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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CBA Review Day 2

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain

a)

Neutrals

b)

Patriots

c)

Loyalists

2.

American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain

a)

Loyalists

b)

Neutrals

c)

Patriots

3.

refusal to obey laws as a form of protest

a)

riots

b)

war

c)

civil disobedience

4.

Grievance

a)

a complaint

b)

a compliment

5.

Where were the first shots of the Revolutionary War fired?

a)

Lexington

b)

Plymouth

c)

Saratoga

d)

Boston

6.

– Lived in Boston, Massachusetts

– Silversmith

– Minuteman

– Member of Sons of Liberty

– Warned the colonists of the approaching British army in the Battle of Lexington & Concord


Which of these individuals is described by the information in the list?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Alexander Hamilton

7.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Alexander Hamilton

8.

Declaration of Independence : Thomas Jefferson :: Common Sense : __________.

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Thomas Paine

d)

Thomas Jefferson

9.

Which of the following is one reason the British government created the Proclamation Line of 1763?

a)

to stop the movement of plantations and slaves into the Ohio Valley

b)

to create an area of colonies for people held in British prisons and jails

c)

to prevent conflict between colonists and American Indians in the Ohio Valley

d)

to allow officials to plan an orderly process of making colonies in the Ohio Valley

10.

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, what policy controlled colonies for ALL the major European trading countries?

a)

revolution

b)

global war

c)

colonialism

d)

mercantilism

11.

Prior to the American Revolution, the British Parliament felt it was appropriate to tax the colonists to help pay the expenses they had run up while fighting a war. What war was it?

a)

Spanish Armada

b)

Indian attacks in the South

c)

French and Indian War

d)

Loyalists

12.

Which of the following is the BEST title for the information above?

a)

British Mercantilism Policies

b)

Causes of Pontiac's Rebellion

c)

Effects of the Townshend Acts

d)

Isolationism in the British Empire

13.

What was the earliest form of taxation without representation that was enforced by the British Parliament in the colonies? (Hint: life aint so sweet)

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Tea Act

14.

Which of the following eras in United States history was set apart by such individuals as Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and Samuel Adams who sought to create an independent American republic?

a)

Westward Expansion

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Revolutionary

d)

Civil War