American Revolution

In the ________________, the French and the British fought over the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Civil War

• Battle of Gettysburg

• French and Indian War

• Battle of Yorktown

The turning point in the American Revolution was the ____________, where the Americans used the woods and high bluffs to their advantage.

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Gettysburg

____________ wrote the Declaration of Independence to respond to the tyranny of the King.

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

During the ____________, colonists threw stones and snowballs at British soldiers, and British soldiers fired into the crowd.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Yorktown

• Townshend Acts

During this historical event, the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Saratoga

• Boston Tea Party

• Declaration of Independence

The _______________ forced the colonists to pay for a stamp for almost every paper document they bought.

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

The _______________ was a secret group that formed to protest the Stamp Act and other unfair taxes.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

____________ was the leader of England during the American Revolution.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• King George III

• Benjamin Franklin

The ___________________ prevented the colonists from settling in the land west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.

• Tea Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Battle of Lexington

A ________________ is a person chosen or elected to express the thoughts and opinions of a bigger group.

• Parliament

• tax

• representative

• Sugar Act