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Revolution 2.0
Vocabulary 2.0
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Revolution
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A small boat.
What is a skiff?
100
Improved accuracy (rifling), effectiveness (bullets), and efficiency (light weight) helped the patriots during fighting in the revolution. Also, the use of bayonets helped the patriots.
What changed with rifles during the revolution that helped the patriots?
100
A military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender.
What is a siege?
100
The name of Harry Potter's owl since the age of 11.
Who was Hedwig?
100
The rebel soldiers trained to fight at a moment's notice.
What were Minute Men?
200
An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change
What is resilience?
200
This alliance would bring naval supplies, guns, ammunition, uniforms and trained officers to the aid of rebels in America.
Why was it important for America to ally with France during the revolution?
200
A bacterial infection spread by fleas and lice.
What is typhus?
200
This revolutionary group fights the Galactic Empire during Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are notable fighters from this faction.
What was the Rebel Alliance?
200
The first military engagement of the revolution?
What were the battles of Lexington and Concord?
300
A small usually temporary enclosed defensive work position.
What is redoubt?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! -Describe three reasons why the Americans with the Revolutionary War.
Most Excellent
300
The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate immunization.
What is inoculation?
300
Rachel McAdams played this "mean girl" in the 2004 classic film, Mean Girls.
Who was Regina George?
300
Leader of the Continental Army and eventual president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
400
Promptness in response : cheerful readiness.
What is alacrity?
400
Inoculation was an innovative method used to immunize soldiers during the war. Doctors would intentionally expose soldiers to communicable diseases to build their immunity.
What was a new tactic used to fight disease during the revolution?
400
A series of laws created to punish the colonists. They increased taxes and cut off trade with major ports.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
Which television channel broadcasts the greatest sporting event in both sports and events, the Puppy Bowl, where the participants can be flagged for "excessive cuteness".
What is Animal Planet?
400
This man was a pioneer of guerrilla warfare. His back country victories helped drive off the British. He was also famous for assassinating British officers, which was taboo at the time.
Who was Daniel Morgan?
500
Extraordinary in size, quantity, or degree.
What is prodigious?
500
Smuggling, protests, and general unrest in this region led to Britain losing control over major ports. The British resolve to teach the colonists in this area a lesson. They even burned the town of Falmouth, Maine.
Why did the British seek revenge on northeastern towns, and how did they punish places in Maine?
500
Something that crosses or lies across. An obstacle, adversity.
What is traverse?
500
A psychological disorder that inhibits an individual's ability to articulate his or her thoughts by temporarily forgetting key words, phrases or names in conversation. Affected in the temporal lobe.
What is lethologica?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! -Discuss three important provisions from the Peace treaty of Paris.
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