8.4C Battles/Events of the American Revolution

Early revolutionary battle where 1,000 British troops died and realized the American Colonists were tougher than they though.

• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Yorktown

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

• Patriot
• Loyalist
• Yes man
• Neutral

The Second Continental Congress addressed the steps to the colonies governing themselves and the creation of what military group?

• Colonial militias
• Marines
• Continental Army
• Navy

This type of colonist was ready for rebellion and the fight for independence.

• Loyalist
• Patriot
• Neutral
• British 

Arguably the first "battle" of the Revolutionary War occurred when the Massachusetts Minutemen fired on British troops at -

• Boston
• Philidelphia
• Saratoga
• Lexington and Concord

In 1774 delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met to discuss the problems the colonies were having with England. This was called ____________. 

• Boston Tea Party
• First Continental Congress
• Parliament
• None of the answers 

A year after the First Continental Congress, representatives met in Philadelphia again. What did they discuss? 

• becoming an independent nation
• breaking away from England
• writing a document that declared the colonies Independent 
• All of the answers 

The Declaration of Independence was a way for the colonists to respond to the tyranny and abuse of power by King George III. 

• True
• False

What caused the first battle of the American Revolution? 

• British were looking to seize a storehouse of weapons that belonged to the colonists, but met the Minutemen instead. 
• The British fired on the Sons of Liberty as they dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. 
• The colonists shot British soldiers bringing tea into the Boston Harbor.  
• None of the Answers 

The American Troops defeated the British in New York during the  _____________ in the fall of 1777. 

• Boston Massacre
• Battle of Lexington
• Battle of Saratoga
• None of the answers