STAAR REVIEW - American Revolution

In 1776, who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are examples of...

• Bill of Rights

• state's rights

• unalienable rights

After the Battle of Yorktown (1781), which treaty gave the U.S. independence from Great Britain?

• Ghent

• Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Paris

During the Revolutionary Era, why did Parliament pass taxes (acts)?

• pay for the debt after the French and Indian War

• pay for the debt after the War of 1812

• pay for the debt after the Mexican-American War

• pay for the debt after the Civil War

Turning point of the Revolutionary War.

• Lexington/Concord

• Valley Forge

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

General Washington's winter camp where his troops battled disease, hunger, fatigue and the weather elements.

• Lexington, Massachusetts

• Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

• Saratoga, New York

• Appomatoxx Court House, Virginia

*Sugar Act
*Quartering Act
*Stamp Act
These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by...

• Restricting colonial trade with American Indians
• Imposing regulations on colonial agriculture.
• Angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated.
• Punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament. 

Which of the following best completes this diagram below?

• Colonists sought military support from France.

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

These below acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by —

• restricting colonial trade with American Indians.

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture.

• angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated.

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament.

The excerpt below reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the —

• political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening.

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain following the French and Indian War.