History quiz 3

Tariff

A special tax on imports

Stamp Act of 1765

A stamp tax imposed by parliament required on newspapers and official documents Not set by their own government assemblies.

Rallying cry for colonists right after the Stamp Act

“No taxation without representation”

Group formed in opposition to British rule, based first in Boston

Sons of Liberty

Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?

Patrick Henry

The event where colonists threw sticks and snowballs at British soldiers, a gun went off, soldiers fired into the crowd, and five men died

Boston Massacre

The event where colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded ships in the dark and dumped 342 cases of tea into the harbor

Boston Tea Party

Main four Intolerable Acts of 1774 (WRONG PROBABLY)

Sugar Act, 🍭

Currency Act, 🤑

Stamp Act, 🏷

Quartering Act. 🛏

Why were members of the militia called minute men?

Because they had to be ready to fight upon a minutes notice

First two battles of the American Revolution

Battles of Lexington and concord

Who rode to warn the Massachusetts countryside that the British were coming?

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Who captured Fort Ticonderoga with the Green Mountain Boys?

Ethan allen

Who were the Hessians (in the American Revolution)

Hessian Germany soldiers as mercenaries hired by British

Commander-in-chief of the Continental (American) army

George Washington

What was the Crossing of the Delaware River on the way to the Battle of Trenton?

Cold because of winter storm

Turning point of the war

Battle of Saratoga

America’s ally in the Revolutionary War

France

Who said, ‘I have not yet begun to fight’?

John Paul Jones

In what battle did Gen. Cornwallis surrender, effectively ending the war

Battle of Yorktown

One important difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution

Americans committed violence in the fact of starting the war

France had more than that.

1. brutal mobs

2. murders and

3. theft.

21. (HS only) Choose one Revolutionary War figure from this past class and be ready to write 3 sentences about him/her

(SIMEON ONLY DIY) Henry Knox was very tall.

Established a military school that became west point.

Supported sons of liberty.