4.2 Vocabulary Quiz

A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government: delegates petitioned the king with the Declaration of Rights

• Boston Harbor Meeting

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

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

• Soldiers

• Patriots

• Fighters

American colonial militia memebers ready to fight at a minute's notice

• minutemen

• Secondmen Fighters

• Patriots

British soldiers who fought against the colonists in the American Revolution; so called because of their bright red uniforms

• The Fighting British

• Redcoats

• Patriots

A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord

• Philadelphia Meeting

• Lexington and Concord Meeting

• Second Continental Congress

The army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to defen the American colonies from Britain

• British Army

• Colony Army

• Continental Army

Revolutionary War hero and Patriot leader, he served as a representative to the Continental Congresses, commanded the Continental army, and was unanimously elected to two terms as president of the United States.

• Ben Franklin

• George Washington

• Donald Trump

A Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British Army

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• The Boston Battle

• The Revolutionary War