Unit 5/6: Revolutionary War

By controlling colonial economics and politics, England would _____________

• remain a world power.
• help colonists get their independence.
• prevent the slave trade.
• share power with the Continental Congress.

When England passed the Navigation Act, it wanted to ______________

• monitor ships traveling to European countries.
• make the colonies trade raw goods for manufactured goods from England.
• tell France to stop trading fur in the Ohio Valley.
• tax the colonists.

On the Triangular Trade Route, colonists traded rum for ______________ from West Africa.

• salt and gold
• manufactured goods
• cotton
• slaves

After the French and Indian War, colonists were upset about paying taxes due to their lack of  _______________

• money to pay the taxes.
• representation in Parliament.
• free trade with France and Spain.
• protection against Indian attacks.

Who did the king appoint to govern the colonists and make sure they followed British laws?

• governors
• soldiers
• generals
• judges

Since _____________ made laws for each colony, governors would monitor them.

• town meetings
• Sons of Liberty
• Committees of Correspondence
• legislatures

During the Revolutionary War, who was an enslaved African who wrote poetry?

• Equanio
• Phillis Wheatley
• Martha Washington
• Molly Pitcher

On the night before the Battle of Lexington and Concord, who made a daring ride to warn colonists that the British soldiers had arrived.

• Paul Revere
• John Adams
• Charles Cornwallis
• John Hancock

Which two men helped the Sons of Liberty throw tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes?

• Squanto and Samoset
• George Washington and John Adams
• Samuel Prescott and Ben Franklin
• Paul Revere and Samuel Adams

Which colony did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress?

• Maine
• Georgia
• Massachusetts
• Pennsylvania