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Road to the American Revolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

First shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired here.

a)

Bunker Hill

b)

Boston Harbor

c)

Lexington and Concord

d)

Albany

2.

British tax on requiring a seal be placed on all colonial paper items.

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Declaratory Act

d)

Coercive Act

3.

Form of protest where people stop buying products to show their resentment.

a)

Smuggling

b)

Espionage

c)

Tar and feathering

d)

Boycott

4.

Primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Adams

d)

John Hancock

5.

God-given rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

a)

Undeniable Rights

b)

Unbelievable Rights

c)

Unpopular Rights

d)

Unalienable Rights

6.

To prove his accusations against King George III, Thomas Jefferson included 27 ? in the Declaration of Independence.

a)

grievances

b)

observations

c)

beliefs

d)

opinions

7.

Which of the following stated the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?

a)

The Treaty of Paris 1763

b)

The Navigation Acts

c)

The Proclamation of 1763

d)

The Declaratory Act

8.

What was the popular slogan used by the colonies in protest of the British taxes?

a)

"Give me liberty, or give me death"

b)

"Join or Die"

c)

"No Taxation without Representation"

d)

"My Rights, My Freedom, My Liberty"

9.

Which of the following punished Massachusetts for its continued defiance?

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Townshend Acts

c)

The Proclamation of 1763

d)

The Coercive / Intolerable Acts

10.

Thomas Paine's popular pamphlet that encouraged the support for independence

a)

The Rights of Man

b)

Common Sense

c)

The Federalist Papers

d)

The Enlightenment

11.

The Boston Tea Party is viewed as an act of civil disobedience.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Paul Revere used the following image as propaganda in order....?

a)

Show the might of the British army

b)

encourage colonists not to resist the British

c)

create anti-British feelings

d)

support the taxing of the colonies

13.

In what year was the Declaration of Independence written?

a)

1770

b)

1776

c)

1754

d)

1763

14.

Which of the following individuals wrote anti-British poems and plays?

a)

Mercy Otis Warren

b)

Mary Ludwig Hayes

c)

Abigail Adams

d)

Deborah Sampson

15.

African American who was the the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was killed at the Boston Massacre.

a)

Samuel Adams

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

William Dawes

d)

Crispus Attucks