8th Grade - Revolutionary War Unit Test
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8th Grade
Revolution Battles covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What was the colonists’ main objection to taxes imposed by the British Parliament?
The French paid no taxes.
Merchants had few goods.
Producers could not export.
They had no representation.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What was the document (written by Thomas Paine) that presented clear arguments for independence in language ordinary people could understand.
none of these
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Look at the engraving by Luigi Delnace (1863). (Battle of Lexington engraving) Which statement is supported by this source?
Generals fought together with their soldiers during battles.
Both men and women participated in the Revolutionary War.
There were some professional soldiers in the Continental Army.
British regulars had better terrain during the Battle of Lexington.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Read this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Which philosophy is this passage invoking?
right to revolution
limited government
representative taxation
consent of the governed
5.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 4 pts
Match the following people to their significance.
British King during war
Crispus Attucks
First person to die in Boston Massacre
The Marquis de Layafette
French nobleman in Continental Army
King George III
General who surrendered at Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following people with what they were best known for
Minuteman who warned colonists "Redcoats are coming"
Sam Adams
Chosen to lead the Continental Army
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
George Washington
Started the Sons of Liberty
Paul Revere
7.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Match the following items
warm climate, good for cash crops
plantations
harsh winters, good for fishing
Middle Colonies
growing grains and livestock
evangelicalism
Protestant movement accenting evangelism
New England
large farms; cash crops: cotton/tobacco
Southern Colonies
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