American Revolution Unit Test

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

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Tea Act
• Townshend Act

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• Transportation
• Relaxation
• Representation
• Sensation

This event broke tensions between the colonist and the British troops where shots were fired. 5 people were killed.

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Bloody Valentine

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

• Loyalist
• Patriot
• Neutral
• British 

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 

To refuse to buy goods from someone as a form of protest . . .

• occupy
• boycott
• damage
• repeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Arguably the first "battle" of the Revolutionary War occurred when the Massachusetts Minutemen fired on British troops at -

• Boston
• Philidelphia
• Saratoga
• Lexington and Concord

The colonists had no voice in parliament where new laws and taxes were developed and imposed on the colonies. As a result, the colonists began to use the slogan "______________!"

• No more king
• No taxation without representation 
• the shot heard 'round the world
• It is so unfair

It took 17 days to write the Declaration of Independence. Who wrote it? 

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

On what day was the Declaration of Independence adopted? 

• January 1, 1776
• July 4, 1776
• June 4, 1776
• None of the answers