HNR USH 2.1-2.3 Quiz

During the Battle of _________, Americans surprised Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner.

• Bunker's Hill

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Yorktown

_______________ War (1754-1763) fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley. The English won.

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

• French and Indian War

• King Philip's War

This ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America.

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

This stated that no colonist could settle in lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains and made the colonists very upset.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

This law, passed in 1765, placed a tax on printed goods, including playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

This was a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution.

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Stamp Act Congress

• Committees of Correspondence

This was a series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

• Sugar Act

American colonists who determined to fight the British until America won its independence were called

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Colonists

• Settlers

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence were called

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Colonists

• Settlers

Name the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation.

• Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition