Chapter 4 The War for Independence

Question 1

Which of the following men helped to found or start the Sons of Liberty?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 2

Where the did the Continental Army camp during the winter when 2000 men died of cold and hunger

Accepted Answer

Valley Forge

Question 3

Which European country supported the American colonies during the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 4

How did the colonists react to the Intolerable Acts?

Accepted Answer

First Continental Congress wrote a declaration of rights

Question 5

The British decided to negotiate a peace settlement after General ___ surrendered at Yorktown.

Accepted Answer

General Cornwallis

Question 6

The colonies' response to the ____was to assemble the First Continental Congress.

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 7

Colonists who were loyal to Great Britain and King George were called

Accepted Answer

loyalists

Question 8

This was signed in September 1783 ending the war and setting the boundary of the United States.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Paris

Question 9

Who lead the command of the French troops in the last years of the war?

Accepted Answer

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 10

Whose concepts did Jefferson draw upon as he drafted the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

John Locke's

Question 11

Where did British troops go in 1775 to capture Colonial leaders and destroy munitions (weapons)

Accepted Answer

Lexington

Question 12

Who wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 13

Which event confirmed American independence and set the boundaries of the new nation?

Accepted Answer

the Treaty of Paris

Question 14

What did the Townshend Acts bring about or start?

Accepted Answer

taxes on imported goods

Question 15

Whose ideas influenced Thomas Jefferson while writing the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 16

Colonists who were loyal to the colonies were called

Accepted Answer

patriots

Question 17

The _____ placed a tax on goods imported from Britain included glass, paint, and tea.

Accepted Answer

Townshend Acts

Question 18

This is the belief in equality of all people.

Accepted Answer

egalitarianism

Questions 18