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American Revolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Taxes are placed on books, newspapers, and legal papers.

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Declaratory Act

2.

A riot on March 5th, 1770, which killed 5 people and wounded 6 others.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

The Gaspee

c)

Boston Massacre

3.

The British ship that crashed offshore and burned by colonists.

a)

Proclamation of 1763

b)

The Gaspee

c)

Boston Tea Party

4.

Colonists were told not to move west into Indian territory.

a)

Declaratory Act

b)

Quartering Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

5.

Parliament announces that they are in charge of the colonists.

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Declaratory Act

c)

Quartering Act

6.

Patriots dress as Indians and sneak aboard three British ships.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

The Gaspee

c)

Boston Masscre

7.

I warned local people about a British Invasion from Boston and shouted “The Regulars are out!”

a)

John Adams

b)

Paul Revere

c)

Thomas Jefferson

8.

I was the president of the Second Continental Congress.

a)

John Hancock

b)

John Adams

c)

George Washington

9.

I was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.

a)

John Hancock

b)

John Adams

c)

Thomas Jefferson

10.

I was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

James Madison

11.

I was the second president of the United States.

a)

Quincy Adams

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

John Adams

12.

Fill in the blank: “That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable (a.) ______________ , that among these are (b.) ____________, (c.) _____________, and the pursuit of (d.) _______________.”

a)

a. happiness, b. joy c. love d. liberty

b)

a. liberty b. faith c. hope d. love

c)

a. rights b. life c. liberty d. happiness

13.

Thomas Paine wrote American Crisis a pamphlet called:

a)

The Constitution

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Common Sense

14.

This woman helped design the first American Flag.

a)

Philip Wheatley

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Betsy Ross

15.

The turning point of the Revolutionary War was the battle of:

a)

Saratoga

b)

Lexington and Concord

c)

Bunker Hill

16.

General Washington and his soldiers nearly froze to death at:

a)

Bunker Hill

b)

Saratoga

c)

Valley Forge

17.

The last major battle of the Revolutionary War was at the Battle of:

a)

Trenton

b)

Yorktown

c)

Saratoga

18.

The event that officially ended the War on Sept. 3, 1783:

a)

Treaty of Valley Forge

b)

Treaty of Bunker Hill

c)

Treaty of Paris

19.

Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

a)

John Hancock

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Thomas Paine

20.

This man became the most famous traitor of the American Revolution:

a)

Thomas Paine

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Benedict Arnold