Social Studies
Chapter 9: The
Revolutionary War
Vocabulary
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Lesson 3
Lesson 4
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Vocab 100
Question: Colonists who
supported independence.
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Vocab 100
Answer: WHAT IS A
PATRIOT
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Vocab 200
Question: A rise in the price
of all goods.
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Vocab 200
Answer: WHAT IS
INFLATION
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Vocab 300
Question: Farmers and
shopkeepers who charged
extra-high prices for their
crops or goods.
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Vocab 300
Answer: WHAT IS A
PROFITEER
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Vocab 400
Question: Hired soldiers for
the British army.
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Vocab 400
Answer: WHAT ARE
MERCENARIES
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Vocab 500
Question: Someone who is
against slavery.
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Vocab 500
Answer: WHAT IS AN
ABOLITIONIST
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Lesson 1 100
Question: A colonist who
remained loyal to the king was
called this.
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Lesson 1 100
Answer: WHAT IS A
LOYALIST
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Lesson 1 200
Question: This caused
shortages of goods in the
colonies during the
American Revolution.
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Lesson 1 200
Answer: WHAT IS BRITISH
BLOCKADES AT AMERICAN
PORTS
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Lesson 1 300
Question: This was the main
reason that enslaved African
Americans fought in the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 1 300
Answer: WHAT IS BEING
PROMISED THEIR FREEDOM
IN RETURN
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Lesson 1 400
Question: The side that the
Native Americans groups
chose during the Revolutionary
War.
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Lesson 1 400
Answer: WHAT IS VARIED.
SOME GROUPS CHOSE A
SIDE WHILE OTHERS
REMAINED NEUTRAL
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Lesson 1 500
Question: Women contributed
to the war effort during the
American Revolution by doing
these 5 things.
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Lesson 1 500
Answer: WHAT IS FIGHTING,
BRINGING WATER AND
SUPPLIES, RUNNING FARMS
AND BUSINESSES, RAISING
MONEY, AND WRITING ABOUT
THE WAR
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Lesson 2 100
Question: The country that
supported the Americans
during the Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 2 100
Answer: WHAT IS FRANCE
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Lesson 2 200
Question: The French
contributed these three
things to the Revolutionary
War.
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Lesson 2 200
Answer: WHAT IS
SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, AND
SHIPS
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Lesson 2 300
Question: This battle was the
turning point of the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 2 300
Answer: WHAT IS THE
BATTLE OF SARATOGA
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Lesson 2 400
Question: The person who
taught the American troops
better ways to march and
fight at Valley Forge.
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Lesson 2 400
Answer: WHO IS
FRIEDRICH WILHELM
VON STEUBEN
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Lesson 2 500
Question: Valley Forge’s
location was important to
George Washington because of
this.
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Lesson 2 500
Answer: WHAT IS BEING
CLOSE TO PHILADELPHIA
AND KEEPING WATCH ON
THE BRITISH
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Lesson 3 100
Question: This is where the
British hoped to finally defeat
the colonists.
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Lesson 3 100
Answer: WHAT IS THE
SOUTHERN COLONIES
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Lesson 3 200
Question: This document
officially ended the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 3 200
Answer: WHAT IS THE
TREATY OF PARIS
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Lesson 3 300
Question: The reason why
Yorktown’s location helped the
Americans and the French.
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Lesson 3 300
Answer: WHAT IS EASY
FOR THE AMERICANS AND
THE FRENCH TO CIRCLE
AROUND THE BRITISH
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Lesson 3 400
Question: Mary McCauley, or
Molly Pitcher, took part in the
Battle of Monmouth because
of this.
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Lesson 3 400
Answer: WHAT IS HER
HUSBAND WAS WOUNDED
DURING BATTLE
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Lesson 3 500
Question: This is why the
Americans won the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 3 500
Answer: WHAT IS THE FRENCH
NAVY TOOK CONTROL OF
CHESAPEAKE BAY WHILE THE
FRENCH AND AMERICAN
SOLDIERS ENCIRCLED
YORKTOWN, LEAVING GENERAL
CORNWALLIS TRAPPED
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Lesson 4 100
Question: A plan for
governing the Northwest
Territory and for forming
new states in that region
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Lesson 4 100
Answer: WHAT IS THE
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Lesson 4 200
Question: In this document
the Native Americans gave up
most of their land in the
Northwest Territory, were
angry with the United States,
and stopped trusting the
government.
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Lesson 4 200
Answer: WHAT IS THE
TREATY OF GREENVILLE
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Lesson 4 300
Question: This is how
Congress paid some soldiers
for their service in the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 4 300
Answer: WHAT IS WITH
LAND
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Lesson 4 400
Question: A territory is
different than a state because
of this.
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Lesson 4 400
Answer: WHAT IS NOT
REPRESENTED IN THE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
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Lesson 4 500
Question: The right
expressed in the Declaration
of Independence that
affected how people viewed
slavery after the
Revolutionary War.
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Lesson 4 500
Answer: WHAT IS THE
RIGHT TO LIFE AND
LIBERTY
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