The War for Independence - Chapter 4

Question 1

Law passed by Parliament to make colonists by a tamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers

Answer 1

Stamp Act

Question 2

One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty

Answer 2

Samuel Adams

Question 3

Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies

Answer 3

Townshend Acts

Question 4

Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed

Answer 4

Boston Massacre

Question 5

A network of communication set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights

Answer 5

Committees of Correspondence

Question 6

Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor

Answer 6

Boston Tea Party

Question 7

King of England during the American revolution

Answer 7

King George III

Question 8

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British

Answer 8

Intolerable Acts

Question 9

Rule by the military

Answer 9

Martial law

Question 10

Civilian soldiers

Answer 10

Minutemen

Question 11

The meeting of the colonies delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence

Answer 11

Second Continental Congress

Question 12

An offer of sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III

Answer 12

Olive Branch Petition

Question 13

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy

Answer 13

Common Sense

Question 14

Document that said that the United States was an independent nation

Answer 14

Declaration of Independence

Question 15

Colonists who wanted independence from Britain

Answer 15

Patriots

Question 16

Colonists who were loyal to Britain

Answer 16

Loyalists

Question 17

Battle won by the Americans in 1776

Answer 17

Trenton

Question 18

Battle won by the Americans in 1777

Answer 18

Saratoga

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Valley Forge

Question 20

Ruse in the price of goods

Answer 20

Inflation

Question 21

Selling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit

Answer 21

Profiteering

Question 22

Prussian officer who helped train American soldiers

Answer 22

Friederich von Steuben

Question 23

French noble who helped the Americans

Answer 23

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 24

British general

Answer 24

Charles Cornwallis

Question 25

Battle that gave Americans victory in the war

Answer 25

Yorktown

Question 26

Treaty that officially ended the war

Answer 26

Treaty of Paris

Question 27

A belief in equality

Answer 27

Egalitarianism