Colonial America Quiz

Samuel Adams helped found the __________________________ which shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

The __________________________ required colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal, whenever they bought paper items.

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

List at least 3 effects the Intolerable acts had on the colonists.

• Closed Boston Harbor, reduced self-government, increased British troops

• Increased trade with Britain, expanded colonial rights, reduced taxes

• Established new colonial governments, promoted local trade, reduced military presence

• Encouraged colonial independence, improved relations with Native Americans, increased local governance

What did Thomas Paine write to encourage colonists to declare independence?

• The Federalist Papers

• Common Sense

• The Rights of Man

• The Wealth of Nations

What group of colonists faced hostility because they sided with the British?

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Sons of Liberty

Colonists who stayed loyal to Great Britain were known as what?

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Rebels

• Minutemen

In the ____________________________, the Patriots crossed the Delaware River in a successful surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries.

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Lexington

____________________________ are foreign soldiers who are paid to fight.

• Mercenaries

• Militia

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Volunteers

The British surrendered at the Battle of ____________________________.

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington

Peace talks between Great Britain and America took ____________________ to reach an agreement.

• two days

• two years

• two months

• two weeks