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Becoming the US 1730-1800

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the role of slaves during the American Revolution (select one)

a)

They fought for the loyalist

b)

They fought for the Patriots

c)

They were not allowed to fight

d)

They fought for both sides

2.

Who were the Loyalist?

a)

The Native Americans who fought for Great Britain

b)

The colonist who supported Great Britain

c)

The soldiers who fought for the North

d)

The colonist who came to the New World.

3.

What was the American Revolution?

a)

A war between the French and the Indians

b)

Colonist revolt against Great Britain in a fight for freedom with control of the Mother Country

c)

A war between the colonist and Native Americans for land.

d)

A fight for power between the Northern and Southern Colonies.

4.

What is a colonist?

a)

A tax on cheese

b)

an individual who left Great Britain to settle in the now US

c)

a freed slave

d)

a soldier for the British Army

5.

Who were the Patriots?

a)

A football team for New Jersey

b)

A colonist who supported Great Britain during the American Revolution.

c)

A Native American tribe who fought for Great Britain

d)

The originals settlers of the colonies

6.

What was the contributing role of women during the American Revolutionary War?

a)

Cook, clean and take care of the babies

b)

nurses, sew uniforms, boycott

c)

read books, cook pizza and shoot canons.

d)

return to Great Britain to serve as spys

7.

What was the Stamp Act?

a)

A boycott of paper products

b)

A tax on everything paper

c)

The start of the US postal system

8.

What is Parliament?

a)

A party where people square dance

b)

US Government

c)

the British Government

d)

The seize of colonist property by the military.

9.

What is the Boston Massacre

a)

When colonist revolted by throwing imported tea in the Boston Harbor

b)

A Native Americans attack on colonist in Boston Massachusetts

c)

A response by British soldiers to taunting by colonist resulting in the death of 5 colonist including Crispus Attucks

d)

Colonists demand of tax repeals.

10.

What does taxation without representation mean?

a)

a tax from our government on gasoline

b)

The Stamp Act

c)

Refusing to buy or import products from another country

d)

taxing people without them having a say in the government doing the taxing

11.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

a)

a plan for a new government in the colonies

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The meeting of representatives from Great Britain

d)

A letter to the king, in which colonist claimed independence.

12.

What does ratify mean?

a)

the act of making a law official.

b)

To rid a ship of rodents

c)

A vote of all representations

d)

separation of power

13.

Constitutional Convention

a)

A party to celebrate the independence of the colonies

b)

multiple branches of government

c)

A meeting to decide the future government of the colonies

d)

The King of England's government

14.

What is a delegate

a)

A representative

b)

a colony

c)

system of government

d)

a run away slave

15.

Which source is this

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Neither

d)

both