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A disagreement between the British and French over land along the Ohio River resulted in the __________
a) French and Indian War
b) American Revolution
c) Battle of Saratoga
d) Boston Tea Party
During the French and Indian War,
a) the French defeated the Native Americans and gained new land.
b) John Paul Jones defeated the French.
c) the British defeated the French and gained new land.
d) the Native Americans were allies with the colonists.
______________ rode through Massachusetts towns warning people that the British army was marching to Concord.
a) Sam Adams
b) Paul Revere
c) Patrick Henry
d) George Washington
Some people who resisted the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods called themselves _________________.
a) redcoats
) Minutemen
c) immigrants
d) the Sons of Liberty
___________ was an African American man killed in the Boston Massacre.
a) Paul Revere
b) John Hancock
c) Crispus Attucks
d) Sam Adams
The American Revolution ended with the _________.
a) British surrender at Yorktown.
b) American victory at Saratoga.
c) signing of the Declaration of Independence.
d) British victory at Charleston, South Carolina
Colonists organized the Boston Tea Party to stop _________________.
a) Parliament from passing the Tea Act.
b) Dutch merchants from smuggling tea.
c) British tea from being delivered to the colony.
d) Parliament from increasing the price of British tea.
The laws that took away Massachusetts’s self-government, appointed a military governor for the colony, and required colonists to house British soldiers were part of the _________________.
a) Stamp Act
b) Proclamation of 1763
c) Townshend Acts
d) Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress issued ________________ to the British government, stating that colonists were entitled to the rights of Englishmen.
a) the Stamp Act
b) a Declaration of Rights
c) the Tea Act
d) the Constitution
The first shot of the American Revolution, also known as “the shot heard round the world,” was fired at the Battle of_______________.
a) Bunker Hill
b) Brooklyn
c) Lexington
d) Trenton
The Continental Army lost almost half its men during the winter it spent camped at __________________.
a) Valley Forge
b) Yorktown
c) New York
d) Philadelphia
_______________ convinced many of its readers that America should break away from England.
a) Poor Richard’s Almanack
b) The Declaration of Rights
c) The French and Indian War
d) Common Sense
The main author of the Declaration of Independence was _________________.
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) George Washington
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Thomas Paine
The woman who dressed in men’s clothing and joined the Continental Army was _____________________.
a) Deborah Sampson
b) Molly Pitcher
c) Mary Hayes
d) Abigail Adams
Washington won his first great victory at ____________.
a) Princeton
b) Trenton
c) Saratoga
d) Yorktown
Which individual was a great hero of the American navy?
a) Benedict Arnold
b) John Burgoyne
c) John Paul Jones
d) Marquis de Lafayette
Which individual helped train American soldiers at Valley Forge?
a) Marquis de Lafayette
b) Baron von Steuben
c) John Paul Jones
d) General Rochambeau
the idea that American colonists did not have a say in the English Parliament, which enacted taxes without their consent.
“taxation without representation”
a person living in the colonies who did not support the American cause and remained loyal to Great Britain
Loyalist
a person who supported the cause of the colonists during the American Revolution
Patriot
breaking the rules on purpose
defiant
a soldier from one country paid to fight for another country
mercenary
disloyalty to a country by helping an enemy
treason
a large amount of something being stored for future use
stockpile
in short supply; not having enough
scarce