American Revolution

A disagreement between the British and French over land along the Ohio River resulted in the

• French and Indian War
• American Revolution
• Battle of Saratoga
• Boston Tea Party

During the French and Indian War

• the French defeated the Native Americans and gained new land.
• John Paul Jones defeated the French.
• the British defeated the French and gained new land.
• the Native Americans were allies with the colonists.

________________________rode through Massachusetts towns warning people that the British army was marching to Concord.

• Sam Adams
• Paul Revere
• Patrick Henry
• George Washington

Some people who resisted the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods called themselves_____________________.

• redcoats
• minutemen
• immigrants
• the Sons of Liberty

________________was an African American man killed in the Boston Massacre.

• Paul Revere
• John Hancock
• Crispus Atticus
• Sam Adams

The American Revolution ended with the

• British surrender at Yorktown
• American victory at Saratoga.
• signing the Declaration of Independence
• British victory at Charleston, South Carolina.

Colonists organized the Boston Tea Party to stop

• Parliament from passing the Tea Tax
• Dutch merchants from smuggling tea.
• British tea from being delivered to the colony.
• Parliament from increasing the price of British tea.

The laws that took away the Massachusetts self-government, appointed a military governor for the colony, and required colonists to house British Soldiers were part of the

• the Stamp Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Towshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts

The First Continental Congress issued ___________to the British government, stating that colonists were entitled to the rights of Englishmen.

• the Stamp Act
• the Declaration of Rights
• the Tea Act
• the Constitution

The first shot of the American Revolution, also known as "the shot heard round the world," was fired at the battle of ______________________________________

• Bunker Hill

• Brooklyn

• Lexington

• Trenton