Revolutionary War

Question 1

(Vocab)

What does govern mean?

Answer 1

To rule or be in charge

Question 2

(Vocab)

What is Parliament?

Answer 2

A group of people that make laws

Question 3

(Vocab)

What does legal authority mean?

Answer 3

Ability to make or change the laws

Question 4

(Vocab)

What does taxation without representation mean?

Answer 4

Making people pay for taxes without letting them make decisions about the laws

Question 5

(Vocab)

What is liberty?

Answer 5

freedom

Question 6

(Vocab)

What does neutral mean?

Answer 6

A person who doesn’t take sides

Question 7

(Vocab)

What does surrender mean?

Answer 7

To give up (usually in a battle or war)

Question 8

What did the colonists and British Parliament disagree about?

Answer 8

How the colonies should be governed

Question 9

What group believed they had legal authority in the colonies? (the right to make laws)

Answer 9

Both Great Britain (British Parliament)
and the colonists (local assemblies)

(uh oh! Both of them can’t be in charge!)

Question 10

Parliament believed it had the right to ________ the colonies.

Answer 10

tax

Question 11

Why didn’t the colonists think they should be taxed?

Answer 11

They didn’t have representation in Parliament.

Question 12

What is another name for England?

Answer 12

Great Britain

Question 13

Who wrote the document called the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 13

Thomas Jefferson

Question 14

The Declaration of Independence states that the authority to govern belongs to whom?

Answer 14

The people

NOT the king!

Question 15

The Declaration of Independence states that all people are created ______.

Answer 15

equal

Question 16

The Declaration of Independence states that all people have the right to what three things?

Answer 16

Life, liberty, and the

pursuit of happiness

Question 17

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 17

To explain why the colonies were breaking away from England

Question 18

Who provided military leadership by serving as commander- in- chief of the Continental Army?

Answer 18

George Washington

Question 19

Who provided political leadership by expressing the reasons for colonial independence from Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 19

Thomas Jefferson

Question 20

Revolutionary War Unit

Who inspired patriots from other colonies when he spoke out against taxation without representation?

Answer 20

Patrick Henry

Question 21

Who gave the famous “give me liberty or give me death” speech?

Answer 21

Patrick Henry

Question 22

What was the name of the first land battle of the American Revolution that was fought in Virginia?

Answer 22

Battle of Great Bridge

Question 23

The American victory of the Battle of Great Bridge forced the British colonial governor to flee (leave) the city of _________.

Answer 23

Norfolk

Question 24

Who won the Battle of Great Bridge?

Answer 24

Americans

patriots/colonists

Question 25

What group of people served in the Continental Army and fought for independence?

Answer 25

patriots

Question 26

What were the Virginians called who did not take sides during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 26

neutral

Question 27

What group of people remained loyal (faithful) to Great Britain during the war?

Answer 27

Loyalists

Question 28

What group of people took on more responsibility to support the war effort?

Answer 28

women

Question 29

What group of people fought for a better chance of freedom?

Answer 29

enslaved African Americans

Question 30

Why did some free African Americans fight?

Answer 30

To get independence from Great Britain

Question 31

What role did American Indians play during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 31

They fought alongside both the Virginia patriots and the British.

Question 32

Who was the enslaved African American from Virginia who served in the Continental Army and successfully requested his freedom after the war?

Answer 32

James Lafayette

Question 33

Who rode on horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville?

Answer 33

Jack Jouett

Question 34

Who warned Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him and members of the assembly?

Answer 34

Jack Jouett

Question 35

Which battle resulted in the surrender of the British army and led to the end of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 35

Yorktown

Question 36

Who won the Battle of Yorktown?

Answer 36

Americans | patriots/colonists

Question 37

Where did the capital move the second time?

Answer 37

Richmond

Question 38

List the three reasons the capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

Answer 38

``` - The population was moving westward - Richmond was a more central location - It increased the distance from attack by the British ```