Unit 7/ Lesson #7 VOCAB

The colonial militia fired at the British soldiers as they traveled along the road to Lexington and Concord, wounding many men and forcing the British to ___________to Boston.

• levy

• retreat

• casualties

• scores

Members of the Second Continental Congress appointed _____________________as representatives to foreign countries.

• declaration

• abstain

• scores

• ambassadors

WIlliam Prescott_______________________Breed's Hill, making sure the militia had all the supplies they needed to defend themselves against the British army.

• abstain

• declaration

• retreat

• fortified

There were ________________at both sides at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• ambassadors

• implications

• casualties

• scores

Without _______________, the militia was unable to fire its cannons.

• ammunition

• scores

• levy

• retreat

Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the official_______________________ of independence.

• scores

• levy

• declaration

• retreat

THe Declaration of Independence was approved by every colony except New York, which decided to _______________.

• scores

• levy

• fortified

• abstain

Many colonists felt it was unfair for Parliament to ___________taxes on the colonies.

• scores

• retreat

• ammunition

• levy

Victory in battle is not always celebrated because_______________of soldiers often die.

• scores

• ammunition

• implications

• levy

It is doubtful whether the signers of the Declaration of Independence imagined the ___________________of their act on the future of the United States of America.

• fortified

• declaration

• implications

• casualties