Vocabulary
What does the words representatives mean.
What is: people who serve as agents.
What effect were the new Americans hoping for by sending John Adams to France?
What is: For Adams to convince France to help the Americans
What did Johnny and his father assume was the cause of the flash of light?
What is enemy fire.
The men and women were ready to _____ upon the ship at dawn.
What is: embark
What does the word cramped mean?
What is: crowded
Which primary source helps makes the text more realistic and believable?
What is: John Adams's diary
What caused four crew members to get hurt?
What is: the ship was hit by lightening.
The Colonists were fighting for their independence from the ____ .
What is: the British
What does the word distracted mean?
What is: to have your attention drawn away.
What was the cause of Johnny's illness?
What is: he was seasick.
"The Wind blowing against the current...produced a tumbling Sea." Is this quote from the text an of a resource, primary source, mast, revolution?
What is: a primary source
He should ___ the land before he decides to build a home on it.
What is: survey
What does viewpoint mean?
What is: your opinion, or a place in which something can be seen.
"Our Powder and balls were placed by the Guns," Johhny's father wrote in his diary. The author most likely used a primary source to describe this moment in the passage because...
What is: a real, firsthand account of what it was like be in a war
Johnny and the sailor were _____ when they were looking at the Portuguese man-of-war.
What is: excited
What does the word shattered mean?
What is: to break.
After Johnny and his father retreated to their cabin, what caused the ship to roll around on the ocean's waves?
What is: a storm.
Why was Captain Tucker angry about John Adams coming on deck when the Boston was attacked by a British merchantman?
What is: he didn't want John to get injured.
When John Adams and his son could finally see the coast of Europe, that meant their ship had arrived in ___.
What is: France