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WorksheetsUnit 3: American Revolution
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Someone who is unhappy with British laws and believes the colonies should separate from England.
Tory
Patriot
Loyalist
How did England try to keep the peace between Native Americans and the colonists after the French and Indian War?
The Proclamation of 1763
The Townshend Acts
The Treaty of Paris
What was an American colonist called who spoke out against the actions of England?
Patriot
Loyalist/Tory
What do most historians believe caused the Boston Massacre?
British soldiers fired on the colonists for no reason
A crowd of angry colonists provoked the soldiers
A British officer gave the soldiers an order to shoot at the crowd
How was the French and Indian War a cause of the American Revolution?
England was angry after losing the war to France
The war increased the number of French people in America
The war was expensive and left England in debt
How did colonists show their anger at being forced to buy from the British East India Company?
the Boston Tea Party
Kidnapped tax collectors
the Boston Massacre
Who wrote the pamphlet, Common Sense, that persuaded colonists to join the Patriot cause?
Paul Revere
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Who is responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
John Adams
The American soldiers faced a harsh winter and a lack of food and supplies at which location?
Saratoga
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Which law required colonists to provide food and shelter for British soldiers?
the Townshend Acts
the Quartering Act
the Stamp Act
What was an American colonist called who still considered themselves British?
Patriot
Loyalist/Tory
Which battle, considered a turning point, convinced the French to become an ally of the Americans?
Saratoga
Bunker Hill
Trenton
Which document ended the war?
The Olive Branch petition
The Proclamation of 1763
The Treaty of Paris
Which law required colonists to buy from the British East India Company?
the Townshend Acts
the Tea Act
the Stamp Act
