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Unit 3: American Revolution

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Someone who is unhappy with British laws and believes the colonies should separate from England.

a)

Tory

b)

Patriot

c)

Loyalist

2.

How did England try to keep the peace between Native Americans and the colonists after the French and Indian War?

a)

The Proclamation of 1763

b)

The Townshend Acts

c)

The Treaty of Paris

3.

What was an American colonist called who spoke out against the actions of England?

a)

Patriot

b)

Loyalist/Tory

4.

What do most historians believe caused the Boston Massacre?

a)

British soldiers fired on the colonists for no reason

b)

A crowd of angry colonists provoked the soldiers

c)

A British officer gave the soldiers an order to shoot at the crowd

5.

How was the French and Indian War a cause of the American Revolution?

a)

England was angry after losing the war to France

b)

The war increased the number of French people in America

c)

The war was expensive and left England in debt

6.

How did colonists show their anger at being forced to buy from the British East India Company?

a)

the Boston Tea Party

b)

Kidnapped tax collectors

c)

the Boston Massacre

7.

Who wrote the pamphlet, Common Sense, that persuaded colonists to join the Patriot cause?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Samuel Adams

8.

Who is responsible for writing most of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

John Adams

9.

The American soldiers faced a harsh winter and a lack of food and supplies at which location?

a)

Saratoga

b)

Valley Forge

c)

Yorktown

10.

Which law required colonists to provide food and shelter for British soldiers?

a)

the Townshend Acts

b)

the Quartering Act

c)

the Stamp Act

11.

What was an American colonist called who still considered themselves British?

a)

Patriot

b)

Loyalist/Tory

12.

Which battle, considered a turning point, convinced the French to become an ally of the Americans?

a)

Saratoga

b)

Bunker Hill

c)

Trenton

13.

Which document ended the war?

a)

The Olive Branch petition

b)

The Proclamation of 1763

c)

The Treaty of Paris

14.

Which law required colonists to buy from the British East India Company?

a)

the Townshend Acts

b)

the Tea Act

c)

the Stamp Act