5th Grade: Chapter 4: American Independence

What is the British national legislature that makes the laws and discusses issues of the country?

• Parliament

• Patriots

• Mercenary

• Pacifism

What is the belief that disputes should be resolved peacefully without war?

• boycott

• pacifism

• mercenary

• Patriots

What is the act of refusing to use, buy, or deal with a store, company, or organization in order to express a protest?

• Patriots

• pacifism

• mercenary

• boycott

Who are colonists who trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice?

• pacifism

• Patriots

• minuteman

• boycott

Which battle was over a hill that could house cannons?

• Fort Duquesne

• Lexington Hill

• Yorktown Hill

• Bunker Hill

Who is a soldier who is hired to fight for a foreign country?

• mercenary

• minuteman

• Parliament

• Patriots

Who were the colonists who actively opposed the British government taxes?

• mercenary

• Patriots

• pacifism

• Parliament

What was a military post where British General Braddock and many of his soldiers were killed in an ambush during the French and Indian War?

• Fort Duquesne

• Bunker Hill

• mercenary

• Patriots

Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter ______ the British troops.

• killed

• invaded

• helped

• harassed

What was the turning point of the Revolutionary War?

• American victory at Battle of Yorktown

• American victory at Lexington

• American victory at Saratoga.

• American victory at Bunker Hill