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US Ch.4
Chapter 4 US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civilian soldiers from Massachusetts, usually ready in a minute or less. | Minutemen |
| Declared the Colonies' loyalty to the King George III and said that the Colonists only wanted peace between them and England. The King refused | Olive Branch Petition |
| Influential pro-independence pamphlet by Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| A direct tax on the Colonists that Britain eventually removed | Stamp Act |
| A person who favored independence from Britain | Patriot |
| Colonists who were in favor of the King and opposed independence | Loyalist |
| The British taxed the Colonists on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies | Townshend Act |
| Is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions of government | Martial Law |
| Meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British | Intolerable Acts |
| George Washington was named the leader of the Continental Army as a result | Second Continental Congress |
| Washington attacked on Christmas and won a major victory for the colonists. As a result, the colonists moral boosted. | Trenton |
| The British take over here, which is the place where you would find the most loyalists. | New York |
| As a result of victory for the colonists, France decides to enter the war. | Saratoga |
| Clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in which 5 colonist were killed (Crispus Attucks) | Boston Massacre |
| One of the groups set up by the colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties. Also used to manage colonial public opinion. | Committees of Correspondence |