Unit 2 American Revolution

Question 1

Revolution

Answer 1

A fight to change the government

Question 2

Tax

Answer 2

a required payment to a local, state, or national government

Question 3

Stamp Act

Answer 3

Tax on paper goods

Question 4

Loyalist

Answer 4

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence

Question 5

Patroit

Answer 5

American colonist who favored American independence

Question 6

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 6

The turning point of the American Revolution. France decided to help the Americans.

Question 7

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 7

Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.

Question 8

Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 8

Treaty Between England and the Colonies , formally ended the American Revolutionary War

Question 9

Boston Tea Party

Answer 9

protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor

Question 10

Declaration of Independence

Answer 10

the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain