Flash Cards

Question 1

Who first the Commander of the Continental Army

Answer 1

George Washington

Question 2

What is an insulting term for a British soldier?

Answer 2

A Redcoat or a Lobsterback or a Bloodyback

Question 3

What is the term for an American colonist who supported the King and who opposed independence?

Answer 3

A Loyalist or a Tory

Question 4

Who was the author of the pamphlet “Common Sense”?

Answer 4

Thomas Paine

Question 5

Name the radical Boston patriot who helped to found the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 5

Samuel Adams

Question 6

Name the war fought by the French and the British for control of North America?

Answer 6

The French and Indian War – also called The Seven Years War

Question 7

What is the term for a volunteer, citizen army?

What was name of Boston’s citizen army?

Answer 7

What is a militia?

Boston’s militia was called the Minutemen.

Question 8

What do we call products made or grown for sale to other countries?

Answer 8

Exports

Question 9

This set of laws regulated trade between Britain and the American colonies

Answer 9

The Navigation Acts

Question 10

This is the other term for a representative, like the men representing their colonies at the Continental Congresses

Answer 10

Delegate

Question 11

The cannons captured from this upstate NY fort were used to free Boston from the British naval occupation

Answer 11

Fort Ticonderoga

Question 12

What was the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?

Answer 12

The Intolerable Acts

Question 13

How did colonists protest against the Stamp Act?

Answer 13

Boycotts and harassing tax collectors

Question 14

What is the term for a small printed booklet, such as “Common Sense”?

Answer 14

A pamphlet

Question 15

What was the first major tax placed by the British on the American colonies?

Answer 15

The Sugar Tax

Question 16

What was the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?

Answer 16

To pay for the debts it had from the French and Indian War

Question 17

We call them patriots, but the British call them ______ .

Answer 17

Traitors or rebels

Question 18

The legislature (law making body) of Great Britain

Answer 18

Parliament

Question 19

Clothing made by Daughters of Liberty to avoid having to buy imported British clothing

Answer 19

Homespun

Question 20

He was King of England during the American Revolution

Answer 20

George III

Question 21

This Son of Liberty and silversmith made an engraving of the Boston Massacre that was a good example of patriot propaganda

Answer 21

Paul Revere

Question 22

These groups helped unite the colonies by writing letters and relaying information between them.

Answer 22

Committees of Correspondance

Question 23

Why did American colonists believe that Britain had no right to tax them?

Answer 23

They had no representation in Parliament and, as British citizens, they believed that they had that right, guaranteed in the Magna Carta

Question 24

This group brewed “Liberty Tea” in order to protest the Tea Act.

Answer 24

The Daughters of Liberty

Question 25

A small printed booklet, like “Common Sense”

Answer 25

A pamphlet

Question 26

The term for armed resistance to a government

Answer 26

A rebellion or a revolution?

Question 27

What is the term used in the Declaration of Independence for a cruel ruler who takes away the rights of the people?

Answer 27

Tyrant or Despot

Question 28

These laws controlled what products could be imported into America, and to whom Americans could sell their raw materials.

Answer 28

Navigation act

Question 29

To refuse to buy goods as a way of protesting.

Answer 29

A boycott

Question 30

A common form of intimidation/assault used by the Sons of Liberty to frighten tax collectors.

Answer 30

Tarring and feathering

Question 31

This law placed a tax on legal documents, playing cards, and paper.

Answer 31

The Stamp Act?

Question 32

This word means too terrible to bear

Answer 32

Intolerable

Question 33

The Intolerable Acts were placed on this American city to punish what protest?

Answer 33

Boston, to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

Question 34

This term means to agree to or to allow - the people have to give their _____ in order to be taxed.

Answer 34

Consent

Question 35

This is presenting only one side of a story in order to persuade people to support a cause

Answer 35

Propaganda

Question 36

This document gave customs officers the authority to search homes and businesses for smuggled goods

Answer 36

Writ of assistance

Question 37

This act of vandalism by Minutemen disguised as Mohawk Indians led to the Intolerable Acts

Answer 37

The Boston Tea Party

Question 38

He argued that it was against nature for a large country to be ruled by a small country - so America should be free of Britain.

Answer 38

Thomas Paine

Question 39

This group of representatives from most colonies met to decide how to respond to the Intolerable Acts

Answer 39

The First Continental Congress

Question 40

This group sent the Olive Branch Petition and appointed George Washing ton head of the Continental Army

Answer 40

The First Continental Congress

Question 41

This group sent the Olive Branch Petition and appointed George Washing ton head of the Continental Army

Answer 41

The Second Continental Congress

Question 42

The “Shot Heard Round the World” was fired here

Answer 42

The Battle of Lexington and Concord | on Lexington Bridge

Question 43

Colonists argued that Writs of Assistance and the Quartering Act violated this right that they had as British citizens

Answer 43

The right of privacy

Question 44

This British law required colonists to house and feed British soldiers in several American cities, including Boston

Answer 44

The Quartering Act

Question 45

This unpopular and widely ignored British law prohibited colonists from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 45

The Proclamation of 1763

Question 46

A formal complaint – like those in the 3rd section of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 46

a grievance

Question 47

This term means that rights cannot be taken away.

Answer 47

Unalienable

Question 48

This part of the Declaration of Independence contains the basic rights of all men.

Answer 48

Statement of Beliefs and Values

Question 49

This future President wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 49

Thomas Jefferson

Question 50

According to the Declaration of Independence, these are the unalienable rights of all men

Answer 50

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Question 51

Under what conditions do a people have the right to rebel and replace their government?

Answer 51

If the government fails to protect the people’s natural rights (or violates the people’s rights)

Question 52

According to the Declaration of Independence, why are certain rights unalienable?

Answer 52

Because they are “natural rights” – they come from the Creator