American Revolution Test

In 1770, the lawyer and future president John Adams defended British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre. How do his actions serve as a model of civic virtue?

• Citizens should allow a court of law to determine justice.

• Citizens should rise up against oppressive government power.

• Citizens should demand representation from a republican government.

• Citizens should develop a profession career that contributes to public service.

When Jefferson referred to unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, he was describing -

• liberties belonging to all US citizens

• natural rights belonging to all humans

• freedoms given by the local government

• limitations on the rights of foreign-born citizens

3. A significant accomplishment of the Second Continental Congress in 1776 was -

• signing the Treaty of Paris

• approving the Bill of Rights

• creating the U.S. Constitution

• writing the Declaration of Independence

What was Paul Revere's purpose for creating this engraving?

• to turn popular opinion against the British

• to force Congress to act against the British

• to use it as evidence in the British soldiers' trial

• to show King George III what the British had done

Thomas Jefferson is shown in this image presenting the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress. Based on this image and what you know about Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, how could this image be summarized?

• Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and presented it to the Continental Congress

• Jefferson received harsh opposition to the Declaration of Independence when presenting it to the Continental Congress

• Jefferson was the only member of the Continental Congress willing to write the Declaration of Independence.

• Jefferson presented the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress, but Benjamin Franklin actually wrote it.

In 1776, the thirteen colonies in North America did which of the following?

• established the United States of America

• ratified the constitution

• ratified the Articles of Confederation

• announced independence from Great Britain

The following acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by

• restricting colonial trade with the American Indians

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• angering colonists who believed the civil liberties had been violated

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

Before the revolution, the British thought it was fair to tax the colonists to help pay the expenses they had run up fighting which of the following?

• Spanish and French

• Spanish and Indians

• French and Indians

• Colonists and Indians

Which best completes the diagram?

• colonists sought military support for France

• colonists organized boycotts of British goods

• colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

• Colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

Where were the first shots of the Revolutionary War fired?

• Lexington

• Plymouth

• Saratoga

• Boston