American Revolution

Many contributed to the revolutionary cause. The first to give his life to the cause was

• James Armistead
• Bernardo de Galvez
• Crispus Attucks
• Haym Salomon

Which of the following is the correct sequence of events leading to the American Revolution?

• stamp act, boston tea party, townsend acts, intolerable acts
• boston tea party, townsend acts, intolerable acts, stamp act
• stamp act, townsend acts, boston tea party, intolerable acts
• townsend acts, intolerable acts, stamp act, boston tea party

British imposed taxes on the colonists to help pay the expenses of fighting the

• spanish armade
• American Indian tribes
• American Revolution
• French and Indian War

Why would the writings of Mercy Otis Warren be informative to a historian?

• she recorded the proceedings at the boston massacre trial
• she wrote one of the earliest histories about the Rev. war
• she contributed to the writing of the declaration of indep.
• she was the 1st american woman to publish a novel

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to tensions between colonists and Great Britain?

• imposed taxes without colonial representation in parliament
• limited colonial expansion beyond Appalachian Mountains
• required all colonial goods to be sold to great britain
• replaced colonial legislatures with royal governors

Where were the first shots fired of the Revolutionary War?

• Lexington
• Plymouth
• Saratoga
• Boston

How did French aristocrat, Marquis de Lafayette, contribute to the American Revolutionary War

• he spied on British troops for the colonists
• he commanded troops for the colonists against British forces
• he negotiated the Treaty of Paris on behalf of the colonists
• provided funding from the French government for the colonist

James Armistead helped to contribute to the American victory at Yorktown-

• leading an elite regiment of French soldiers
• passing along information he had discovered while spying
• encouraging soldiers to re-enlist after Valley Forge
• donating amounts of money to help fund the Patriots

The treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized that the newly formed US would be....

• a constitutional monarchy
• independent from British rule
• an ally of the French government
• granted British holdings in Canada

Thomas Paine contributed to the revolutionary cause by-

• founding a navy to fight in the Revolutionary War
• writing Common Sense to persuade others to join the Patriots
• speaking against the Stamp Act in his Give me Liberty speech
• recruiting Patriot fighters in New England aka Green Mt.