CH4 AMERICAN REVOLUTION

People chosen to vote or act for others

• delegates

• militia

• retreated

• signal

Backed away from the enemy because they were losing

• delegates

• militia

• retreated

• signal

Sound or motion that tells someone something

• delegates

• militia

• retreated

• signal

People trained like soldiers

• delegates

• militia

• retreated

• signal

Fifty-six delegates traveled to Philadelphia to discuss the troubles in Massachusetts. This meeting was called the ______.

• Shot Heard Round the World

• Old North Church

• First Continental Congress

• Massachusetts Meeting

______ declared, "I am not a Virginian but an American."

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

Men who were ready to fight at a minute's notice were called _____.

• Minutemen

• Militia

• Troops

• Continental Congress

The first shot at Lexington and Concord is known as _______.

• the 1st Continental Congress

• the shot heard round the world

• Paul Revere's Ride

• Lexington and Concord

A silversmith named, _____, rode through the countryside to warn the colonists that the British soldiers were coming by sea.

• William Dawes

• Samuel Prescott

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry

A ____ is like a sword, and it fits on the end of a musket.

• bayonet

• rifle

• knife

• cannon