The American revolution

Question 1

Cause

Answer 1

The reason why something happened.

Question 2

Course

Answer 2

Duration. Events that happened.

Question 3

Consequence

Answer 3

Result.

Question 4

Revolution

Answer 4

A forcible overthrow of a government.

Question 5

Colonist

Answer 5

A person who lives in a colony.

Question 6

13 colonies

Answer 6

The original states : Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.

Question 7

Governor

Answer 7

King or Queen’s representative in each colony.

Question 8

The population of the colonies grew because of

Answer 8

High birth rates, low death rates and immigration.

Question 9

The largest town in the 13 colonies was

Answer 9

Philadelphia.

Question 10

American Revolution

Answer 10

The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain.

Question 11

Causes of the American Revolution

Answer 11

The Navigation Acts, the Seven Years War and British debt, the Quartering Act, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre.

Question 12

The Navigation Acts

Answer 12

Laws that stated some American products, like sugar, cotton and tobacco, could only be sold through England.

Question 13

The Seven Years War and British debt

Answer 13

Combined effort of the British and Americans to defeat the French who had colonies in Canada and America. Britain insisted Americans must pay for the cost of the war and keeping British troops in America.

Question 14

The Quartering Act

Answer 14

Local towns and villages had to provide housing and food for any British soldiers based there.

Question 15

The Sugar Act

Answer 15

Tax on sugar imports.

Question 16

The Stamp Act

Answer 16

Americans had to have newspapers and legal documents stamped by a government official. They also had to pay for this.

Question 17

Sons of Liberty

Answer 17

A group of colonists who burned stamps and attacked stamp officials.

Question 18

No taxation without representation’

Answer 18

Colonists did not want to be taxed if they did not have a representative in Britain’s Parliament.

Question 19

The Boston Massacre

Answer 19

British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd of protestors and killed five Americans.

Question 20

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 20

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbour.

Question 21

Tarred and feathered

Answer 21

This happened to customs officials in Boston. Victims were smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment.

Question 22

Intolerable Acts

Answer 22

In response to Boston Tea Party. Included closing the Port of Boston.

Question 23

General Gage

Answer 23

British general who heard the Americans were storing weapons in Concord. He sent 800 British troops to destroy the weapons. This was the first conflict of the American Revolution.

Question 24

The Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 24

First major battle of the Revolution. Britain won. It showed that the Americans could hold their own, but the British were also not easy to defeat.

Question 25

Tom Paine

Answer 25

Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense that urged the colonists to separate from Great Britain.

Question 26

Common Sense

Answer 26

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation.

Question 27

The Continental Congress

Answer 27

A meeting of representatives of the British colonies.

Question 28

George Washington

Answer 28

Commander of the Continental Army.

Question 29

Declaration of Independence

Answer 29

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States a free state.

Question 30

The Battle of Long Island

Answer 30

A 1776 battle in New York in which more than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured.

Question 31

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 31

American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution.

Question 32

Three allies that joined the War on the American side

Answer 32

France, Spain and Holland.

Question 33

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 33

French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army.

Question 34

Valley Forge

Answer 34

Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778.

Question 35

Frederick von Steuben

Answer 35

German who trained the Continental Army in Valley Forge.

Question 36

Victory at Yorktown

Answer 36

Last big battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis, the British commander, was forced to surrender.

Question 37

The Treaty of Paris

Answer 37

1783. The British government finally recognised the independence of the United States of America.

Question 38

The American Constitution

Answer 38

Drawn up in 1787. This created a federal government structure with a central government in the capital that shared power with the states.

Question 39

Father of the Untied States

Answer 39

George Washington.

Question 40

Countries inspired by the American Revolution

Answer 40

France and Ireland.