Milita Man Review

Revolutionary War Causes Unit

  1. What was the new focus on religion in the colonies called when preachers went around telling people to focus more on God than on money?

Great Awakening

  1. Church officials and plantation owners were members of what social class in the colonies?

Gentry

  1. Who allied (or teamed up) with the Native Americans in the French and Indian War?

French

  1. 1,000 soldiers were killed with what British general who had been warned by George Washington in the French and Indian War?

General Braddock

  1. What did King George III do when he decided he didn’t want colonists exploring into the Ohio RiverValley?

Proclamation Line

  1. What is a tax on foreign products called?

Tariff

  1. Name the 4 social classes in order from highest to lowest.

Gentry, Middle, No name, Lower

  1. Who won the French and Indian War and what do you call the peace agreement at the end of war?

Great Britain and the Colonists; Treaty

  1. What act put a tax on printed items such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards?

Stamp Act

  1. What did the Declaratory Act do?

Said Parliament had the right to tax the colonies

  1. A group of volunteer citizens ready to fight is known as what?

Militia

  1. What act closed the BostonHarbor until the colonists paid the British for damaged tea?

Coercive Act

  1. A group formed by colonists who protested British taxes and laws was called what?

Sons of Liberty

  1. What act placed taxes on paint, glass, lead, paper, and tea?

Townshend Act

  1. What did 1 flash of light from the bell tower mean to Paul Revere?

British were coming by land

  1. In what city was the 1st Continental Congress held?

Philadelphia

  1. How many colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre?

5

  1. In what year did the Revolutionary War begin?

1775

  1. Where was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

Lexington

  1. What is someone called who lived in the colonies and wanted to continue supporting the British government?

Loyalist

  1. What area of land did Great Britain receive as part of the Treaty of Paris?

Ohio RiverValley

  1. What happened to the soldiers who were put on trial after the Boston Massacre?

7 were acquitted, 2 were branded on the thumbs for manslaughter

  1. Who said that the job of a government was to protect its peoples’ freedoms of life, liberty, and property?

John Locke

  1. What act did Great Britain pass after the Sugar Act?

Quartering Act

  1. What is it called when someone refuses to buy or use a product as a form of protest?

Boycott

  1. How many British soldiers were killed at the battle ofLexington?

0

  1. The colonists wrote a letter to the King and succeeded when trying to get the King to get rid of what act?

Stamp Act

  1. In what year was the Boston Massacre?

1770

  1. Why did Britain think the Tea Act was good for colonists? Why did the colonists think it was bad?

Lowered the tax on tea; Took jobs from the colonists

  1. Who fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington?

No one knows for sure

  1. Who was the British captain during the Boston Massacre?

Captain Preston

  1. How many soldiers didBritain send to help the colonists the 2nd time they asked for help in the French and Indian War?

9,000

  1. Who was the British king during the French and Indian War?

King George II

  1. What act came next after the Declaratory Act?

Townshend Act

  1. What act said colonists would have to feed, clothe, and shelter British soldiers?

Quartering Act

  1. Why did the colonists dress up as Indians during the Boston Tea Party?

To disguise themselves so the British didn’t know who they were

  1. In what city was the Stamp Act Congress held?

New York City

  1. Who was one of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty?

Sam Adams or John Hancock

  1. How many colonists made up the militia that gathered in Lexington?

70

  1. What is the term for illegally sneaking something into the country?

Smuggling

  1. In what social class were doctors and lawyers in the colonies?

Middle Class

  1. How were social classes in the colonies different from social classes in Britain?

In the colonies you could move up or down, in Britain you could not move

  1. Who is the African American colonist that was killed in the Boston Massacre?

Crispus Attucks

  1. In what city did the colonists win their first battle of the Revolutionary War?

Concord

  1. What is someone called who favored independence from the British?

Patriot

  1. How many riders warned the colonists that the British were coming to take a shed full of weapons in Concord?

3

  1. What law came after the Proclamation Line?

Sugar Act

  1. What was the colonists’ biggest argument against British taxes?

“No Taxation Without Representation”

  1. What did John Locke think should happen to a government that could not protect its’ peoples basic rights?

It should be changed

  1. What was the knife called at the end of a musket?

Bayonet

  1. What is the entire amount of money that a country owes called?

National Debt

  1. What colonist made a picture of the Boston Massacre from the colonists’ point of view?

Paul Revere

  1. What war put Britain in a big national debt?

French and Indian War

  1. What is the British lawmaking group called?

Parliament

  1. Give 1 reason why the colonists thought the Coercive Act was unfair.

Not all the colonists should be punished for something a small group did; OR… colonists could not pay for the tea if they were not able to work with the harbor closed

  1. The Tea Act was the cause for what event in the colonies?

Boston Tea Party

  1. Colonists getting killed in the Ohio RiverValley was the cause of what law passed in the colonies?

Proclamation Line

  1. The shots fired at Lexington were the immediate cause of what war?

Revolutionary War

  1. From a colonists point of view, give 1 reason why the Townshend Acts were worse than the Stamp Act.

5 things taxed instead of 3; OR Needs taxed instead of wants

  1. Where were the colonists hiding weapons that the British found out about?

Concord