Unit 2 American Revolution Vocabulary

Question 1

a meeting of 55 colonial leaders held to voice American interests and challenge British control

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Continental Congress

Question 2

The formal agreement that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence.

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Treaty of Paris

Question 3

Battle where Washington crossed the Delaware River to surprise attack Hessian soldiers

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Battle of Trenton

Question 4

Act passed by British Parliament that placed a tax on printed material in the American Colonies

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Stamp Act

Question 5

New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware

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Middle Colonies

Question 6

Movement led by Martin Luther that broke with the Catholic Church because of church abuses

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Protestant Reformation

Question 7

This law allowed British officials to search the colonies whenever and wherever they wanted

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Writs of assistance

Question 8

Massachusetts town where British thought Patriots were stashing weapons and ammunition

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Concord

Question 9

British General who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia

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Cornwallis

Question 10

Event when Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and boarded ships to protest Tea Act

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Boston Tea Party

Question 11

War between France and England also known as the Seven Years War

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French and Indian War

Question 12

Maryland, Virginia, NC, SC, Georgia

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Southern Colonies, Southern Colonies

Question 13

Document that announces America's independence from England

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Declaration of Independence

Question 14

One of the main complaints the colonists had against the British lawmakers in Parliament

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Taxation without Representation

Question 15

This town in Virginia is where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington to end the Revolution

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Yorktown

Question 16

An area of NC where Patriots forced 1000 Loyalists to retreat from a position on the mountain

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Kings Mountain

Question 17

an agreement signed by Plymouth Pilgrims that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

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Mayflower Compact

Question 18

This is the place Washington and the Continental Army spent the brutal winter of 1778

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Valley Forge

Question 19

This dude was the governor of Jamestown Colony

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John Smith

Question 20

This Virginia Colonist brought a new type of tobacco seed to the Colonies

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John Rolfe

Question 21

The first successful English colony in the Americas, founded in 1607.

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Jamestown Colony

Question 22

This is the colony that vanished from the NC coast. Croatoan was carved in a tree there.

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Roanoke Colony

Question 23

the exchange of ideas, goods, cultures and diseases between the Old World and the New World

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Columbian Exchange

Question 24

1770 event that left 5 Colonists dead, including Crispus Attucks

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Boston Massacre

Question 25

Act passed by Parliament that removed the import tax on British India Tea Co.s tea imports

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Tea Act

Question 26

a German military officer who taught military skills and discipline to the Continental Army

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Baron von Steuben

Question 27

Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire

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New England Colonies

Question 28

Document written by citizens of Halifax County, NC suggesting independence from Britain

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Halifax Resolves

Question 29

Colony founded by Puritans sailing from England on the ship called "Mayflower."

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Plymouth Colony

Question 30

This is the Massachusetts town where "the shot heard 'round the world" was fired

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Lexington

Question 31

Acts known as the Coercive Acts that were meant to punish citizens of Mass.

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Intolerable Acts

Question 32

Group started by Samuel Adams that protested the Stamp Act and other British controls

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Sons of Liberty

Question 33

This document written by Mecklenburg County residents stated that British law was invalid.

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Mecklenburg Resolves

Unit 2 American Revolution Vocabulary

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Unit 2 American Revolution Vocabulary

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