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Whelchel
Revoluntionary War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Petition | a formal written request to someone in authority that is signed by a group of people. |
| French and Indian War | a war that took place from 1754 to 1763 that led to the end of French power in North America |
| Treaty of Paris | a 1763 agreement between Britain and France that ended the French and Indian War and transferred much of Northern America from French to British control |
| Blockade | the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| Civil Disobedience | the refusal to obey unjust laws using non-violent means |
| Boycott | to refuse to buy or use certain goods or services |
| Repeal | to cancel, remove from law |
| Mercenary | a soldier who fights for pay, often for a foreign country |
| Albany Plan of Union | a proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create a unified government for the British colonies |
| minuteman | Colonial militia volunteers who were prepared to fight at a minutes notice |
| Patriot | a colonist who favored war against Britain |
| Calvary | troops on horseback |
| writ of assistance | a legal document that allowed British customs officers to inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason |
| traitor | a person who betrays his or her country |
| Loyalist | a colonist who remained loyal to Britain |
| Guerrilla | a fighter who uses hit-and-run attacks |
| Militia | an army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| Siege | to surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops to force it to surrender |
| Sent by Congress to Paris to persuade Louis XVI, the French king, to give the Americans weapons and other badly needed supplies. | Benjamin Franklin |
| He was furious about the Olive Branch Petition and vowed to bring the rebels to justice. | King George III |
| Member of the House of Burgesses who fought to protect the Townsend Acts and was a General | George Washington |
| Wife of a commander who went to Valley Forge to help the sick and wounded | Martha Washington |
| Young delegate who was asked to write the Declaration of Independence. | Thomas Jefferson |
| He turned traitor to the American cause in 1780, while commanding West Point and began leading the British army | Benedict Arnold |
| Captured canons at Fort Ticonderoga and took them to Boston. They also hurried into NY to help American forces. | Green Mountain Boys |
| With 667 men, he routed the British from their forts in the Mississippi Valley, including Baton Rouge and Natchez. | Bernardo De Galvez |
| Led a boycott against the Tea Act | Daughters of Liberty |
| Enforced the boycott against tea by keeping the British East India Company from unloading cargoes of tea. | Sons of Liberty |
| One of five colonists killed at the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| Led the main British army | General Charles Cornwallis |
| Marquis de Lafayette | |
| Called one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and wrote the pamphlet Common Sense. | Thomas Paine |
| She carried water to her husband and other soldiers and took his place when he was wounded. | Mary Ludwig Hays aka Molly Pitcher |
| He was a key figure in the American Revolution and did much to further the Patriot cause | John Adams |
| It's believed that his declaration at a meeting prompted the Boston Tea Party | Sam Adams |
| She was a key figure in the American Revolution and did much to further the Patriot cause | Abigail Adams |
| Important military leader who captured the British warship Serapis | Captain John Paul Jones |
| a war that took place from 1754 to 1763 that led to the end of French power in North America | French and Indian War |
| A proclamation that drew an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains to prohibit the British from settling | Proclamation 1763 |
| A confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. | Boston Massacre |
| A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies | Townsend Acts |
| a political protest that occurred in Boston, MA . American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. | Boston Tea Party |
| Battles between the redcoats and minutemen | Lexington and Concorde |
| Early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the British defeated the Americans at this battle in MA | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| The British surrender at this battle ended the American Revolutionary War. | Battle of Yorktown |
| Explain why France and Spain would send the Patriots supplies. | Spain and France had a history of fighting the British The resentment they felt toward the British for their losses during the French and Indian war may have encouraged them |
| Why would France and Spain side with the Patriots during the Revolutionary War? | They would benefit by defeating the British and both France and Spain could use their alliance to protect their territorial claims |
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