WorksheetsAmerican Revolution
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following was the British King during the Revolutionary Era?
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
George Washington
King George III
Which of the following was the commander and chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benedict Arnold
Which of the following was a colonial leader who was also an inventor and a scientist?
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Paul Revere
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Benedict Arnold
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
What was the name of the document that formally separated the United States from England?
First Continental Congress
British Imperial Policy
The Declaration of Independence
The Stamp Act
Which of the following was an act of protest by the Sons of Liberty to show their disapproval of the new tax on tea?
Boston Massacre
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
What was the name of the event leading to the Revolution when colonists were shot by British soldiers?
Sons of Liberty Party
Second Continental Congress
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Which group or people assisted the French in the French and Indian war?
Colonists
British
Native Americans
Germans
Why did the French and Indian war begin?
The French and the British wanted to extend their colonies into the west
The French wanted to share the land with the Native Americans
The French build a fort causing the Native Americans to fight for their land
None of the above
Who won the French and Indian War?
The French
The Indians
The British
The American colonists
Why did the King of England tax the colonists?
He wanted more money to make England rich
He wanted money to pay for sending soldiers to America
He did not like the colonists and wanted to punish them
He needed money to pay for the French and Indian War
_____________ is money paid to the government.
Parliament
taxes
slogan
boycitts
In 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, a group of British soldiers shot their muskets into a crown. Five colonists were killed. This event was called the __________________.
French and Indian War
The Civil War
The Revolutionary War
The Boston Massacre
What was the tea act?
It allowed a British company to sell tea in the colonies for a very cheap price hurting the local tea merchants
It closed the port of Boston
It was a tax on all paper goods such as books, playing cards, and legal documents
None of the above
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Bostonian's threw snowballs and rocks at the British soldiers
Paul Revere rode around telling colonists that the British were coming
The Tea Act made the colorists mad and they did not want to purchase the British tea. The soldiers became angry
None of the above
Which of the following was a result of the Boston Tea Party?
The Stamp Act
The Intolerable Act
The Sugar Act
The Tea Act
A law that required colonists to buy stamps for paper goods and documents as the _____________act.
Stamp
Glass
Sugar
Tea
Which of the following is a law that increased the price of sugar, molasses, and several other colonial goods?
The Lemon Act and the Tea Act
The Coercive Act and the Tea Act
The Stamp Act and the Sugar Act
All of the above
What was the influence of Paul Revere in the American Revolutionary War?
He helped warn the Patriots that the British were coming to attack and they were able to prepare
He was an inventor and helped make bifocals so that people could see
He became the first United States President
He was the commander in chief of the Continental Army
