US History Chapter 4 Exam

a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority in British government

• Patriots

• minutemen

• mercenaries

• First Continental Congress

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

• minutemen

• Patriots

• Redcoats

• Loyalists

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

• Redcoats

• mercenaries

• Second Continental Congress

• minutemen

British soldiers who fought against the colonist in the American Revolution that wore bright red uniforms

• Redcoats

• minutemen

• Patriots

• Loyalists

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

• Redcoats

• mercenaries

• Continental Army

• Patriots

a Virginian selected to command the Continental Army

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• George Rogers Clark

a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonist could fight well against the British Army

• Battle of Saratoga

• Continental Army

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Trenton

a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonist of the need to break away from Britain

• Break Away from Britain

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• Treaty of Paris of 1783

author of Common Sense

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Paul Jones

• George Rogers Clark

• Thomas Paine

the document written to declare the colonies free from British rule

• Treaty of Paris

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• American Justice