2. KNOW YOUR VOCAB BATTLES OF THE WAR BACK IN THE COLONIAL DAYS TAXES, PATRIOTS, AND LOYALIST HE SAID WHAT! WAR STRATEGIES More VOCAB 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500 200 300300 400 500 200 300 400 200 300 400 500 200 300 400 500

3. The way your culture makes, trades, and consumes goods (100) Answer: Economy

4. How you interact with those around, your traditions and beliefs (200) Answer: Society

5. Government document of Plymouth Colony that was agreed upon by the Pilgrims (300) Answer: Mayflower Compact

6. The name of the government body in the Virginia Colony (400) Answer: House of Burgesses

7. The economic system that creates and maintains wealth through a country’s colonies Answer: Mercantilism

8. Fighting for a cause they believed in and trying to gain their freedom would be considered a strength for which side in the war? (100) Answer: Americans

9. “DAILY DOUBLE” This key battle is considered the turning point in the American Revolution? Answer: Battle of Saratoga

10. The first battle of the American Revolution was called… (300) Answer: Lexington and Concord

11. This Battle was a moral victory for the Americans even though they lost to the British (400) Answer: Battle of Bunker Hill

12. Fighting for a cause they believed in and trying to gain their freedom would be a strength for which side in the war? (100) Fighting for a cause they believed in and trying to gain their freedom would be a strength for which side in the war? (100) Answer: Americans/Colonists

13. This cultural group first settled what is today New York State… (100) Answer: The Dutch

14. The Americans are able to beat the British at the Battle of Yorktown to end the war. This country helped us to win that last battle… (500) Answer: The French

15. The name given to the Dutch colony in the new world…(200) Answer: New Amsterdam

16. What is the main reason that the Pilgrims decided to settle in the new world? (300) Answer: Religious Freedom

17. What is a reason that the European’s wanted to establish colonies?? (400) Answer: Make money/profit from trade

18. What product made the biggest profit for the colony of Jamestown in Virginia (500) Answer: tobacco

19. Person who would support revolting against the British (100) Answer: Patriots

20. Persons who would support the British in the American Revolution (200) Answer: Loyalists

21. To refuse to buy certain goods, method used often to protest movements (300) Answer:boycott

22. Answer: Tea Act The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16 th, 1775. The protest by the son’s of liberty was a result of this act passed by the king… (400)

23. Colonists argued that the king did not have the right to tax them because… (500) Answer: colonists were not represented in parliament

24. The Declaration of Independence was written by this man… (100) Answer: Thomas Jefferson

25. Thomas Paine believed we should break away from England. To convince his fellow colonists he wrote this pamphlet… (200) Answer: Common Sense

26. The British passed the Proclamation of 1763 was passed for the colonists after the French and Indian War. The King told the colonists they couldn’t settle west of this feature… (300) Answer: Appalachian Mountains

27. “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” …According to this quote who does the government get their power from??? (400) Answer: The people/ the governed

28. When Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the main purpose of the document was to tell the King and Parliament what? (500) Answer: To tell the king why we were breaking away

29. This country becomes a key ally of the American’s in the Revolutionary War… (100) Answer: The French

30. Answer: George Washington The Commander of the Continental Army was… (200)

31. Answer: The British Traditional fighting tactics such as battle field warfare was the strategy of this side… (300)

32. The American strategy in the war was called this …(400) Answer: Guerilla Warfare

33. Why did the strategy of the British to blockade the American ports work so well to hurt the colonists?? (500) Answer: To prevent supplies from coming in from France

34. “THE PERSON WHO HAS THE CLOSEST BIRTHDAY WINS THIS QUESTION”

35. “Who came up with the Atomic Theory? A blast from the past ” Answer: John Dalton

36. Name of the British law-making body (100) Answer: Parliament

37. This law required the colonists to keep the British troops in their home against their will (200) Answer: Quartering Act

38. “DAILY DOUBLE” “This law said the American’s could only trade with England” Answer: Navigation Acts

39. Event was used by some colonists to turn American’s against the British. Pictured to the right… (400) Answer: Boston Massacre

40. Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to deal with the British (500) Answer: First Continental Congress

41. Timer Place your wagers! Category:PREFIX/SUFFIX When the Treaty of Paris was signed, what became our WESTERN boarder?? Mississippi River