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WorksheetsRevolutionary War Test Review
Total questions: 112
Worksheet time: 56mins
How long did the Revolutionary war last?
6 years
8 years
9 years
5 years
What were the American colonists that supported independence called?
Continentals
Loyalists
Patriots
Americans
What were American colonists called who opposed the revolution and instead supported the British Empire and remaining in it?
Patriots
Britons
Canadians
Loyalists
What was the American army called?
Bluecoats
Redcoats
Continental Army
American militamen
Who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?
John Adams
Thomas Gage
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
British soldiers were called
devils or Redcoats
devils or Hessians
Hessians or Redcoats
Minutemen or Redcoats
Who was the king of Britain during the Revolutionary War?
John I
John II
George III
George II
What freedoms did the British grant to the colonists through the process of common law?
freedom of religion and freedom to petition
no quartering and representatives in Parliament
freedom of speech and no search warrant
trial by jury and freedom of the press
Parliament had two houses. What were they?
General Assembly and Lower House
House of Lords and House of Commons
House of Representatives and the Senate
House of Commons and Senate of the British Nobles
How would most colonial governors be selected?
Elected by men and women in the colonies.
Royal governor selects the man who follows them.
The king selects them.
They roll the dice and the person with doubles is selected.
What fraction of the population in the colonies owned enough land to vote?
1/4
2/5
3/4
2/3
What fraction of the population in Britain owned enough land to vote?
1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5
What were "crown salaries"?
Salaries for officials appointed by the king but paid for through colonial taxes.
Salaries provided through Parliament.
Salaries given to the king himself.
Salaries paid for by the general assemblies of the colonies and paid to the colonial governors.
Many colonial assemblies had two houses. How were they organized?
Upper House was appointed by the governors and Lower House was elected by property owners.
House of Lords inherited their positions while the House of Commons was elected by the people.
Upper House inherited their positions through primogeniture and the Lower House was appointed by the governor of each colony.
General Assembly is elected while the Lower House is appointed by governors.
Another name for the Seven Years War was
the Revolutionary War.
the French and Indian War.
the War of 1812.
the European and Continental War.
Compared to the British, what fraction of taxes did the colonists pay?
1/10th
2/3rd
1/26th
3/4th
If the slaves join the side of the British, what did the British promise in return?
Freedom after 5 years.
The freedom to go to Canada and begin their own community.
A return trip to Africa after the war was over.
The British promised the escaped slaves freedom.
During the times of the Revolution, what was the population of the 13 colonies?
24 million
17 million
5 million
2.4 million
Approximately, what percent of the American colonial population was of British descent?
70%
85%
55%
98%
The Stamp Act was enacted in 1765. What was its purpose?
To help Britain recover the money it spent in the colonies during the French and Indian War.
To pay for the Quartering Act and help keep colonials from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
To pay the "crown salaries".
To cover the cost of the weapons needed for the war.
Which of the following was NOT included in the items listed in the Stamp Act?
Dice
Paint
Licenses
Playing Cards
What did the Quartering Act require?
stamps be sold for licenses and diplomas
Parliament to include representatives from the colonies
It mandated that the colonists would have to house and supply the British soldiers in the colonies.
It required that settlers could not claim land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the secret society called that was made up of people from the American colonies who wanted to protest the rights of the limitations of the rights of the colonists?
Daughters of Liberty
Minutemen
Libertarians
Sons of Liberty
What profession was John Adams trained to perform?
Politician
Lawyer
Accountant
Professor
Who did John Adams represent of those involved in the Boston Massacre?
The men who through the tea in the Boston Harbor.
The British soldiers involved in the "massacre".
The men who formed the First Continental Congress.
Crispus Attucks
Which philosopher supported the "separation of powers"?
John Locke
Aristotle
Baron de Montesquieu
Socrates
Which philosopher provided the ideas of "natural rights" and the "social contract"?
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
John Adams
What are our "natural rights"?
life, liberty, and free speech
freedom of religion, press, assembly, speech and petition
health care and access to an education
life, liberty, and property
What is the "social contract"?
A written Bill of Rights.
An agreement between the King and the colonists called the Olive Branch Petition.
A statement making plain that "all men are created equal."
An agreement between the people and their government where they will give up some rights in order to be guaranteed their natural rights.
What are non-importation agreements"?
contracts between businesses guaranteeing that they will not purchase goods from other suppliers.
plans to boycott purchasing from British companies as a form of protest
a plan to purchase from local businesses after the Revolutionary War was over.
decrees written by the King forbidding smuggling by the colonial leaders.
How many American colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre?
3
4
5
6
Which company was to benefit from the Tea Act of 1773?
East India Company
Colonial Smugglers from Britain
British Imports Company
Virginia Company
What was the purpose of the Boston Tea Party?
To punish Parliament for its implementation of the Stamp Act.
To test the Coercive Acts.
Boston colonists protested against the British Tea Act
To get the king to repeal the Quartering Act
What was another name for the Coercive Acts (1774)?
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Non-Importation Act
What was the main purpose for tarring and feathering someone?
getting Loyalists to move to Canada.
scaring colonists into supporting the Revolutionary War
permanently scarring a person to punish them for a violent act
humiliating them publicly
Women who worked to support the efforts of the revolution were called ___________.
Spinsters of the United States
Committees of Correspondence
Abigail's Brigade
Daughters of Liberty
Which of the following was NOT taxed in the Townshend Acts?
Diplomas
Lead
Glass
Paint
Who owned the merchant ship Liberty?
Sam Adams
John Hancock
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
How many soldiers were sent to Boston after the increased level of violence due to the Townshend Acts?
500
1,000
2,500
4,000
How was Crispus Attucks important to the revolution?
He was a member of the Sons of Liberty.
He was the commanding officer of the British soldiers involved in the shooting.
He was killed during the Boston Massacre.
He was a judge in the court proceedings after the massacre.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
Groups of people that shared information between communities and colonies. They helped to unify the colonies.
Women who wove material during the periods of boycotts.
Military leaders who provided information between battles by passing letters between soldiers on the battlefield.
School children who were used to pass information on because they were not expected to be spies.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A gathering of the Daughters of Liberty as they worked to provide supplies for the Continental Army.
The response to the East India Company's monopoly on tea.
A social contract between colonies.
A response to the battles at Lexington and Concord.
Why would the people in Boston have a tea party rather than purchase the cheaper tea?
The colonists were hoping that the British would believe that a Native American tribe had committed the act and retaliate killing the hostile tribe in the Boston area.
The French had recently brought naval vessels to the area which would protect the colonists from the reactions of the British Navy.
They did not want to pay a tax of any kind and wanted to hurt wealthy merchants.
The people of Boston were vile and vindictive. They participated in this kind of action against anyone who got in their way.
What did NOT occur as a result of the Coercive Acts?
Closed port of Boston to trade until the tea was paid for from the Boston Tea Party--including the tax.
The shooting of the five men in the Boston Massacre.
Royal governor gained power.
British sent warships and troops.
What were the Intolerable Acts in response to?
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Riots after the Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party.
How did the community of Boston respond to the Intolerable or Coercive Acts?
They burned John Hancock in effigy.
Many throughout Boston became involved in the protests and violence.
Burned the offices of the Stamp collectors.
General Thomas Gage was tarred and feathered.
The First Continental Congress was held in 1774. Which colony did not send a representative to the Congress?
New York
South Carolina
Rhode Island
Georgia
Who is quoted as saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Sam Adams
John Hancock
Who was the governor of Massachusetts as the Revolutionary War begun?
General Howe
General Gage
William Berkeley
Sam Adams
How did Gage provoke the battles of Lexington and Concord?
Troops were being sent to arrest Hancock and Sam Adams at Lexington and to get the stockpile of weapons at Concord.
Five men were shot at the Boston Massacre.
George Washington was defeated at Fort Necessity.
Ben Franklin was sent back from England without being able to meet with Parliament. The Olive Branch Petition had been rejected.
What are citizen solders called?
Sons of Liberty
Militias
Continentals
Fighting Committees
Minutemen are....
Native Americans that fought alongside the British Army.
the early members of the Continental Army.
Militia members who could respond quickly when needed.
Redcoats that were quartered by the good people of Boston.
What is the name of the document that separated the colonies from Great Britain and stated the reasons why?
Articles of Confederation
Magna Carta
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
Who is credited for writing the Declaration of Independence?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Donnelly
John Hancock
John Starbuck
John Chokio
Where did the first battles of the Revolutionary War take place?
Yorktown and Saratoga
Seneca and New York City
Boston and Philadelphia
Lexington and Concord
The largest battle of the war took place on August 27, 1776. What was it called?
The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Concord Heights
The Battle of Brooklyn Heights
Who is famous for warning the colonists that the British or Redcoats were coming?
Paul Revere
John Willington
Patrick Henry
Sam Adams
What fraction of the British troops were German soldiers (they would become known as Hessians)?
1/5
1/4
1/3
1/2
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
A rejection of a proposal sent to the colonies by Parliament hoping to avoid war with the colonists.
A document threatening independence from both Spain and England.
A letter sent by the Committees of Correspondence calling for all militiamen to unite.
In 1775 the Second Continental Congress sent to George III an allegiance to the king but not to the Parliament. They congress was hoping to avoid war.
How did King George III respond to the Olive Branch Petition?
supported and agreed upon by the king
it was passed to Parliament to deal with it.
rejected the request
it was burned before it got to the king
Which Founding Father helped to negotiate an agreement with France which allowed France to become an ally of the American colonies during the war (1778)?
John Adams
George Washington
John Jay
Benjamin Franklin
Which French general provided sound military advice to the Continental Army?
Baron de Montesquieu
Marquis de Lafayette
Justin Trudeau
Emmanuel Macron
Which country would assist the American colonists due to its alliance with France?
Spain
Mexico
Germany
Britain
What battle was a major turning point of the Revolutionary War?
Battle of Trenton
Battle of New York City
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Saratoga
What was the final major battle of the Revolutionary War?
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
What British commander was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown?
Lord Cornwallis
General Gage
General Howe
Lord Clinton
Who is credited for making the first American flag?
Betsy Ross
Abigail Adam
Deborah Sampson
Molly Pitcher
What role did Martha Washington play in the war?
She traveled with the troops fighting alongside her husband when necessary.
She served as a military nurse.
She toured camps providing support for the military men.
She wove cloth for the uniforms of the Continental Army
How did Abigail Adams play a role during this period?
She provided advice and support to her husband, John Adams.
She raised a great deal of money to purchase weapons from France.
She started a military hospital outside of Philadelphia.
She went to the Netherlands to request a loan for the new country.
Which female revolutionary carried water to the troops and at one point when her husband was killed in battle she replaced him at the artillery gun?
Molly Pitcher
Susan B. Anthony
Mary Harper
Melanie Hancock
In which document would find this phrase?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Constitution of the United States
Articles of Confederation
Common Sense Pamphlet
Declaration of Independence
In the Declaration of Independence, the word "he" refers to ....
King George III
Queen Elizabeth II
King Charles II
King John III
Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Paul Revere
Alexander Hamilton
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
The Continental Army struggled with...
Hunger and lack of supplies.
A reason to fight.
a lack of leadership
their French allies.
What are mercenaries?
military nurses
minutemen
soldiers for hire
allied soldiers
Which Founding Father created this political cartoon?
John Adams
Ben Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
Which battle was the first great victory of the war for the colonists?
Battle Yorktown
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Battle of Saratoga
In which year was the Treaty of Paris signed?
1776
1778
1781
1783
What treaty would end the Revolutionary War? It established a northern boundary with Canada and set the Mississippi River as the western boundary.
Treaty of Ghent 1792
Treaty of Yorktown 1784
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty of London 1790
What disease did George Washington hope to have his troops avoid and therefore had them inoculated? This would drop the death toll from this disease from 17% to 1%.
measles
smallpox
malaria
tuberculosis
Why would local farmers prefer to provide their produce to the British rather than the Continental Army?
The British would pay with hard currency.
Many of the local farmers considered themselves to be Loyalists.
The British held the farmers at gunpoint and threatened to burn the farmers' crops.
The Continental Army often suffered from disease so the farmers wanted to stay away from them as to avoid getting sick.
What did the Continental Congress do that would have devastating effects on the colonial economy?
It would print ore money in order to pay its bills. This devalued the money and caused inflation.
They burned the crops so the British couldn't access them.
They freed the slaves after the war.
Took out a loan from the French that they couldn't pay back.
Who is credited for writing the pamphlet Common Sense?
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Why was the pamphlet Common Sense important?
It was important because it laid out the argument for independence in plain language so that common people could understand it.
It explained to King George III why we were declaring independence.
It provided Parliament with one last chance to avoid war.
It explained to France and Spain why we needed them as allies and how they would benefit from helping the colonies.
Which royal governor of Virginia offered freedom to enslaved people who helped him put down the rebellion?
Lord Dumbledore
Lord Voldemort
Lord Dunmore
Lord Doneless
The battle tactics employed by Washington and the Continental Army were typically...
worthless
defensive
offensive
successful
How many Americans died during the Revolutionary War?
10,000
25,000
48,000
61,000
What percentage of the population supported the revolution?
25%
40%-45%
60%-65%
90%
Who negotiated the Treaty of Paris 1783?
Franklin and Adams
Washington and Franklin
Washington and Adams
Jefferson and Madison
Who was Deborah Sampson?
She was a woman disguised as a man who fought during the Revolutionary War for the Continental Army.
She started the first military hospital of the Revolutionary War.
She was the sister of George Washington and the wife of Patrick Henry.
Molly Pitcher's sister-in-law
Which German volunteer came to assist the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
Hermann Goering
Angele Merkel
Mein Kampf
Baron Von Steuben
What were the conditions often suffered by the soldiers of the Continental Army at Valley Forge?
The soldered often were provided with excess food during harvest.
Native American medicine men and women helped with battle injuries.
The soldiers often suffered from a lack of supplies and food.
The French provided extra weapons and ammunition.
What proclamation required that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachians?
Proclamation of Saratoga
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of the Olive 1778
Proclamation of Common Sense
Why would most Natives side with the British?
The British had taken over current day Canada and treated the Natives with great respect after the French and Indian War.
The French were fur traders.
The British promised to keep the colonists to the East,
The colonial economy was destroyed by the war.
How did the Patriots destroy the power of the Iroquois Federation?
It forced the Iroquois into northern Canadian provinces.
The Iroquois provided furs for coats and warmth during the freezing winters of the war.
It burned 40 Iroquois towns because of the relationship between the British and the Iroquois.
The Iroquois fed the British troops.
In the rural South, what was the war like?
The war was a civil war. Neighbor vs. neighbor. Family vs. family.
The war was similar with what had taken place at the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War.
The war in the South was one of harsh defeats for the Continental Army.
The Revolutionary War did not end up in the Southern states at all.
How did the British policies toward the "lower" Loyalists affect the politics of the Loyalists?
The Loyalists would attack Spain in current day Mexico.
Falsely encouraged the Southern Loyalists who believed the British would win.
Many Loyalists changed sides and joined the Patriots.
The Loyalists would grow excess food for the British soldiers.
Two new leaders of the Patriots made significant contributions to the war effort against the British. Who were they?
Nathaniel Green and Daniel Morgan
James Madison and Charles Breckenridge
Stuart Small and Mel O'Yellow
Alexander Hamilton and John Jay
What was NOT a MAIN Factor contributing to the success of the Patriots?
The Patriots were underestimated.
Patriots were highly motivated.
Italy provided loans and weapons in support of the colonial efforts.
British misunderstood the political nature of the conflict.
What battle is described below?
A trap was set. General Cornwallis expected reinforcements from New York. The French General Lafayette trapped the British on the peninsula until assistance could arrive. The French Navy blocked British reinforcements from reaching Cornwallis and his men. Cornwallis would surrender with 8,000 troops.
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Concord
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Battle of Saratoga
What was the last military confrontation of the Revolutionary War?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Albany
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Yorktown
Which group of people benefited most from the Revolutionary War?
enslaved peoples
married women
men with money
British Parliament
Which people lost the most during the Revolutionary War?
Loyalists and Patriots
Native Americans and the Daughters of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty and the Sons of Liberty
Loyalists and Native Americans
How did the Natives feel about the Treaty of Paris?
The Natives were hopeful for peace at last.
The Native Americans felt betrayed by the British as the treaty did not include them.
The Native Americans felt that they would be forced East.
The Native Americans felt that it had been negotiated fairly.
What request did Abigail Adams make of her husband after the war?
"Stick to them"
"Remember the Ladies"
"Equal justice for All"
"All men are created equal"
At the time of the revolution, what fraction of the colonial population was of African ancestry?
1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5
How did British and Loyalists see Patriots who owned slaves?
smart
with hatred
wise economically
hypocritical
Why was it easier to end slavery in the North?
the Puritans hated slavery
there weren't many slaves in the North to begin with
slaves were not essential to the North's economy
most of the larger ports and trading centers were in the West
After the Revolutionary War, what fraction of the population was enslaved?
1/2
1/3
1/4
1/5
The freeing of slaves voluntarily is called
primogeniture
chattel
manumission
human branding
Which revolutionary leader predicted that the American Revolution would change the world?
Patrick Henry
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Sam Adams
