Chapter 5 Worksheet

CHAPTER 5 SECTIONS 2, 3 & 4 WORKSHEET Section 2 1. When was the Boston Massacre? 2. How many people were killed during the Boston Massacre? 3. Who was Crispus Attucks? 4. What is propaganda? 5. What did the Committee of Correspondence do? 6. When was the Boston Tea Party? 7. What group of people were responsible for the Boston Tea Party? 8. What were the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts? (4) A B. C. D. Section 3 9. What is a militia? 10. What were minutemen? 11. What two Patriots alerted the colonists that the British were coming? 12. Why were the British marching to Concord? 13. What two battles are considered the beginning of the Revolution? 14. Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill? 15. What were Colonel Prescott’s famous orders at Bunker Hill? 16. What is a Loyalist? 17. What is a Patriot?

Section 4 18. Who was chosen as president of the Second Continental Congress? 19. Who was chosen to be the army’s commander? 20. What was the Olive Branch Petition? 21. Who wrote “Common Sense”? 22. What was the main idea in “Common Sense”? 23. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence? 24. What are the four main parts of the Declaration of Independence? 25. In what city and what date was the Declaration of Independence formally approved?