WorksheetsCh 4 Acts & Important Revolutionary People
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Started the Sons of Liberty, created the Committee of Correspondence, and participated in the Boston Tea Party.
George Washington
Patrick Henry
John Paul Jones
Samuel Adams
Who was an activist against the British government and author of “Common Sense”?
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Frankin
John Locke
What pamphlet was created with the intention of getting American colonists to push for independence from Great Britain?
Poor Richard's Almanac
Declaration of Independence
Common Sense
Declaration of Rights & Grievances
Natural Rights, Universal Order, Social Contract Theory, and Separation of Powers are all ideas that influenced and were addressed by what document?
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights & Grievances
Olive Branch Petition
What British philosopher influenced the Declaration of Independence with his ideas?
Marquis de Lafayette
Thomas Gage
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
What famous Virginia orator introduced arguments like “no taxation without representation” and “give me liberty or give me death”?
Richard Henry Lee
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
What Virginia delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress introduced the resolution for independence?
Patrick Henry
Richard Henry Lee
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
What Virginia planter was named commander of the Continental Army?
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Charles Cornwallis
George Washington
What 19 year old French aristocrat volunteered to help train and lead colonial troops?
Gen. Rochambeau
Napoleon
Marquis de Lafayette
King Louis XIV
Who was the military governor of Massachusetts under the Coercive Acts?
Maj. John Pitcairn
Gen. William Howe
Gen. Thomas Gage
Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson
What member of the Sons of Liberty created a depiction of the Boston Massacre and made a famous “midnight ride”?
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Ethan Allen
Paul Revere
What act was created to replace the Molasses Act of 1733?
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Currency Act
Sugar Act
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain that began taxing the colonies?
Lord Frederick North
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Lord George Grenville
Lord William Pitt
What act was created telling the colonists that they couldn’t print their own money?
Declaratory Act
Currency Act
Navigation Act
Quebec Act
What act was created that taxed printed/published materials?
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Currency Act
What organization was created in October 1765 against the Stamp Act and created a Declaration of Right & Grievances?
Stamp Act Congress
1st Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
2nd Continental Congress
What Prime Minister repealed the Stamp Act following a boycott by the colonies?
Lord George Grenville
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Lord William Pitt
Lord Frederick North
Which act restates British sovereignty over the colonies?
Sovereignty Act
Tory Act
Declaratory Act
Navigation Act
Which act placed a small tax on a variety of products, but expanded writs of assistance and used funds to pay colonial judges and governors?
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Act
Proclamation Act of 1763
Which event left five colonists dead and was used as propaganda against Great Britain?
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Lexington & Concord
Bunker Hill
The destruction of what ship by the colonists off the coast of Rhode Island caused the relationship between Britain and the colonies to worsen?
Lusitania
Queen Mary
Liberty
Gaspee
What act was passed to save the British East India Company?
Sugar Act
Molasses Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
What event did the Tea Act lead to?
Boston Massacre
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Boston Tea Party
Lexington & Concord
What punitive acts were passed as punishment for the action of the people in Boston in 1774?
Coercive Acts
Quebec Act
Declaratory Act
Quartering Act
Which colony did not send a representative to the 1st Continental Congress?
New York
Georgia
Virginia
Massachusetts
Where were the opening shots of the American Revolution fired? (aka “the shot heard round the world”)
Lexington & Concord
Bunker Hill
Saratoga
Yorktown
Who negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France during the American Revolution?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Ben Franklin
The Coercive Acts were called the ________________ Acts by the colonists.
Impossible
Intolerable
Navigation
Writs of Assistance
What angered colonists by restricting them from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?
The Navigation Acts of 1651
The Declaratory Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Treaty of Paris
What act restricted the ability to self-govern in British Canada?
Proclamation of 1763
Writs of Assistance
Declaratory Act
Quebec Act
After the French & Indian War, what acts were enforced by Britain that weren't enforced before?
The Quebec Acts
The Navigation Acts
The Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts
