The American Revolution

What was the final insult that led to the First Continental Congress?

• More taxes
• Closing the port of New York
• The Boston Massacre
• Closing the port of Boston

The First Continental Congress produced...

• plantation systems
• colonial militias to prepare for war
• Continental Army
• Declaration of Independence

Early revolutionary battle where 1,000 British troops died and realized the American Colonists were tougher than they though.

• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Yorktown

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

• Patriot
• Loyalist
• Yes man
• Neutral

The Second Continental Congress addressed the steps to the colonies governing themselves and the creation of what military group?

• Colonial militias
• Marines
• Continental Army
• Navy

Who was the first choice to command the Continental Army?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Paine
• George Washington

This type of colonist was ready for rebellion and the fight for independence.

• Loyalist
• Patriot
• Neutral
• British 

Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation line of 1763
• Proclamation boundary
• Manifest Destiny
• Borderlands

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

Given that only 5 people died in the Boston Massacre, why was it labeled a massacre?

•  British commanders ordered troops to shoot into a rioting crowd in effort to restore order
• the victims were innocent bystanders who were caught in the barrage of gunfire
•  the victims had done little to provoke the confrontational and hostile British troops
• Boston radicals used it as propaganda to take advantage of the heightened tensions