American Revolution TEST

As a result of the French and Indian War, ____________ became the dominant power in North America.

• France

• Great Britain

• Native Americans

• America

Following the French and Indian War, the British decided to tax the colonists because

• the colonists were ungrateful and rude

• they needed more from the colonists

• they owed lots of money and felt the colonists should help pay their bills

• the colonists did not want to help with anything

Many of the colonists were proud British subjects. But they also felt that they had rights—rights that the king and his government could not take away. Opposition to the Stamp Act spread.

Opposition means ___________

• agreement

• happiness

• difficult

• disagreement

The colonists demonstrated their opposition to the Stamp Act by…

CHOOSE 3

• sending petitions to London

• crying, “No taxation without representation!”

• writing pamphlets

• boycotting

What is the meaning of a boycott?

A boycott ____________

• is taxation without representation

• is buying things in bulk

• is to refuse to buy or use.

• is taxing people

The Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, and the Intolerable Acts were all examples of ____________________________

• increasing British control over the affairs of the colonists.

• decreasing British control over the affairs of the colonists.

• adding more colonies for the colonists

• The Boston Tea Party

________________was a meeting in Philadelphia, where representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies gathered. 

• The Second Continental Congress

• The Third Continental Congress

• The Fourth Continental Congress

• The First Continental Congress

Paul Revere and other night riders rode out of Boston on the eve of the ___________________

• Battles of Lexington and Concord.

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle at Breed's Hill

• Revolutionary War

The American Revolution spans many years, but the actual war began in _____________with the “shot heard ’round the world” in ____________________________

• June 1775, Bunker Hill

• April 1775,Lexington, Massachusetts.

• October 1781, Yorktown, Virginia

• December 1776, Trenton, New Jersey

While the Battle of Bunker Hill was being fought in Massachusetts, representatives from all 13 colonies attended the Second Continental Congress. While there, they decided to __________, ___________, _______________

CHOOSE 3 ANSWERS

• Tax colonists

• write a formal declaration of independence

• set up a postal service

• create an army