American Revolution review

Which of the following reasons led to the outbreak of the American Revolution? Select the correct answer.

• Colonists did not feel they should be taxed for the French and Indian War debt.

• Colonists wanted to expand their fur trade and Great Britain was in the way

• Colonists wanted limitations set on religious freedom in the colonies

• Colonists were NOT angry by the acts and taxes imposed on them without their consent

Which geographic feature is the boundary for the Proclamation of 1763?

• Boston Harbor

• Mississippi River

• Great Lakes

• Appalachian Mountains

As late as 1775, many colonists were still reluctant to cut ties with Great Britain. Which of the following events helped convince colonists that freedom was the best option?

• Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense

• King George’s acceptance of the Olive Branch Petition

• The passage of the Intolerable Acts by Parliament

• The British defeat of the colonists at the Battle of Bunker Hill

“There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between his Brittanic Majesty and the said States… all Hostilities both by Sea and Land shall from henceforth cease: All prisoners on both Sides shall be set at Liberty.”

This excerpt would be found in which historical document?

• Common Sense

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

Although the illustration is the most famous depiction from the night of March 5, 1775, one important patriot was purposely left out. Who is the forgotten victim?

• Sam Adams

• King George III

• Crispus Attucks

• Wentworth Cheswell

Discouraged colonies from producing manufactured goods • Encouraged colonies to buy from their mother country • Increased the wealth of the mother country • Colonial trade with other countries was restricted

• Lack of representation

• Quartering of soldiers

• Mercantilism

• Propaganda

What significant colonial document was written by Thomas Jefferson

• Declaration of Independence

• Poor Richard’s Almanac

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• The Crisis

Dear Old Friend… Do you recall your memorable speech the day the vote was taken? Do you recall the…awful [stressful] silence which pervaded the house when we were called up… to subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants? -Benjamin Rush, 1811 Letters of Benjamin Rush, Volume II, L.H. Butterfield, ed. (Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1951)

The above quote depicts patriots’ commitment to liberty by -

• signing the Articles of Confederation

• enlisting to fight at the Battle of Saratoga

• signing the Declaration of Independence

• surrendering to the British at Yorktown

What are unalienable rights

In 1777, Wentworth Cheswell participated in a battle in upstate New York. After this victory, the French decided to aid the colonists which caused a TURNING POINT in favor of the Americans during the Revolutionary War. - William C. Nell, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

• Yorktown

• Saratoga

• Trenton

• Concord