The Spirit of Independence/Lesson 3: A Call to Arms

Delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia gathered at the Continental Congress in_____.

• New York

• Boston

• Philadelphia

• Charleston

Meeting of colonial delegates held in Philadelphia in 1774 to decide

how to respond to increased taxes and abuses of authority by the British

government.

• Stamp Congress

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Cogress

• World Congress

The Continental Congress endorsed a plan that called for the colonies to _____.

• shelter British soldiers in homes

• tax their citizens

• arm themselves against the British

• plan an attack on British troops in Boston

A _____ is a group of citizen soldiers.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Militia

• Mercenaries

Some militias were known as _____ because they would be ready to fight quickly.

• Red coats

• guerillas

• commandos

• minutemen

Americans who supported Great Britain during the American Revolution.

• Patriots

• Committees of correspondence

• Loyalists

• Guerillas

Americans who favored independence from Great Britain during the

American Revolution.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Guerrillas

• Hessians

British general _______________________________ordered his troops to to seize the weapons from the Massachusetts militia and arrest their leaders in Concord.

• George Washington

• King George III

• William Dawes

• Thomas Gage

Patriots such as Paul Revere and __________________________rode to Lexington to spread the word that the British soldiers were coming.

• Samuel Adams

• Crispus Attucks

• William Dawes

• Patrick Henry

The first battles of the American Revolution happened at _____________________________________.

• Saratoga and Bunker Hill

• Yorktown and Princeton

• Lexington and Concord

• Fort Sumter and Vicksburg