CUA 3 review

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• The colonists boycotted British goods.

• The colonists destroyed shipments of tea.

• The colonists were taxed to pay the war debt.

• The colonists declared independence from Great Britain.

Read the list of acts passed by Parliament:

Sugar Act 

Quartering Act 

Stamp Act 

These laws led to the American Revolution because they  __________.

• violated the rights of colonists

• fined colonists for breaking the law

• limited colonial expansion westward

• restricted colonial trade with the French

Paul Revere created this engraving most likely to __________.

• provoke anger against British soldiers

• depict the Boston Massacre accurately

• honor those who died during the fighting

• encourage colonists to follow British laws

What did this event represent to many colonists?

• support for loyalty to Great Britain

• resistance against foreign merchants

• opposition to unfair laws and taxes

• desire for trade with American Indians

The Sons of Liberty were responsible for organizing which of the following events?

• Boston Tea Party

• French and Indian War

• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress

What did this image represent to many American colonists?

• the realities of the war

• the need for colonial unity

• the threat of British invasion

• the desire to expand westward

Read the passage:

“But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.”

Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

How did Thomas Paine view the British king, according to this passage?

• as a tyrant

• as kind and wise

• as an exporter

• as a weak leader

Which of the following is true about Samuel Adams? Choose all that apply.

• He started the Sons of Liberty.

• He organized the Boston Tea Party.

• He explored the Louisiana Purchase.

• He participated in the Continental Congress.

Who was involved in writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence? Choose all that apply.

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Read the passage. 

“Yankee Doodle came to town,

For to buy a firelock,

We will tar and feather him,

And so we will John Hancock.”

This verse of the song Yankee Doodle was sung by British troops to __________.

• anger the colonists

• support the colonists

• entertain the colonists

• make fun of the colonists