to assemble the mantle of governance and appointed George Washington commander and chief of the continental army

Answer 52

Second continental congress

Question 53

Series of acts intended to punish the colonist and force them into submission, also known as the coercive acts

Answer 53

Intolerable acts

Question 54

"Citizen soldiers"

Answer 54

Militia

Question 55

Local citizens boarded a British ship removed its crew and burned the ship

Answer 55

Gaspee incident

Question 56

Trading post that fell on the wabash River in what is now Indiana

Answer 56

Vincennes

Question 57

Area where Gates and Cornwallis stumbled upon each other in South Carolina

Answer 57

Camden

Question 58

Colonists loyal to America

Answer 58

Patriots

Question 59

The capture of an important American city by the British following the Savannah

Answer 59

Siege of Charlestown

Question 60

Document listing the grievances that Americans had against the king ad stated universal principles that would shape the character and direction of the emerging nation

Answer 60

Declaration of Independence

Question 61

After being defeated on land and sea, the British troops lay down their arms and surrendered

Answer 61

Surrender at Yorktown