Revolution Test Review

Which of the following battles is considered a turning point for the Americans in the Revolutionary War?

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Lexington

• Battle of Trenton

Answer explanation

THE S..... IT TURNSSSSSSS this is the turning point and the revolution and when France decides to help America defeat England

Thomas Paine contributed to the revolutionary cause by —

• founding a navy to fight in the Revolutionary war

• writing “Common Sense” to persuade others to join the Patriots

• speaking out against the Stamp Act in his “Give Me Liberty” speech

• recruiting Patriot fighters in New England known as the Green Mountain Boys

Answer explanation

Thomas PP PAINEEEE.... PP = Paine and Pamphlet.... He basically was trying to convince other colonists to break up with England...

What major era in U.S. history is referred to in the graphic?

• Colonial

• Civil War

• Revolutionary

• Reconstruction

Which of the following is the correct sequence of events leading to the American Revolution?

• Stamp Act / Boston Tea Party / Townsend Acts / Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party / Townsend Acts / Intolerable Acts / Stamp Act

• Stamp Act / Townsend Acts / Boston Tea Party / Intolerable Acts

• Townsend Acts / Intolerable Acts / Stamp Act / Boston Tea Party

Which of following best completes the list of grievances from the Declaration of Independence?

• Agreeing to the Treaty of Paris, 1763

• Failing to protect the colonies from foreign attacks

• Imposing taxes without the consent of the colonies

• Censoring colonial newspapers

Answer explanation

Colonists are most angry at taxation without representation in parliament. This was one of their main grievenaces (complaints) in the declaration of independence.

Based on the information in the excerpt the colonists had been violating what British policy for some time?

• Stamp Act

• Mercantilism

• Free enterprise

• Intolerable Acts

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to tensions between colonists and Great Britain?

• It imposed taxes without colonial representation in Parliament.

• It required all colonial goods to be sold directly to Great Britain.

• It limited colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains

• It replaced colonial legislatures with royal governors chosen by the King

Answer explanation

YOU SHALL NOT PASSSSSSS (the appalachian Mountains)

Which of the following British actions led the American colonists to claim that taxes were imposed without their consent?

• Passage of the Stamp Act

• Creation of the Intolerable Acts

• Administration of the Quebec Act

• Enforcement of the Quartering Act

Answer explanation

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BRUH

The British imposed taxes on the colonists to help pay the expenses of fighting the —

• Spanish Armada

• American Revolution

• American Indian tribes

• French and Indian War

In the Declaration of Independence, unalienable rights are listed as ―

• life, liberty and property

• life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

• the freedom from fear, want, and tyranny

• the freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and petition

Answer explanation

Natural rights = life liberty property(these are things god gave to me)

Unalienable rights = life liberty pursuit of happiness.....

QUIT PLAYING WITH ME FAM CUZ BRO BRUH