History Quiz

What is a small army made up of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency called?

• Tyranny

• Militia

• Ally

• Petition

What term describes an unjust government?

• Repeal

• Independence

• Tyranny

• Boycott

What does it mean to take back or cancel a law?

• Repeal

• Petition

• Ally

• Boycott

What is the term for refusing to buy goods from a certain source?

• Independence

• Boycott

• Tyranny

• Militia

What is freedom from control by another government or country called?

• Petition

• Repeal

• Independence

• Ally

What is a formal, written request made to an official person or organization?

• Declaration of Independence

• Petition

• Boycott

• Militia

What document declared the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule?

• American Revolution

• Continental Army

• Declaration of Independence

• Ally

What was the struggle of the colonies in North America to gain their independence from Great Britain called?

• Continental Army

• American Revolution

• Repeal

• Militia

What was the American army during the American Revolution called?

• Ally

• Militia

• Continental Army

• Petition

What is a nation that joins another nation in some common effort, such as fighting a war, called?

• Tyranny

• Ally

• Boycott

• Repeal