WorksheetsCh. 4 Revolutionary War
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is credited with being the author of the Declaration of Independence and became our 3rd President?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
John Adams
c)
John Quincy Adams
d)
Andrew Jackson
2.
Who was the defiant leader who lead the charge against the Stamp Act and the British. He is credited with founding the Sons of Liberty.
a)
Samuel Adams
b)
Marquis de Lafayette
c)
Bendedict Arnold
d)
James II
3.
Who was the 20 year old French Aristocrat who helped out the Americans?
a)
Marquis de Lafayette
b)
Baron von Steuben
c)
Francois Hollande
d)
Angela Merkel
4.
Who was the man who sailed with 8,500 British troops and captured Charles town, South Carolina. He was then defeated by the French and Americans at Yorktown, virtually ending the war?
a)
Charles Cornwallis
b)
Thomas Gage
c)
Ethan Allen
d)
John Locke
5.
Who was the Prussian captain and talented drill master that turned Washington's "country bumpkins" into professionals at Valley Forge?
a)
Baron Von Steuben
b)
Martin Luther
c)
Otto von Bismarck
d)
Heinrich Himmler
6.
What required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for all paper goods?
a)
The Stamp Act
b)
The Itolerable Acts
c)
The Second Continental Congress
d)
The Last Act
7.
What were the series of measures put on the colonies by the British as punishment for the 18,000 lbs of tea thrown overboard called?
a)
The Intolerable Acts
b)
The Acts of Good Measure
c)
The Navigation Acts
d)
The Tea Time Act
8.
Whose land was left unprotected by the Treaty of Paris?
a)
Native Americans
b)
Country bumpkins
c)
Loyalists
d)
French
9.
What is the term for formally seeing a group as a legit or valid country, like France did during the war?
a)
Recognize
b)
Comprende
c)
Retribution
d)
Realness
10.
What put duties on imported goods such as glass, lead, paint, and tea?
a)
Townshend Acts
b)
Thompson Acts
c)
Tamarac Acts
d)
Topeka Acts
11.
Who were German mercenaries, hired by the British, that Washington defeated at the Battle of Trenton called?
a)
Hessians
b)
Moravians
c)
Slovenians
d)
Merrymen
12.
Who were colonial civilian soldiers with little to no soldering experience?
a)
Minutemen
b)
Prussians
c)
Spaniards
d)
Dutchmen
13.
This group, created in reaction to the Stamp Act, organized boycotts and propaganda against British rule. It originated in Boston and began with Samuel Adams.
a)
Sons of Liberty
b)
Loyalists
c)
Minutemen
d)
Oneida
14.
Who was the group that approved the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Second Continental Congress
b)
Parliament
c)
Reichstag
d)
House of Lords
15.
What was the document in which the delegates declared the colonies independent from Britain?
a)
Declaration of Independence
b)
Articles of Confederation
c)
Constitution
d)
Bill of Rights
16.
What was the name given to an incident where a mob formed at the Customs House, leading to British soldiers killing five colonists including Crispus Attucks, who is said to be the first casualty of the war?
a)
Boston Massacre
b)
Boston Red Sox
c)
Boston Tea Party
d)
Bostonian Incident
17.
What was the battle that resulted in the French joining the side of the colonists, in which British General Burgoyne was heading south to meet General Howe to cut off New England called? Gen. Howe did not meet him and this became the turning point in the war.
a)
Battle of Saratoga
b)
Battle of Lexington
c)
Battle of Shiloh
d)
Battle of the Bumpkins
18.
What was the document sent by the Second Continental Congress as a last reach out effort to King George III proposing a peace? King George III declared them rebels and established a naval blockade.
a)
Olive Branch Petition
b)
Treaty of Paris 1783
c)
Magna Carta
d)
English Bill of Rights
19.
What confirmed U.S. Independence by ending the Revolutionary War as well as established U.S. boundaries?
a)
Treaty of Paris 1783
b)
Common Sense
c)
Treaty of Paris 1763
d)
Lousiana Purchase
20.
In 1804, the number of freed back slaves in the North went from 4,000 to what number?
a)
20,000
b)
100,000,000
c)
5,000
d)
12
21.
What is an increase in prices or a decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in supply or money?
a)
Inflation
b)
Continentals
c)
Investments
d)
Mercantilsm
22.
What came about after the war, that was the belief of equality for all people? What determines a person's worth is their ability, effort, virtue and not their social status or wealth.
a)
Egalitarianism
b)
Aristocratic
c)
Exceptionalism
d)
Elitist
23.
What is it called to rule over an area by military force as was Boston for throwing tea into the harbor?
a)
Martial Law
b)
Declaratory Law
c)
Townshend Law
d)
Boston Law
24.
Communication lines were set up by these groups, to ensure that colonies were informed about threats to American liberties.
a)
Committees of Correspondance
b)
Committees of Collusion
c)
Committees of Collapse
d)
Committees of Commentary
25.
One of the goals of this battle was to cut off New England from the other colonies. Washington had 23,000 troops to General and Admiral Howes' 32,000 men. Washington lost and only had 8,000 men remaining.
a)
New York
b)
Yorktown
c)
Concord
d)
Breed's Hill
26.
What was a component of the Intolerable Acts?
a)
tax on coffee
b)
storing munitions at Concord
c)
Boston placed under martial law
d)
expulsion of British soldiers
27.
Washington lost how many men at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778?
a)
20,000
b)
10,000
c)
2,000
d)
14,000
28.
Who wrote the 50-page pamphlet in which he declares King George III a tyrant and that it is time for colonists to declare themselves an independent republic?
a)
Thomas Paine
b)
John Locke
c)
Emmanuel Kante
d)
Renes Descartes
29.
Which 4 nations participated in the peace talks during 1782 in Paris?
a)
U.S., Britain, Spain, & France
b)
U.S., Britain, Portugal, & Spain
c)
U.S., Britain, France, & the Netherlands
d)
U.S., Britain, Hesse, & Prussia
30.
What is the name of the invidiual credited with riding to warn the colonists that the regulars (British) were coming?
a)
Dr. Joseph Warren
b)
Paul Revere
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
Samuel Adams
31.
Who was the monarch of England who reigned during the American Revolution and war for independence?
a)
George III
b)
James II
c)
Henry VIII
d)
Edward VI
32.
Who did the Second Continental Congress appoint as the Commander of the newly founded Continental Army?
a)
George Washington
b)
George H.W. Bush
c)
George Macon
d)
George Wallace
33.
When did the Second Continental Congress adopt the Declaration of Independence?
a)
July 4,1776
b)
October 19, 1781
c)
April 19, 1775
d)
September 17, 1787
34.
What did colonists dress as when boarding the 3 ships to dump tea into Boston's harbor?
a)
Native Americans
b)
Loyalists
c)
Patriots
d)
Hessians
35.
What is one way the Continental Congress paid for the war effort?
a)
Sold war bonds
b)
Borrowed money from Britain
c)
Found gold in the hills
d)
The soldiers willingly worked for free.
36.
Who engraved the famouse depicton of the Boston Massacre? This image was used as propaganda to garner support for the Patriot's cause.
a)
Paul Revere
b)
John Jay
c)
Benjamin Franklin
d)
George Washington
37.
Whose ship, the Liberty, was seized because of suspicion of smuggled wine onboard, spurring him towards revolution?
a)
John Hancock
b)
Thomas Gage
c)
John Greene
d)
Ethan Allen
38.
British Parliament established this act the same day it repealed the Stamp Act. It proclamied that Parliament had full right to make laws "to bind the colonies and people of America... in all cases whatsoever."
a)
Declaratory Act
b)
Townshend Acts
c)
Tea Act
d)
Intolerable Acts
39.
This man was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
a)
Samuel Adams
b)
Ethan Allen
c)
Charles Cornwallis
d)
Paul Revere
40.
Those who supported independence.
a)
Patriots
b)
Thomas Gage
c)
Admiral Howe
d)
Charles Cornwallis
41.
Those who opposed independence.
a)
Loyalists
b)
General Greene
c)
George Washington
d)
Patriots
42.
The population of the colonies was 2.5 million to Britain's .... Million.
a)
3
b)
10
c)
4
d)
.5
43.
The British marched into this town looking for hidden munitions, but the munitions had already been moved. As they were leaving to return to Boston, about 3-4,000 minutemen assembled and began firing on them.
a)
Concord
b)
Saratogoa
c)
Quebec
d)
Savannah
44.
This battle took place on Breed's Hill during the summer of 1775 and was won by the British after 3 waves of attack and the lack of ammunition of the Continental Army.
a)
Bunker Hill
b)
Yorktown
c)
Saratoga
d)
Lexington
45.
Who represented America at the Paris peace talks in 1782?
a)
John Jay, Ben Franklin, & John Adams
b)
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Ethan Allen
c)
Ben Franklin, William Franklin, Crispus Attucks
d)
John Quincy Adams, Ben Franklin, & John Jay
46.
Why was the Quartering Act so intolerable?
a)
Colonists did not want to house British soldiers in their homes.
b)
Quarters were not the best way to pay bills.
c)
The colonists were used to playing games in halves not quarters.
d)
British soldiers only paid a quarter of what was expected of colonists to pay.
47.
Why was the Tea Act of 1773 upsetting to the colonists?
a)
It lowered the price of tea because the act nullified any tax on the British East India Co. tea.
b)
The Tea Act increased the price of tea ten-fold.
c)
British tea was outlawed in the colonies because Earl Grey said so.
d)
It was upsetting because colonists still had not gotten over the Stamp Act.
48.
What was one way Boston was intolerably punished for the lost revenue of the tea dumped in it's harbor?
a)
Boston Harbor was shut down.
b)
Boston did not get to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
c)
The British abondoned Boston completely.
d)
George Washingnton was fired from his position as commander of the regulars.
49.
What was a mistake General Cornwallis made at the Battle of Yorktown? It was a 3 week seige where he and his men were surrounded by 17,000 American and French troops. French ships also blocked any aid from the British navy.
a)
Cornwallis and his men were lead astray by the Hessians.
b)
The British were too busy celebrating Christmas and had too much fun and were not prepared for an attack.
c)
Cornwallis marched his troops onto a peninsula between the York and James Rivers.
d)
The British navy was not known for strength and left Cornwallis and his men.
50.
In the phrase, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...," happiness does not mean to feel joy but rather what?
a)
The feeling of self-worth and dignity you acquire by contributing to your community and to its civic life
b)
The feeling you get when your favorite jam comes on.
c)
The realization that it is once again the time to take notes in history class.
d)
The overwhelming feeling of knowing that the presidential election is 4 years away!
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