American Revolution Test review

Why is 1776 important for the colonists?

• Approved the Bill of Rights

• Declared Independence

• Created Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact was signed

Thomas Paine

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Sold Tea

• Was a tax collector

• Wrote Common Sense to encourage Independence

Marquis de LaFayette

• French Officer who fought against the British in the American Revolution

• French Officer during the French and Indian War

• French Officer who fought against the Americans

• American Officer with a French name

Crispus Attucks

• Died at the Boston Massacre

• Protested the Tea Act

• Was a loyalist

• Member of the Sons of Liberty

Loyalists

• Favored independence

• Disliked the king

• opposed independence

• Agreed with the Patriot cause

What was the 1st Battle of the revolution that the British had plans of destroying a storehouse of weapons?

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Yorktown

• Winter at Valley Forge

The French and Indian War caused the monarch of England to

• give up claims in the colonies

• enact taxes on colonists without their representation

• stay out of debt

• let colonists settle the Ohio River Valley

Who is the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Abigail Adams

• George Washington

Which of the following groups of words best connect to the Declaration of Independence

• The Mayflower Compact and the English Bill of Rights

• Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson, document written

• Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, Valley Forge

• Quakers, Pilgrims, Catholics

Why did the colonists hate the Proclamation Line of 1763

• They feared native American Attacks

• They did not want to share fur with the French

• They did not like the restriction on expansion to the West to settle the Ohio River Valley

• They did not like mercantilism