Chapter 9 Our American Heritage Comprehension Questions.

Match the following

• a group formed to protect the rights of colonists against Britain

• Raul Revere

• A hero of the American War for Independence who warned that the British were planning an attack

• Sons of Liberty

• an Event where Boston colonists threw shiploads of tea overboard to protest high taxes

• War for Independence

• also known as American Revolution or Revolutionary War

• Minutemen

• Colonists who volunteered to fight at a minute's notice

• Boston Tea Party

Match the following

• the man who rode with Paul Revere to warn cities that the British were coming

• William Dawes

• colonists who wanted to be free from England's rule

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Joined Paul Revere and William Dawes on their ride

• Patriots

• poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride"

• Samuel Prescott

Paul Revere was an apprentice to his father as a _______.

• Silversmith

• Farmer

• army man

Paul Revere joined a group called the _______________ to warn of England's unfair taxes.

• Minute men

• sons of libery

• union

Paul Revere took part in the _____________ where boxes of tea were dumped into the harbor.

• Boston Tea party

• Revolutionary War

• Tea Tax

• Stamp Act

Colonists who were ready to fight at any time were called

• Minute man

• SilverSmith

• Sons of Liberty

Paul Revere traveled on horseback to _____ to warn his friends and fellow patriots that the British were coming.

• Lexington

• Boston

• Philidelphia

Did paul Revere make it all the way to concord? Explain

Who wrote the poem that turned Paul Revere from a local silversmith to an American Folk hero?

• Henry W. Longfellow

• Henry L. Wadsworth

• Henry W. Fellowlong