Key Vocab
Surprise attacks
Bonus 200: Group of civilians trained to fight in an emergency.
Ambush
Bonus 200: Militia
This act put a tax on all items that had printing on them.
Bonus 200: To protest this group encourage people to wear homemade clothes and produce their own things.
Stamp Act (1765)
Bonus 200: Daughters of Liberty
Document written by the colonists that declared the colonies free from England and no longer had to listen to the King.
Bonus 100: Who was the document written to?
Bonus 150: Who wrote this document?
Bonus 300: On what day was the document signed officially?
Bonus 200: Who signed their name the largest?
Declaration of Independence
Bonus 100: King George III
Bonus 150: Thomas Jefferson
Bonus 300: July 4, 1776
Bonus 200: John Hancock
In the decade right before the American Revolution, England and France fought a war from 1754 to 1763. This led to France being kicked out of North America. What war was this?
Bonus 150: What was on the land gained by colonists that prevented them from settling the land?
Bonus 100: To pay for the war, King George III came up with a series of _______.
French and Indian War
Bonus 150: Native Americans
Bonus 100: Taxes
Colonists who fought on the side of gaining independence from England were called:
Bonus 300: Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense” that encouraged many colonists to move toward independence from England.
Bonus 200: Colonists who decided to remain on the King’s side during the American Revolution were called:
Bonus 150: People who do not choose sides in a conflict or stay out of the conflict are called:
Patriots
Bonus 300: Thomas Paine
Bonus 200: Loyalists
Bonus 150: Neutral
Daily Double: A religious group in Pennsylvania that remained neutral during the American Revolution. (Quakers)
When the cost of something goes up, but the amount that you get stays the same.
Bonus 200: Name 1 example of this:
Inflation
Bonus 200: Gas
A tax on molasses that the British put on the colonists.
Bonus 100: This act prevented the colonies from trading with this country:
Bonus 200: Illegally bringing something into the country that is not supposed to be there is called:
Bonus 300: Instead juries enforcing the law, who enforced the law in the colonies according to the act?
Sugar Act
Bonus 100: France
Bonus 200: Smuggling
Bonus 300: British judges
This person said “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
Early American Revolution battle in which the British won, but the message was sent to King George III that defeating the colonists would not be easy.
Bonus 150: A new type of war in which a hit and run technique that uses surprise attacks is used. (example: hiding behind rocks, in trees, etc.)
Bunker Hill
Bonus 150: Guerilla Warfare
A person who dies for a cause or an idea is called a:
Bonus 250: This person is 1 example he dressed up as a Dutch school teacher to spy on English troops and said that “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Bonus 200: This person was the 1st person shot at the Boston Massacre and was the crowd leader.
Martyr
Bonus 250: Nathan Hale
Bonus 200: Crispus Attucks
Paid soldier who serves in the army of a foreign country.
Bonus 300: Name 3 places British soldiers were from:
Bonus 200: Ideas or information used to influence someone’s opinion.
Mercenary
Bonus 300: Rural England, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany
Bonus 200: Propaganda
The __________ was written by the king because Native Americans would attack the colonists if they tried to settle western lands gained from France.
Bonus 250: The invisible line that colonists were not allowed to settle west of was:
Proclamation of 1763
Bonus 250: Appalachian Mountains
This person said that you cannot have “taxation without representation.”
James Otis
Battle in which the “shot ‘heard round the world” is fired; the British wanted to destroy colonial gunpowder and take away their weapons.
Bonus 250: Way in which British troops were forced to fight.
Bonus 200: Who is famous for riding around screaming “The British are coming!!!” and also painting a cartoon of the Boston Massacre?
Bonus 1000: Who really rode the furthest (going 345 miles) warning colonists that the British were coming? (Hint: Hardly any history books talk about him).
Concord
Bonus 250: Rows and Columns
Bonus 200: Paul Revere
Bonus 1000: Israel Bissell
Name 2 reasons that the colonies had an advantage over England.
Bonus 200: The capital of the colonies during the American Revolution was located in:
1. Fought on own land, wanted to protect it.
2. Americans fought for freedom; British troops (mercenaries) fought for money
3. Leadership (colonists have George Washington)
Bonus 200: Philadelphia, PA
To officially approve:
Bonus 250: To cancel an act or a law.
Bonus 150: To commit a crime against your own country.
Ratify
Bonus 250: Repeal
Bonus 150: Treason
This act allowed British soldiers to live in your house without your permission.
Bonus 200: An act written by the king because his friend’s company the East India Company had too much tea and could not sell it all in England. The king lowered taxes in the colonies to force the colonists to buy the friend’s tea.
Daily Double
Quartering Act (1765)
Bonus 200: Tea Act (1773)
Daily Double: Documents that allowed British soldiers to search your house were called: (writs of assistance)
Who came up with the idea of “natural rights?”
Bonus 300: Name the 3 “natural rights”
Bonus 100: What country was John Locke from?
John Locke
Bonus 300: Life, liberty, and property
Bonus 100: England
Battle in which George Washington crosses the Delaware; without this victory the colonial army may have collapsed.
Bonus 250: What state is this battle located in?
Battle of Trenton
Bonus 250: New Jersey
What % of colonists became loyalists?
Bonus 200: The average time that a person signed up for the military was _____ year(s)
Bonus 100: To enlist soldiers into the army is called:
Bonus 100: Soldiers that run away from battle or the war are called:
20%
Bonus 200: 1 year
Bonus 100: Recruit
Bonus 100: Deserters
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged many colonists to move toward independence from England.
Bonus 150: The introduction to a formal document is called the _____.
“Common Sense”
Bonus 150: Preamble
A British tax on colonists that applied only to imported goods.
Bonus 200: What does the word import mean?
Bonus 150: Name 3 items that were taxed.
Townshend Acts (1767)
Bonus 200: To bring something legally into the country made in another country
Bonus 150: Glass, tea, paper, and lead
Document that said that the American Revolution was officially over.
Bonus 100: What side won the American Revolution?
Bonus 200: Who was the colonial military leader (general)?
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Bonus 100: Colonies
Bonus 200: George Washington
Battle that became known as the “turning point of the war”, France decided to help the colonies after this battle.
Bonus 250: This person was responsible for convincing France to help the colonies.
Bonus 1000: When giving a toast after this battle, John Burgoyne had this song playing in the background to "insult" and mock the colonists.
Saratoga
Bonus 250: Ben Franklin
Bonus 1000: Yankee Doodle
Some women dressed up as men to fight in the American Revolution. An example of a woman who did this was:
Bonus 250: From WWII, a cartoon character who showed that women could do the same job as men was called:
Molly Pitcher or Deborah Sampson
Bonus 250: Rosie the Riveter