The Spirit of Independence Review

At the time of the Boston Tea Party, most colonists still considered themselves as British citizens.

• True

• False

The Second Continental Congress chose Thomas Jefferson to command the Continental Army.

• True

• False

Some colonists were Loyalists who sided with Britain; the others were Patriots who supported the right to independence.

• True

• False

Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.

• True

• False

Parliament successfully isolated Boston from the rest of the colonies by passing the Coercive Acts.

• True

• False

Washington and his troops drove the British from New York in March 1776.

• True

• False

The committee of correspondence was a system of letter writing between the colonial governors and the king.

• True

• False

One of the Coercive Acts forced the colonists to allow British soldiers to live among the colonists.

• True

• False

Why were the colonists angry after the Tea Act?

• they wanted Parliament to remove some of the taxes on tea

• they wanted the ships to deliver tea to Boston Harbor

• they wanted to make their own decisions about what tea to buy

• they wanted to purchase East India Company tea

After winning which battle did the British learn that defeating the Americans would not be easy?

• Battle of Boston

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Concord

• Battle of Lexington