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 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

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? Select all answers that apply. (This will be a writing question, you'll have to list 2 things).

• 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)

• 
  Stamp Act

• A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required colonists to buy stamps with some purchases to pay for the stationing of British troops in the colonies.

• Peace of Paris

• A group of citizens trained to defend their country.

• militia

• Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War that gave the U.S. more benefits than any other nation.

Colonists who trained to be ready at a minute's notice were known as ____.

• minutemen

• mercenary

• Hessian

• Patriots

Colonists called the harsh British laws created to coerce, or force, Boston to behave the _____.

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Tax

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts