American History and General Knowledge Quiz

A bill that taxed materials printed in the colonies

A conflict where British soldiers killed five colonists

An event where colonists dressed like Native Americans and threw tea off British ships

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

• Bunker Hill

• Boston Tea Party

Colonial soldiers led by George Washington

• Militiamen

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Continental Army

The place Washington’s troops spent a cold winter and received military training

• Valley Forge

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

• Fayetteville

Announced to the world that the colonies were “free and independent states”

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• The Bible

An American victory that convinced France to help the colonists fight Britain

The city where British troops were surrounded, ending the Revolutionary War

Why did Britain pass the Intolerable Acts after the Boston Tea Party?

• To reward the colonists

• To punish the colonists

• To help the colonists

• To start a new government

What country controlled Florida after the Revolutionary War?

• Spain

• France

• Britain

• America