American Independence Quiz

What region did Native Americans, French trappers, and English settlers fight over leading to the French and Indian War?

• Boston

• Ohio River Valley

• French Valley

• Bunker Hill

Pacifism is the.....

• belief that disagreements should be settled with war

• those who oppose the king

• belief that disagreements should be settled peacefully without war

• those who wanted to stay loyal to the king

A group of citizens trained to defend the country is the _________

• loyalists

• minutemen

• patriots

• militia

Parliament does what?

• make laws for the USA

• Makes laws for the British

• Makes laws for France

• makes laws for the Native Americans

What law required the 13 colonies to help pay for stationing British troops in their colonies?

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

What is the secret organization that the colonies set up to oppose the British tax?

• militia

• Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

• Fort Duquesne

What document marked land west of the Appalachians as solely for the American Indians?

• Stamp Act

• Continental Congress

• Lexington and Concord

• Proclamation of 1763

Who were the people opposed to the British government?

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Parliament

• minutemen

What group represented the thirteen colonies and met to discuss how they would deal with the British?

• Boston Tea Party

• Continental Congress

• Patriots

• militia

The patriots fought for....

• less freedom from King George

• more freedom from King George

• no freedom

• freedom from the colonist