Chains 1-5 Vocab & Historical Background

The American colonists fighting for the revolution were called...

highly infectious disease known for the small pocks that formed on the patient's skin;

• chicken bumps

• smallpocks

• covid

• gentry

walkway onto and off of a ship

• gangplank

• will

• livery

• hatchway

The Revolutionary War started in this year...

• 1770

• 1783

• 1781

• 1775

Colonists fighting FOR Britain were called...

The Revolutionary War officially ended in which year?

Answer explanation

The War ended officially with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The fighting ended before in 1781.

a legal document in which a person states who should receive their possessions after they die

• Providence

• Gentry

• Will

• The Stamp Act

a supreme ruler; someone with political authority.

• gangplank

• gentry

• sovereign

• providence

willing to do what someone tells you to do or to follow a law, rule, etc.

• cahoots

• obedience

• insolence

• tory

rude or impolite : having or showing a lack of respect for other people

• obedience

• insolence

• will

• loyalists