American History Quiz

The French were fighting the Indians for land in North America.

• True

• False

George Washington led the Second Continental Congress.

• True

• False

Everybody in America wanted to go to war with Britain.

• True

• False

Most of the soldiers in the Continental Army signed up for the duration of the war.

• True

• False

This agreement was supposed to stop settlers from moving farther west.

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Albany Plan of Union

• Treaty of Paris

• Proclamation of 1763

The colonists paid taxes on molasses because of the

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• writ of assistance

Some colonists celebrated this dramatic act of defiance against the British Soldiers.

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

• Coercive Acts

• Boston Tea Party

Paul Revere and this man warned John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British were coming.

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Gage

• William Dawes

The Green Mountain Boys, who captured the British-held Fort Ticonderoga, were led by

• Paul Revere

• Ethan Allen

• George Washington

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although the British won this battle, they learned that defeating the Americans would not be easy.

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Boston

• Battle of Concord

• Battle of Lexington