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Define loyalist
A person living in the colonies that did not support the American cause and remained loyal to Great Britain
Who defeated the French and gained new land in the French and Indian War?
Britain
What was the name of the pamphlet that convinced many American reader to separate from England?
Common Sense
What are you when you are breaking the rules on purpose
defiant
What is a patriot
a person who supported the cause of the colonists during the American Revolution
What is a soldier from one country paid to fight for another country?
A mercenary
Who rode through Massachusetts towns warning people that the British army was coming?
Paul Revere
Which Act took away Massachusetts self-government, appointed a military governor for the colony, and required colonists to house British soldiers
Intolerable Acts
What does scarce mean?
in short supply; not having enough
Who was the great hero of the American Navy and said "I have not yet begun to fight"?
What happened in Yorktown?
Cornwallis set up for battle with his back against the river thinking the navy would help him. Washington outnumbered them, and the British/Corwallis surrendered
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the African American man killed at the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
What is a mercenary?
A soldier from one country paid to fight for another country
Problems over the land along the Ohio River resulted in what war?
French & Indian War
What was the name of the women who dressed in men's clothing to join the Continental Army?
Deborah Sampson
What is the idea that American colonist did not have a say in English Parliament, which enacted taxes without their consent called?
taxation without representation
What was issued by the First Continental Congress to the British government saying the colonists deserved the "rights of Englishmen"
Declaration of Rights
a person who supported the cause of the colonists during the American Revolution
a patriot
in short supply; not having enough
Scarce
Define treason
disloyalty to a country by helping an enemy
A person living in the colonies that did not support the American cause and remained loyal to Great Britain
loyalist
Where was the Continental Army camped when it lost almost half its men during the winter?
Valley Forge
What did the colonists want to stop when they organised the Boston Tea Party?
Wanted to stop British tea from being delivered
Define defiant
breaking the rules on purpose
What is a large amount of something being stored for future use
stockpile
The shot heard round the world was the first gunshot of the American Revolution. What was the name of the battle where this took place?
The Battle of Lexington
Who helped train soldiers at Valley Forge?
Baron von Steuben
Who resisted the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods?
Sons of Liberty
What is a stockpile?
A large amount of something being stored for future use
What is disloyalty to a country by helping an enemy
treason
What is "taxation without representation"?
The idea that American colonist did not have a say in English Parliament, which enacted taxes without their consent
Where did General Washington win his first great victory?
Trenton