Unit 3 Grade 8 SS Review

? wrote popular plays making fun of the British officials and motivated the colonists to take action against the British government.

• Martha Washington

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Pontiac

• Thomas Jefferson

The ? staged mock hangings of cloth or straw effigies, or likenesses, of British officials.  The mock hangings were meant to show tax collectors what might happen to them if they collected taxes.

• minutemen

• committees of correspondence

• Iriquois

• Sons of Liberty

On March 5, 1770, a crowd gathered outside the Boston customs house.  Colonists called British soliders there "lobsterbacks", and then began to throw snowballs, ice chunks and oystershells at the soliders. The British soldiers fired on the crowd, leaving five people dead in the ?

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Battles of Lexington & Concord

• Albany Plan of Union

King George III responded to the events that took place during the Boston Tea Party with the ?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Writs of Assistance

The leader of the Continental Army was ?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• Ethan Allen

A famous minuteman who rode his horse through the night warning the colonists of the incoming British army.

• Samuel Adams

• Paul Revere

• Pontiac

• Thomas Jefferson

Nathaniel Hale was hanged by British forces when copies of British battle plans were found in ?

• his hat

• his coat

• his bag

• his shoes

The ? required colonists to provide candles, drinks, blankets and housing to British soldiers stationed in the colonies.

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Quartering Act

The aftermath of fighting that took place in the Battles of ? made the colonists realize that there would be no peaceful settlement with Britain.

• Princeton and Trention

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston and Philadelphia

• New Jersey and Vermont

George Washington's headquarters in Pennsylvania.

• The Liberty Bell

• Valley Forge

• Long Valley

• Trenton