Unit 2 Quiz

Protest group that was formed in the colonies after the Stamp Act. Were responsible for organizing the Boston Tea Party.

• British Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

Which cause of the Revolution involved the British forbidding colonists from going west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Intolerable/Coercive Acts

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

Which cause of the Revolutionary War included the colonists being directly taxed for the first time?

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Proclamation of 1763

Group created by the Sons of Liberty to spread news through the colonies quickly.

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

• Daughters of Liberty

• U.S. Postal Service

War between France and Great Britain. Outcome of the war caused the British to tax the colonists directly for the first time.

• French and Indian War

• War of 1812

• King Philip's War

• Revolutionary War

What British Act involved closing the Boston Harbor as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party as well as forcing colonists to quarter British soldiers in their homes?

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Proclamation of 1763

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage colonists to support independence from Great Britain.

• Independent Think

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• America Now

Main writer of the Declaration of Independence.

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

Which battle is pictured?

• Yorktown

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

• Trenton

In which battle did the Continental Army gain their first major win on Christmas Day using a sneak attack?

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Yorktown