American Revolution Test

Question 1

Thomas Jefferson suggested that each colony create one of these to unify colonial response to British actions

Answer 1

Committee of Correspondence

Question 2

Written by Thomas Paine, it suggested staying under British rule was bad for the colonies, they did not owe allegiance to Britain and the monarchy was wrong

Answer 2

Common Sense

Question 3

The British punished Massachusetts by limiting colonists’ right to call town meetings because of what?

Answer 3

Boston Tea Party

Question 4

Which enlightenment thinker’s idea of social construct was used in the formation of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 4

John Locke

Question 5

What signaled the start of the American Revolution?

Answer 5

Lexington & Concord

Question 6

Who retreated to the Yorktown Peninsula to protect supply lines, resulting in the defeat of the British?

Answer 6

General Cornwallis

Question 7

What trapped the British army at Yorktown?

Answer 7

a blockade of French warships

Question 8

What prohibited English settlement west of the Appalachians?

Answer 8

Proclamation of 1763

Question 9

What was the document between the British and colonists that ended the Revolutionary War?

Answer 9

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Question 10

What were the effects of the Boston Massacre?

Answer 10

1. Townshend Acts repealed (most of them)
2. Several colonists wounded/killed
3. Beginning of the Revolutionary War

Question 11

What was a major reason for the French fearing the loss of fur trading in the Ohio Valley?

Answer 11

Conflict between Great Britain & France

Question 12

Whose military strategy was based on knowledge of the land and terrain?

Answer 12

the Colonial Army

Question 13

Who represented the soldiers who involved in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 13

John Adams

Question 14

What is considered the turning point of the war?

Answer 14

Saratoga

Question 15

What did Saratoga do for the colonists?

Answer 15

it convinced the French to join the Patriots

Question 16

Why did Parliament raise taxes in the colonies after 1763?

Answer 16

to pay for the French & Indian War

Question 17

What did the Declaration of Independence include?

Answer 17

1. listed King George III’s misdeeds
2. asserted citizen’s rights and declared people’s right to overthrow government

Question 18

What are the different parts of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 18

1. Preamble
2. Natural Rights
3. Wrongdoings by the king (Grievances)
4. Independence

Question 19

What event was investigated by colonists throwing “snowballs” at British soldiers?

Answer 19

the Boston Massacre

Question 20

What were created as a result of the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 20

the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts with the Quebec Act)

Question 21

What did Coercive Acts include?

Answer 21

1. Boston Port Act
2. Massachusetts Government Act
3. Administration of Justice Act -
4. Quartering Act

Question 22

What did the Boston Port Act do?

Answer 22

closed all ports

Question 23

What did the Massachusetts Government Act do?

Answer 23

appointed government officials

Question 24

What did the Administration of Justice Act do?

Answer 24

ensured fair trial for British soldiers back in England

Question 25

What did the Quartering Act do?

Answer 25

required colonists to give up their homes to British soldiers

Question 26

Which exchange of fire was the result of the British trying to steal a colonial arsenal?

Answer 26

Battle of Lexington & Concord

Question 27

The French navy blockaded Chesapeake Bay causing this.

Answer 27

British surrender

Question 28

Strategy used by the colonists to resist British military tactics.

Answer 28

Guerilla warfare

Question 29

Who was the Declaration of Independence SPECIFICALLY directed towards?

Answer 29

King George III

Question 30

Life and liberty are references to what?

Answer 30

Natural Rights (John Locke)

Question 31

This idea was featured in both the Declaration and the Treaty of Paris

Answer 31

independence

Question 32

Which Enlightenment principle was the basis of the Declaration?

Answer 32

natural rights

Question 33

Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 33

Thomas Jefferson

Question 34

What were colonial militia in Massachusetts called?

Answer 34

minutemen

Question 35

Who were the mercenaries ambushed at the Battle of Trenton?

Answer 35

Hessians

Question 36

What was the first event of the American Revolution?

Answer 36

Boston Massacre

Question 37

Who was the president of the Continental Congress?

Answer 37

John Hancock

Question 38

What was the relevance of Benedict Arnold?

Answer 38

he was a spy for the British

Question 39

Who said, "Liberty, or death!"?

Answer 39

Patrick Henry

Question 40

Who came to help the Continental Army?

Answer 40

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 41

Who made the first American Flag?

Answer 41

Betsy Ross

Question 42

Who was the leader of the Continental Army?

Answer 42

George Washington

Question 43

Who surrendered to end the war at the Battle of Yorktown?

Answer 43

General Cornwallis

Question 44

"One if by land, tow if by sea" was used for what?

Answer 44

signal of British attack

Question 45

What was the famous winter camp of the Continental Army where many soldier threatened to desert?

Answer 45

Valley Forge

Question 46

What did the Sugar Act (1764) do?

Answer 46

raised taxes on molasses and other sugar products

Question 47

What did the Stamp Act (1765) do?

Answer 47

places taxes on legal documents (wills, diplomas, marriage papers), goods made of paper (newspapers, cards)

Question 48

What did the Writs of Assistance do?

Answer 48

allowed customs officers to search any location for evidence of smuggling during the day

Question 49

What were the Townshend Acts?

Answer 49

Suspending Act, the Revenue Act, the Indemnity Act, and the Commissioners of Customs Ac

Question 50

What group was formed to boycott British goods?

Answer 50

Songs of Liberty

Question 51

What did the Revenue Act do?

Answer 51

taxed glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea

Question 52

Who was it that surrendered at the Battle of Saratoga?

Answer 52

British General Burgoyne

Question 53

Which Native American nations sided with the British?

Answer 53

Iroquois and Cherokee

Question 54

What was the western border that the British recognized the Americans with?

Answer 54

the Mississippi