Abeka 4th Grade History Test 1

Patrick Henry

"Give me liberty or give me death"

warmest ocean

Indian Ocean

King George III

King of England who didn't allow the colonies to trade with any other colonies

Second Continental Congress

Met to declare war on England(Britain) and make preparations for war

Paul Revere

One of the Sons of Liberty who warned of the British attack on Lexington

largest ocean

Pacific

John Hancock

Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress

Great Awakening

Religious revival in the American colonies

Boston Tea Party

The Sons of Liberty threw tea into the Boston Harbor

treaty

a formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries

Minutemen

citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice

France

claimed the land in the Great Lakes region, Canada, and the Mississippi Valley before the French and Indian War

George Whitefield

considered the most powerful voice of the Great Awakening

Colonists

fought alongside the English in the French and Indian War

Stamp Act

law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

First Continental Congress

met to list the rights that American colonists should have

1775

American War for Independence begins

coldest ocean

Arctic Ocean

smallest ocean

Arctic Ocean

largest continent

Asia

smallest continent

Australia

General Braddock

British commander in the French and Indian War.

Intolerable Acts

series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party

England

took control of the land east of the Mississippi River

Isaac Watts

wrote many hymns that were sung during the Great Awakening

Boston Massacre

5 Boston citizens were killed by British soldiers