Chapter 8 vocab

Question 1

mercenary

Answer 1

a professional soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay

Question 2

indictment

Answer 2

a formal written accusation charging someone with a crime

Question 3

When was pontiac’s rebellion?

Answer 3

1763-1764

Question 4

when did the sugar and stamp act controversies take place?

Answer 4

1764-1765

Question 5

when was the declaratory act passed? and what did they repeal when they passed it?

Answer 5

1766, they repealed the stamp act

Question 6

what did the declaratory act state?

Answer 6

that G.B. could govern the colonies and tell them what to do and shit

Question 7

when were the townshend acts passed?

Answer 7

1767

Question 8

when was the boston massacre?

Answer 8

in 1770

Question 9

when were the committees of correspondence formed and was their purpose?

Answer 9

formed in 1772, were a means of coordinating action against great britain

Question 10

when was the boston tea party?

Answer 10

1773

Question 11

when were the intolerable acts passed?

Answer 11

1774

Question 12

when did lexington and concord take place?

Answer 12

1775

Question 13

when was the declaration of independence signed?

Answer 13

1776

Question 14

when were the british defeated at saratoga?

Answer 14

1777

Question 15

when was the battle of yorktown?

Answer 15

1781

Question 16

when was peace signed in paris?

Answer 16

1783

Question 17

what did Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold do in 1775?

Answer 17

they captured fort ticonderoga and crown point, gaining a priceless store of gunpowder and artillery

Question 18

when was the olive branch petition sent to King George the III and how did he react?

Answer 18

it was sent in 1775, and he ignored it

Question 19

explain the bold stroke for canada that narrowly missed success

Answer 19

General Richard Montgomery pushed up the lake Champlain route and captured Montreal, then he was joined at Quebec with the army of General Benedict Arnold

Question 20

what happened at the assault on quebec?

Answer 20

Montgomery was killed, and Benedict Arnold was shot in the leg, Arnold’s troops retreated up the St. Lawrence River

Question 21

in what year did the british set fire to norfolk?

Answer 21

1776

Question 22

when was boston evacuated?

Answer 22

in march, 1776 after the british set fire to Norfolk

Question 23

in the south, what victories were won by the colonists in 1776?

Answer 23

Moore’s Creek bridge in north carolina against loyalists and the other in an invading british fleet in charlestown harbor