American Revolutionary War Quiz

In response to colonial protests, Britain passed THIS series of laws designed to punish the colonies, taking away their power of self-government:

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Coercive or Intolerable Acts

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, spoke about the colonies becoming independent from Great Britain.

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Articles of Confederation

• Committees of Correspondence

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it proclaimed the United States as a free state.

• Common Sense

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

The Battles of ____________________ and __________________ sparked the Revolutionary War.

• Lexington; Concord

• Concord; Bunker's Hill

• Lexington; Saratoga

• Concord; Camden

Last major battle in the American Revolution. Nathaneal Greene's army came up from the south, while George Washington’s army came down from the north, and the French navy blocked the harbor by sea. In 1781, this American victory in Virginia that forced the British to surrender

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Charleston

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Trenton

This was a tax on all printed materials in the 13 Colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

Finish this American Colonist Motto, "No Taxation without..."

Why were the American Colonist taxed after the French and Indian War?

• Britain was in debt and needed money

• That was the agreement with the Native Americans

• They made too much money

• Townshend Acts

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Yes man

• Neutral