TRUE or FALSE The Battle of Bunker Hill was a fight for strategic high ground near Boston Harbor.

TRUE or FALSE The Patriots were holding the British off at Bunker Hill until they ran out of ammunition.

TRUE or FALSE The Boston Massacre resulted in dozens of colonists' deaths.

TRUE or FALSE The Boston Massacre was used as propaganda to convince colonists of all regions to be even more upset with Britain.

TRUE or FALSE The Boston Tea Party was an act by the British that upset the colonists.

TRUE or FALSE The Boston Tea Party was a reaction of the colonists to the Tea Act.

What means to stop purchasing goods from a nation or company in order to try to change policy?

TRUE or FALSE The Coercive Acts were intended as punishment to Boston and Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.

TRUE or FALSE The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts were meant to separate Boston from the support of the other colonies.

TRUE or FALSE The Coercive Acts required colonists to quarter soldiers in their homes.

TRUE or FALSE The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts are what caused the angry colonist mob whose acts led to the Boston Massacre.

TRUE or FALSE It was angry colonists gathering in a mob and taunting, throwing things, and threatening a handful of Redcoats that led to the Boston Massacre.

What was a single colony's government called?

TRUE or FALSE Committees of Correspondence wrote letters back to Britain to inform the King of what was happening in the colonies.

TRUE or FALSE The pamphlet 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine was written to convince colonists that independence from Britain was crucial to their future.

TRUE or FALSE The pamphlet 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine did not change many colonists' minds about whether or not they wanted independence. They had mostly already decided which side they were on.

TRUE or FALSE Concord was where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired.

TRUE or FALSE Concord was where British troops marched from Boston to try to take control of arms and ammunition the colonists were gathering to help them against the British if fighting started.

TRUE or FALSE The army to fight for all of the colonies (the Continental Army) was formed before the Battle of Bunker Hill.

TRUE or FALSE George Washington was originally chosen to be the general of the British Army.

TRUE or FALSE George Washington was chosen to be general of the new Continental Army.

TRUE or FALSE The first Continental Congress was a gathering of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.

TRUE or FALSE The two biggest decisions of the first Continental Congress were that the colonies had to be united to have success with Britain, and to send the King a letter asking him to repeal 13 Acts parliament had laid on the colonies since 1763.

TRUE or FALSE The tax collectors for the British were called customs officials.

TRUE or FALSE Most customs officials worked at coastal ports of entry in larger colonial cities.

TRUE or FALSE Customs officials were known for going house to house to tax the colonists.

TRUE or FALSE The Declaration of Independence was written at the first Continental Congress.

TRUE or FALSE The Declaration was essentially just a list of grievances against Britain.

TRUE or FALSE The Declatory Act was another tax from Parliament on the colonists.

TRUE or FALSE The main point of the Declatory Act was to tell the colonists that Parliament was in charge of them in all matters, not their local governments.

What do you call representatives that were sent to the Continental Congress to represent their colonies in decisions to be made for the colonies?

TRUE or FALSE An empire is a country that has territories away from its location that it controls.

TRUE or FALSE Britain was an empire.

TRUE or FALSE The engraving image that Paul Revere made to show colonists what happened at the Boston Massacre was a fair and representative depiction of the actual events.

TRUE or FALSE The end of the Seven Years (French & Indian) War was the beginning of the Road to the Revolution both because of debt Britain had from the war and because of vast amounts of territory it forbade its citizens to move to.

TRUE or FALSE One reason the British made the Proclamation of 1763 was because they wanted to keep the colonists near the coast where they could be controlled, taxed, and would spend money on British imports.

Where was the line in the Proclamation of 1763 that the colonists were forbidden to move west of?

Which term means a formal complaint given to those in charge?

What word means to legally bring goods into a country from outside that country?

What word means to illegally bring goods into a country from outside that country?

TRUE or FALSE John Locke, the British thinker, wrote that people were born with natural rights in life.

TRUE or FALSE Locke's ideas about rights all men are born with helped shape what was written in the Declaration of Independence.

TRUE or FALSE John Locke wrote the pamphlet called 'Common Sense'.

TRUE or FALSE Lexington was the location where the first shot of the American Revolution was believed to be fired.

TRUE or FALSE The first shot at Lexington is known to have been fired by the British.

TRUE or FALSE During the first fighting at Lexington and Concord, the British came out on top.

TRUE or FALSE On the march back to Boston from Lexington and Concord, the Patriots were more successful than the British.

TRUE or FALSE One of the disadvantages of the British Army was their uniforms.

What is the best synonym for liberty?

TRUE or FALSE Loyalists were colonists who were loyal to the plan to fight the British and earn independence as a separate nation.

TRUE or FALSE Not all colonists wanted to fight the British for Independence. Some wanted a peaceful solution where they remained part of the empire.

TRUE or FALSE Militia were an official army.

TRUE or FALSE The militia that separate regions formed were made up of volunteers who were sometimes completely untrained.

TRUE or FALSE Minutemen were given this nickname because that is how quickly they volunteered to fight as Patriots.

TRUE or FALSE Nonimportation agreements were agreements made at the Stamp Act Congress that the colonists would not by goods sent to the colonies by the British.

TRUE or FALSE Nonimportation agreements were a punishment the King gave to the colonies for their rebellious behavior.

TRUE or FALSE The Olive Branch petition was written from the Continental Congress to King George to officially declare independence from Britain.

TRUE or FALSE The Olive Branch Petition was the 2nd Continental Congress' effort to try one last time to convince King George to avoid war with Britain.

What was the name of the law-making body in Britain?

TRUE or FALSE Patriots were colonists who wanted to avoid war with Britain and remain a part of the empire after solving problems with Britain peacefully.

TRUE or FALSE All colonists were Patriots.

What is the word for a formal, written request to a government or group in charge?

TRUE or FALSE A port of entry could be any place in the colonies where items were bought and sold.

TRUE or FALSE Propaganda is exaggerated, untrue, misleading, or only part of the truth shared with a group to influence how they feel about something controversial.

TRUE or FALSE Propaganda is used in politics and conflicts in modern times.

TRUE or FALSE Quartering troops meant you had to allow them to live in your city.

TRUE or FALSE Quartering troops meant colonists had to build barracks for soldiers to live in and provide them with food.

TRUE or FALSE Redcoats was a nickname given to British troops because they had a reputation for being violent and spilling blood of whoever they wanted.

What word was used in this unit to mean to overturn a law?

TRUE or FALSE Taxation without representation was a problem for the colonists because laws and taxes were being voted on and made without any colonists representing the colonies and voting on their behalf.

TRUE or FALSE Taxation without representation means forcing colonists to do what you want.

TRUE or FALSE Civil disobedience involves non-violent acts that protest the current political or cultural structure.

TRUE or FALSE The colonist mob's behavior at the Boston Massacre is an example of civil disobedience.

TRUE or FALSE A resolution in this historical sense is a decision made by a governing group.

TRUE or FALSE The Second Continental Congress formed an army to fight for all of the colonies combined.

TRUE or FALSE The Second Continental Congress became the first governing body for the thirteen colonies.

TRUE or FALSE The colonists smuggled goods in order to avoid paying British taxes.

TRUE or FALSE The British government lowered taxes with the Sugar Act as a way to try to convince the colonists not to smuggle.

TRUE or FALSE The Sons of Liberty was a radical group that organized colonial protests and acts against British laws and taxes.

TRUE or FALSE The Sons of Liberty was a Loyalist group.

TRUE or FALSE The Stamp Act Congress was the first time the colonies gathered and agreed to boycott British goods in order to protest British taxes.

TRUE or FALSE 'The shot heard 'round the world' is called that because not only did it start the American Revolution but other countries in the world wanted to see if the colonists were capable of gaining their independence from Britain in a war.

TRUE or FALSE When the Tea Act was passed by parliament, tea was the only item the British were taxing the colonists for.

TRUE or FALSE King George's government over the colonists was a tyranny.