Section 1
What was the meeting that, in response to the mounting crisis, all the colonies except Georgia sent representatives to a meeting in October 1774 and was a gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America?
First Continental Congress
Who was the patriot that, along with Paul Revere, set off on horseback through two different routes out of Boston to warn Patriots at Lexington and Concord of British attack?
William Dawes
What did the Second Continental Congress authorize the Massachusetts militia to become? This force would soon include soldiers from all colonies and would carry out the fight against Britain.
Continental Army
When was the pamphlet Common Sense distributed in Philadelphia?
January 1776
Who did Thomas Jefferson argue had violated the colonists’ rights by taxing them without their consent and had broken the social contract?
King George III
What was the list of 10 resolutions to be presented to King George III drafted by the delegates and included was the colonists’ right to “life, liberty, and property."?
Declaration of Rights
local militia soldiers who got their name because they were ready to fight at a minute’s notice
Minutemen
Who was the Virginian that the Second Continental Congress appoint to command the Continental Army?
George Washington
Who was the author of Common Sense, a pamphlet that reached a wide audience by writing as a common person speaking to common people and changed the way many colonists viewed their king?
Thomas Paine
When did the Continental Congress approve the Declaration of Independence? This act broke all ties to the British crown and the United States of America was born.
July 4, 1776
Who returned from the Congress and reported to his fellow Virginians and to encourage them to support the Patriot cause, he voiced these famous words: “They tell us, Sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when will we be stronger? Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace. I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”?
Patrick Henry
Who was one of the riders that, along with Paul Revere and William Dawes, a free African American that rode north to New Hampshire and Maine to gather reinforcements?
Wentworth Cheswell
Desperate for supplies, who did leaders in Boston send along with a force of 400 men to New York State? Their objective was to attack the British at Fort Ticonderoga. In May 1775, the man they sent captured the fort and its large supply of weapons.
Benedict Arnold
How many copies of Common Sense were sold throughout the colonies?
500,000
What were Colonists who chose to side with the British known as?
Loyalists
What were colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain called?
Patriots
Which Patriot captain yelled to his troops, “Don’t fire unless fired upon.” at the Battle at Lexington?
John Parker
What was the conflict that started at Breed's Hill where the colonial forces had quietly dug in at Breed’s Hill, a point overlooking north Boston? When the British advanced, colonial troops were ordered not to fire “until you see the whites of their eyes.” The British troops had to retreat 2 times, and on their 3rd return they finally won because colonists' ammunition was depleted and the colonists had to retreat. While the Patriots lost, they proved they could take on the Redcoats. For the British, the battle was a tragic victory.
Battle of Bunker Hill
When did the Second Continental Congress begin writing a document declaring independence?
June 1776
Because of persecution by Patriots, how many Loyalists fled the colonies during the Revolution?
50,000
Who was the loyalist governor of Massachusetts that learned that a stockpile of weapons was stored in Concord, about 20 miles from Boston, and in April 1775 he decided to seize the supplies?
Thomas Gage
Which battle ended in minutes with only a few volleys fired and when the smoke cleared, 8 of the badly outnumbered minutemen lay dead, and 10 were wounded? Afterward the British, with only one soldier wounded, marched on to Concord.
The Battle at Lexington
Which colonel was assigned to transport the captured cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston? He successfully brought the heavy guns over 300 miles of rough terrain in the middle of winter. When this colonel delivered the cannons, Washington was ready to regain control of Boston.
Henry Knox
What was the Latin motto that a committee included in a seal for the new country and recognized the new union of states? It translated to, “out of many, one.”
E pluribus unum
Which delegate’s wife tried to influence her husband, John, to include women’s rights in the Declaration? In a failed effort, she expressed her concerns: “Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands . . . If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are and will not hold ourselves bound by Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Abigail Adams
Who was the Sons of Liberty Member that, along with William Dawes, set off on horseback through two different routes out of Boston to warn Patriots at Lexington and Concord of British attack?
Paul Revere
What did colonial marksmen call British soldiers because the British military uniform, with its bright red jacket, make the British soldiers an easy target
Redcoats
Who was the British general that when on March 4, 1776, Washington moved his army to Dorchester Heights, an area that overlooked Boston from the south, he knew he would have to retreat? “The Rebels have done more in one night than my whole army could do in months,” this general declared. On March 7 he retreated from Boston to Canada.
William Howe
What document announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain? In doing so, it expressed three main ideas. First, it argued that all people possess unalienable rights, or rights that are a natural part of being born and cannot be taken away. Second, it listed the complaints of the colonists. Third, it stated that the colonies had the right to break from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
In July 1776 what was legal in all the colonies and conflict over this ensued long after the Revolution?
Slavery
Who did Paul Revere enlist the aid of and instructed him to climb into the steeple of the Old North Church and watch for British soldiers? If the British advanced across land, this man would display one lantern from the steeple. If they rowed across the Charles River, this man would display two lanterns.
Robert Newman
What happened when King George III had refused to address the concerns listed in the Declaration of Rights and in May 1775, delegates from 12 colonies met again in Philadelphia?
Second Continental Congress
What was the 47-page pamphlet that was distributed in Philadelphia in January 1776 and was published anonymously? The author, Thomas Paine, argued that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.
Common Sense
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and was a slaveholder?
Thomas Jefferson
By the 1780s which colonies were taking steps to end slavery?
New England