The American Revolution

Match the following

• an alliance of independent groups

• confederation

• a forced change of government

• sovereign

• ruling ufairly with lack of care

• revolution

• a booklet

• tyranny

• a supreme ruler

• pamphlet

Match the following

• freedom that every person is entitled to

• loyalists

• a suggestion for a law or action

• unalienable rights

• loyal to the cause of independance

• grievance

• an injustice; cause for a complaint

• patriot

• someone loyal to the Brittish government

• resolution

Match the following

• individuals who fight the Brittish

• decisive

• critical or conclusive decision

• siege

• a type of gun from colonial times

• mercenary

• surrounding an army taking control

• privateers

• a professional soldier hired to serve

• musket

Match the following

• people who wanted a strong central gov.

• federalists

• mighty

• amity

• extra troops sent to strengthen an army

• reinforcements

• friendship

• formidable

• unimportant

• trifling

What was NOT a purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• to explain the rights of all people

• to list grievances against the king

• to describe the purpose of government

• to form a system of checks and balances

True or False: The first constitution of the United States was called the Articles of Confederation.

• True

• False

Who were members of the committee of five?

• John Lind

• John Adams

• John Hancock

• Roger Sherman

• Thomas Hutchinson

King George III hired​ (a)   to respond to the Declaration of Independence.

• John Lind
• Lord Cornwallis
• Frederick North
• Thomas Hutchinson

The​ (a)   were treated with suspicion by both the Patriots and teh Loyalists because they remained neutral during the war.

• Quakers
• Enslaved peoples
• Southerners

How did the British encourage Black enslaved people to leave their Patriot enslavers?

• by promising them freedom

• by giving them land in England

• by protecting their escape routes

• by offering to return them to Africa