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Events Leading to American Revoution

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged Independence.

a)

Newspaper

b)

Common Sense

c)

The Independent

d)

Sons of Liberty

2.

Slogan for the Sons of Liberty

a)

Give me liberty, or give me death!

b)

No more British Tea!

c)

Don't fine until you see the whites of their eyes!

d)

No taxation without representation!

3.

Name given to colonial militia

a)

colonial militia

b)

Continental Army

c)

Minutemen

d)

Redcoats

4.

Laws passed by the Parliament that triggered the Revolution

a)

Intolerable Acts

b)

Entolerable Acts

c)

British Acts

d)

Stamp Acts

5.

This event led to 5 colonists being killed

a)

American Revolution

b)

Boston Tea Party

c)

Boston Massacre

d)

Quartering Act

6.

Who was responsible for the Midnight ride to alert colonists about the British

a)

William Penn

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

William Dawes

d)

William Dawes/Paul Revere

7.

Famous Patrick Henry quote

a)

Give me Liberty!

b)

Give me Freedom!

c)

Give me Liberty or give me death!

d)

No taxation without representation

8.

British commanding officer who surrendered at Yorktown

a)

General Gates

b)

Lord Cornwallis

c)

King George III

d)

George Washington

9.

Protest led by women that encouraged boycotting of British tea/cloth

a)

Edenton Tea Party

b)

Boston Tea Party

c)

New Bern Tea Party

d)

Boston Protest

10.

Continental Army General that led the Battle of Guilford Courthouse

a)

Lord Gen. Greene

b)

Gen. George Washington

c)

Marquis de Lafayette

d)

Gen. Nathaniel Greene

11.

To what location did Henry Knox take the cannons for the Continental Army

a)

Fort Ticonderoga

b)

Saratoga

c)

Yorktown

d)

Bunker Hill

12.

What was the location the British wanted to raid that colonists hard stored weapons in an arsenal

a)

Concord

b)

Boston

c)

Saratoga

d)

Ticonderoga

13.

Who did the British hire to help fight the colonists

a)

Redcoats

b)

Native Americans

c)

French

d)

Hessians (Germans)

14.

What colony was left out of the 1st Continental Congress

a)

Georgia

b)

North Carolina

c)

Viginia

d)

Ohio

15.

What document led the movement to separate from the British

a)

Common Sense

b)

Declaration of Rights

c)

The Declaration of Independence

d)

The Constitution

16.

Who was the French General under Washington's command

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

Charles de Gaulle

c)

Benedict Arnold

d)

Gustave Eiffel