American History Chapter 4 Worksheets
Boston Massacre
Conflict in which occupying British soldiers killed five protesting colonists
Declaration of Independence
Congress approved the _______ which proclaimed that the colonies were free from British rule.
Came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons
Fighting began in Lexington and Concord when British troops:
Marquis de Lafayette
French aristocrat who provided military expertise to the Continental Army
Committee of Correspondence
Groups that formed after the Boston Massacre to promote colonial unity
Mercenaries
Hired soldiers who fought for pay
Other republican groups fought to overthrow aristocratic governments
In what way did the American Revolution affect other countries?
Boston Tea Party
Incident in which colonists destroyed cargo to protest British trade policies
Valley Forge
Location of Washington's winter encampment in 1777 and 1778
Were breaking the law
Loyalists believed Patriots were ___
manumission
Many plantation owners in Maryland and Virginia practiced _____ and voluntarily freed their slaves.
First Continental Congress
Meeting at which colonial delegates formed plans to boycott all British goods
Saratoga
Site of major Patriot victory in upstate New York
Distracted British troops
Spanish attacks on British forts in the South ____
Stamp Act
Tax on printed materials imposed on American colonists by Parliament
Natural Rights
The Declaration of Independence claims that people have _____ that cannot be taken away by any government.
Explained why colonists were angry with British rule
The Declaration of Independence was written to ____
militia
The Patriot army fighting near Boston was a ______ that included farmers who became soldiers to fight the British.
Saratoga
The Patriots began to hope they could win the war after the Battle of ______
Yorktown
The Patriots received help from the French at the battle of _____
Kings Mountain
The Patriots won a brutal battle at ______, NC
Treaty of Paris
The ___________ ended the American Revolution.
George Washington
The new Continental Army was commanded by _____
Rejecting class structure and privilege
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" inspired colonists by _____
Patrick Henry
Virginia representative who argued for more radical opposition to Parliament
The British did not support Loyalist militias adequately
What contributed to the British defeat in the South?
Ceded far more territory to the US than the colonists had won in the war
What did the Treaty of Paris do?
Outraged colonists protested to new taxes
What was one effect of new British taxes on colonists?
The British army had more weapons and ships than the Continental Army
Which advantage was held by the British at the beginning of the war?
Sons of Liberty
Which group led violent protests against British taxation in the colonies?
More colonists became politically active
Which resulted from the First Continental Congress?
The British lost twice as many troops as did the Patriots
Why was the Battle of Bunker Hill considered a Patriot Victory?
Loyalists
______ were colonists who supported Britain during the war.
Thomas Jefferson
_______ drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Native American and Patriots
Battles on the frontier took place mostly between ______
William Howe
British commander who led the Battle of Bunker Hill
Eliminated in the North
After the Revolution, the practice of enslaving African Americans was _______
The right to representation
American colonists valued which British principle of government?
Benjamin Franklin
American diplomat who negotiated alliance with France
Gained respect
As a result of the Revolution, women in America ____
