American Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.

• Advocate
• Patriots
• Loyalists
• The Crisis

Idea created by Benjamin Franklin that the colonies can't be free if they don't unite

• Advocate
• The Crisis
• Join or Die
• Grievance

Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense and The Crisis arguing for American independence from Britain.

• Loyalist
• Thomas Paine
• John Locke
• Benjamin Franklin

1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.

• Loyalist
• Committees of Correspondence
• Patriots
• Declaration of Independence

Military formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies

• Loyalist
• Committees of Correspondence
• Join or Die
• Continental Army

Showed that the colonist could stand next to the British forces; the Americans inflicted large casualties on the British but lost the battle due to a shortage of ammunition

• Battle of Yorktown
• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Battle of Trenton
• Battle of Saratoga

A cause of distress felt to afford a reason for complaint, formal or informal

• Grievance
• Olive Branch Petition
• Advocate
• Join or Die

1774: Held in Philadelphia. The colonial delegates agreed to boycott British goods and wrote the Declaration of Rights and Grievances (which said they would meet up again if they had to). This was the first sign of unification of the colonies.

• Second Continental Congress
• First Continental Congress
  Battle of Trenton
• First Continental Congress
• Albany Plan of Union

Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day, 1776 and defeated the Hessian soldiers there fighting for the British.

• Battle of Yorktown
• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Trenton

Thomas Paine's writing to encourage Americans to keep fighting for independence from Britain.

• The Crisis
• Loyalist
• Join or Die
• Patriots