Study Guide, American Revolution Final

A disagreement between the British and French over land along the Ohio River resulted in the ___________.

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• Battle of Saratoga

During the French and Indian War, __________________.

• the French defeated the Native Americans and gained new land

• the Native Americans were allies with the colonists

• the British defeated the French and gained new land

This person rode through Massachusetts towns warning people that the British army was marching to Concord.

• Sam Adams

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry

Some people who resisted the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods called themselves _________ .

• redcoats

• Minutemen

• the Sons of Liberty

This person was an African American man killed in the Boston Massacre.

• Paul Revere

• Crispus Attucks

• Sam Adams

The American Revolution ended with the _______________.

• British surrender at Yorktown

• signing of the Declaration of Independence

• British victory at Charleston, South Carolina

Colonists organized the Boston Tea Party to stop _______________________.

• Parliament from passing the Tea Act

• Dutch merchants from smuggling tea

• British tea from being delivered to the colony

The laws that took away Massachusetts’s self-government, appointed a military governor for the colony, and required colonists to house British soldiers were part of the __________________________.

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

The First Continental Congress issued this to the British government, stating that colonists were entitled to the rights of Englishmen.

• the Stamp Act

• a Declaration of Rights

• the Constitution

The first shot of the American Revolution, also known as “the shot heard round the world,” was fired at the Battle of ________________________ .

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington

• Trenton