Revolutionary War Test

Virginians believed that Parliament had no right to tax them because they had no ________________ in the British legislature.

• 1. rules

• 1. laws

• 1. compensation

• 1. representation

1. Which document was written by Thomas Jefferson and explained the reasons for the Revolutionary War?

• 1. Virginia Declaration of Rights

• 1. Declaration of Independence

• 1. Virginia Charters

• 1. United States Constitution

1. The colonists and the British Parliament disagreed about how the colonies should be _________.

• 1. given names

• 1. farmed

• 1. governed

• 1. given land

1. ___________________ was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

• 1. George Mason

• 1. Patrick Henry

• 1. George Washington

• 1. Thomas Jefferson

1. Virginians who supported British rule over Colonist rule  were known as ___________________.

1. delegates

2. loyalists

3. patriots

4. burgesses

• 1. delegates

• 1. loyalists

• 1. patriots

• 1. burgesses

1. ____________________ fought with the British to earn their freedom during the Revolutionary War.

• 1. Women

• 1. Burgesses

• 1. American Indians

• 1. African Americans

1. Virginians who did not take sides during the war were said to be ___________________.

• 1. neutral

• 1. traitors

• 1. patriots

• 1. loyalists

As men left to fight in the American Revolution , _____________________ took on  more responsibilities at home.

• storekeepers

• farmers

• women

• representatives

The capital of Virginia moved from Williamsburg to _________________ during the Revolutionary War.

• Richmond

• Lynchburg

• Chesterfield

• Jamestown

_______________ won the Revolutionary War.

• Spain

• Great Britain

• America

• Canada