Road To Independence
Approximately how many Loyalists left the United States as a result of the American Revolution?
100,000
On March 5, 1770, antagonism between citizens and British soldiers flared into violence in an event known as what?
Boston Massacre
What organization, in 1773, was granted a monopoly on all tea imported by the colonies?
British East India Company
The shot heard around the world" was fired under the command of whom?
Captain John Parker
Who served as Great Britain's chancellor of the exchequer in 1767?
Charles Townshend
What was the principal Southern port in the American colonies?
Charleston, South Carolina
Who led a French expeditionary force of 6,000 men in July, 1780?
Comte Jean de Rochambeau
General George Washington crossed the ______north of Trenton, NJ, on December 25, 1776.
Delaware
What area of North America was returned to Spain by the Treaty of Paris?
Florida
The colonies wanted to extend their boundaries as far west as the _______.
Mississippi River
What law extended the boundaries of the province of Quebec south to the Ohio River?
Quebec Act
General Cornwallis surrendered at ________ on October 19, 1781.
Yorktown
What did the Declaratory Act do?
Asserted the Authority of Parliament to make laws
Who infamously betrayed the Americans at West Point, NY?
Benedict Arnold
What American intellectual and inventor was sent to Paris in 1776 to gain France's support for the American Revolution?
Benjamin Franklin
The British soundly defeated the Americans at Cowpens, SC, in early 1781. T or F
False
The French sent very little aid to the American colonies during the American Revolution. T or F
False
The ideas of the American Revolution have been most depicted as a triumph of Calvinist dissenting Protestantism. T or F
False
The majority of colonials strove energetically to keep the tax controversy alive. T or F
False
When Loyalists voluntarily left or were expelled from the United States, American society became less liberal-minded. T or F
False
What general led British troops in the South?
General Charles Cornwallis
What British general sent troops to face 77 Minutemen at Lexington on April 19, 1775?
General Thomas Gage
American leaders argued that their only legal relations were with whom?
George III
Who was appointed commander-in chief of colonial forces on June 15, 1775?
George Washington
Coercive Acts were also known as the ______ Acts.
Intolerable
What Philadelphia lawyer wrote Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer?
John Dickerson
Spurred by whom, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a set of resolutions in May 1765, denouncing taxation without representation as a threat to colonial liberties?
Patrick Henry
George Washington defeated the British at _______, NJ, on January 3, 1777.
Princeton
The _____required local authorities to find suitable quarters for British troops, in private homes if necessary.
Quartering Act
What Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress introduced a resolution declaring, "That these United Colonies are, and of the right ought to be free and independent states"?
Richard Henry Lee
Who was the most effective leader of the radicals arguing for independence?
Samuel Adams
Who, on December 16, 1773, led a band of men disguised as Mohawk Indians to dump tea into Boston harbor?
Samuel Adams
Secret organizations formed to protest the Stamp Act, often through violent means, were known as what?
Sons of Liberty
The ______ required all newspaper, broadsides, pamphlets, licenses, leases, and other legal documents to bear revenue stamps.
Stamp Act
The Molasses Act of 1733 was replaced by the ________ of 1764.
Sugar Act
The Townshend Acts were based were based in what legal premise?
That taxes imposed on goods imported by the colonies were legal while internal taxes were not
What law was enacted by Parliament in 1764 "to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter issued in any of His Majesty's colonies from being made legal tender"?
The Currency Act
What meeting was held in Philadelphia on Sept. 5, 1774?
The First Continental Congress
What 1765 law required colonies to provide royal troops with provisions and barracks?
The Quartering Act
What meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 10, 1775?
The Second Continental Congress
______ were warrants that authorized the king's officers to search suspected premises.
The Writs of Assistance
What treaty was signed on February 6, 1778 with France?
The treaty of Amity and Converse
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote Common Sense
Thomas Paine
General Washington and his troops spent the brutally cold winter of 1777-1778 at _____, PN, where they were short of clothing, food, and supplies.
Valley Forge
What theory assumed that all British subjects shared the same interests as the property owners who elected members of Parliament?
Virtual Representation