American Revolution Quiz

After the French and Indian War, Great Britain was in great________________.

• turmoil

• debt

• depression

• reconstruction

One way that Great Britain decided they would help get out of debt was to make the American colonists pay ___________.

• debts

• salaries

• taxes

• stamps

This forced colonists to house and feed thousands of British troops.

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Quartering Act

This forced colonists to pay a tax on printed papers.

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Sugars Act

• Quartering Act

This was the fight between angry colonists and British soldiers in which 5 Americans were killed.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Continental Congress

• Valley Forge

This was when the colonists dressed as American Indians and threw tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Massacre

• Bunker Hill

• Yorktown

• Boston Tea Party

Thomas Jefferson wrote a document that told why the colonies should no longer be under British rule.

• Constitution

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

These people were Patriot volunteers who were paid and trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice.

• Militia

• Minutemen

• soldiers

• redcoats

The first "battle" of the American Revolution was at these two towns:

• Lexington & Louisville

• Boston & Concord

• Lexington & Concord

• Bunker Hill & Yorktown

This was the first major battle and showed that America would not be easy to defeat.

• Trenton

• Valley Forge

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill