Review Chapter 4 Test

The secret organization in the British colonies that worked to oppose the Stamp Act was the ____.

• Patriots

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalists

• Mercenaries

____ was a Pennsylvania delegate who spent his own money to pay for Washington's soldiers.

• Nathanael Greene

• George Washington

• Robert Morris

• Joseph Brant

___was an American victory that was a turning point of the Revolutionary War.

• Boston Massacre

• Fort Duquesne

• Saratoga

• Delaware River

The river that Washington and his men crossed in December 1776 in order to march against the Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey was the ____.

• Delaware River

• Ohio River

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

List two things the Peace of Paris allowed to happen for United States and France. (This will be a writing question on the test!!)

• The United States gained more benefits than any other nation.

• The British maintained control of the 13 colonies.

• France regained fishing rights off the coast of Canada.

• Cornwallis sent his second-in-command to surrender on October 19, 1781.

A battle over a hill that could house cannons was known as ____.

• Battles at Lexington and Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Saratoga

• Fort Duquesne

The event when a band of angry citizens boarded British ships and threw tea overboard was known as the ____.

• Peace of Paris

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Yorktown

What is true about the victory at Yorktown. (This will be a writing question, you'll have to list 2).

• The British forces were outnumbered.

• Washington and French forces set up artillery outside the British lines.

• Cornwallis sent in his second-in-command to surrender on October 19, 1781.

• It was the last battle of the Revolutionary War.

A document written to define why the Revolutionary War was being fought was the ____.

• Peace of Paris

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Continental Congress

Match the term with the correct description (1 Point Each)

• 
  Patriots

• A group of citizens trained to defend their country.

• 
  Stamp Act

• French nobleman who joined the cause for American independence when he was only nineteen.

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Colonists fighting for more freedom from King George III during the Revolutionary War; also called Whigs.

• militia

• A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required colonists to buy stamps with some purchases.