The Colonial Army

The Colonial Army

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Review Questions

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Multiple Choice

Britain needed money to pay for the__________

• French and Indian War.

• Hundred Years War

Multiple Choice

In 1764, Britain created the____________.

• Salt Act

• Sugar Act

Multiple Choice

Parliament passed the ______ after the Sugar Act.

• Envelope Act

• Stamp Act

• Sticker Act

Multiple Choice

Parliament passed the ___________ that put a tax on mostly everything imported.

• Townshend Acts

• Errrr-thang Act

Multiple Choice

___________wove own cloth to boycott the Townshend Acts.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Seamstress's of America

Multiple Choice

___________ was shot during the Boston Massacre.

• Steven Gerald Mancuso

• Crispus Attucks

• James Anthony Perrotta

Multiple Choice

_________ publishes picture of the Boston Massacre.

• Paul Revere

• H.G. Wells

Multiple Choice

In 1773, Parliament passed the________.

• Coffee Act

• Latte Act

• Tea Act

Multiple Choice

_________threw tea into the Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party).

• The Sons of Liberty

• The people allergic to tea

• The Tea Haters of America

Multiple Choice

Parliament passed the______________ (colonists call them Intolerable Acts) to punish the colonists.

• Coercive Acts

• Detention Acts

• Nasty Acts

Multiple Choice

Colonists were forced to___________ British soldiers.

• quarter

• pay

Multiple Choice

_____________ meets to discuss the Intolerable Acts.

• The First Continental Congress

• The Brothers of Freedom

• The Third Peninsula Peoples

Multiple Choice

Throughout the colonies, militias prepared for_________

• Thanksgiving dinner

• war

Multiple Choice

General Gage learned of a/an _____________ in Concord, MA.

• ammunitions supply

• new tea party

Multiple Choice

_____________ warned the minutemen that the British were coming. ( The Regulars were comin out)

• Paul Revere and his buddies

• The patriot App on their phones

Multiple Choice

The minutemen met the Soldiers in____________

• a zoom call

• Lexington, MA.

Multiple Choice

No one knows who fired the first shot ( "the shot heard 'round the world).

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The next battle took place in___________

• Concord

• East Bumblejam

Multiple Choice

The 3rd battle took place at___________

• Breeds Hill/Bunker Hill

• Knob Hill

• Ash Hill

Colonial Army

• The First Continental Congress had sent King George III a letter demanding he repeal the coercive acts and let the colonists have a vote ( No Taxation Without Representation)

• While waiting for his response the colonists organized militias and trained for battle

• The king refused the demands, so the delegates held the Second Continental Congress

• They knew war was almost certain and they could not rely on untrained militias. They needed an army

• Militias only fought for a few months at a time. An army soldier could fight until the war was over

Colonial Army

• Congress decided to create the Continental Army

• They would train these soldiers like the British had been trained

• Congress needed a commander for the Army- A commander is the main person in charge of the army

• Congress chose George Washington- He had experience from fighting in the French and Indian War

• Washington rode to Boston to organize his army

Olive Branch Petition

• Congress did not WANT to go to war. They just wanted fair treatment from the king

• Congress made one last attempt at peace- July 1775, congress sent King George III the Olive Branch Petition

• The petition was signed by many members of congress- It requested that the King help end the conflict

• The king didn't even read it. Instead he sent more soldiers to the colonies

Olive Branch Petition

• For the next 9 months British soldiers stayed in Boston

• The colonial militia used this time to train like a real army

• Washington sent Henry Knox to Fort Ticonderoga in NY. The Americans took this fort and its ammunitions from the British

Olive Branch Petition

• The cannons were dragged from New York to Boston

• When the cannons arrived the British sailed out of Boston

• This was a huge victory but just the beginning of war.

Question Time

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Multiple Choice

The Second Continental Congress decided to create a/an___________

• army

• college

• committee to explore possibilities

Multiple Choice

Who was made commander of the Army?

• Colonel Sanders

• George Washington

• John Rolfe

Multiple Choice

Congress sent King George III the____________

• Olive Branch Petition

• best recipe for brownies

Multiple Choice

The colonial army surrounded Boston and forced the British___________

• leave Boston

• to give a sincere apology

Multiple Choice

The war was_______

• over

• just beginning