US History

Question 1

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 1

British general who surrendered to the Americans in the final battle of the American revolution

Question 2

Minutemen 

Answer 2

Companies of civilian soldiers, who posted they were ready to fight on a minutes notice 

Question 3

 Valley Forge

Answer 3

Site near Philadelphia, where Washington’s troops spent a bitter winter in 1777-1778

Question 4

Quartering act 

Answer 4

Required colonist to shelter British troops 

Question 5

 Patriots

Answer 5

American colonist who supported independence 

Question 6

Molly pitcher 

Answer 6

Carried water to troops during battle 

Question 7

 Loyalist

Answer 7

American colonist who supported Britain and oppose the war for independence 

Question 8

Battle of Saratoga 

Answer 8

Victory that brought French alliance

Question 9

Committee of correspondence 

Answer 9

Committee organized, and each colony to communicate with, and unify the colonies 

Question 10

Guerrilla warfare 

Answer 10

Hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war

Question 11

Intolerable acts

Answer 11

 Intimate combination of the coercive and the quebec acts

Question 12

Boston tea party 

Answer 12

American act of resistance, when colonist dressed as Indians dumped chests of tea overboard 

Question 13

Treaty of Paris 

Answer 13

Agreement that ended the American revolution 

Question 14

Declaration of independence

Answer 14

Document declaring that the colonies were now the United States of America

Question 15

Nathan hale

Answer 15

American spy caught in hand by the British “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country “

Question 16

Articles of confederation

Answer 16

A plan for a loose union of states, under the authority of a weak central government 

Question 17

Northwest ordinance

Answer 17

Law that provided the basis for governing most of the western territory 

Question 18

Virginia plan

Answer 18

Plan that propose a bicameral house based on population 

Question 19

New Jersey plan

Answer 19

Planned that proposed a unicameral house with equal representation 

Question 20

Great compromise

Answer 20

Plan that called for each date to have two senators with house members based on population 

Question 21

3/5 compromise

Answer 21

Every five enslaved people in a state with count as three free persons 

Question 22

Federalist

Answer 22

Someone who supports ratification of the constitution

Question 23

Anti-federalist

Answer 23

Someone who opposes ratification of the constitution

Question 24

War hawks

Answer 24

someone who favors war or continuing to escalate an existing conflict as opposed to other solutions.

Question 25

Alien

Answer 25

A person living in the country, who is not a citizen of that country

Question 26

Sedition

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Incitement to rebellion

Question 27

Nullification

Answer 27

Theory that states have the right to declare a federal law in

Question 28

Impressment

Answer 28

I kind of legalize kidnapping in which people are forced into military service 

Question 29

Francis Scott key

Answer 29

Attorney who wrote the Star Spangled Banner (only the words because it is originally a poem…according to Brittany)

Question 30

Jays treaty

Answer 30

 Treaty in which Britain retained the right to seize cargoes bound for France ports while giving America most favored nation status

Question 31

Pickney’s treaty

Answer 31

 Treaty also known as treaty of San Lorenzo, it granted, the US the right to navigate the Mississippi river park on the

Question 32

William Clark 

Answer 32

Led the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the western half of the US (known at the time as the Louisiana Purchase)