WorksheetsAmerican Revolution Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
To refuse to participate in or buy something until certain conditions are met.
Boycott
Minutemen
Propaganda
Loyalist
A colonist who supported independence from England during the American Revolution period.
Loyalist
Minutemen
Redcoat
Patriot
A colonist who sided with the British during the American Revolution period.
Neutral
Patriot
Loyalist
Minutemen
Groups of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight in a minute’s notice.
Minutemen
Sons of Liberty
Founding Fathers
Patriots
Misleading information that is used to promote or publicize a political cause or point of view
Petition
Propaganda
Parliament
Document
Who is famous for saying "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"?
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
John Adams
Paul Revere
Who is credited with writing The Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Mr. Passio
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
What is "Taxation"?
Process of collecting money from citizens in order to fund government expenses
Changing from one governmental structure to another
American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain
Refusal to buy something as a form of protest
British Soldiers are called (a)
An act of Parliament in 1765 which levied a direct tax on almost all paper items in the colonies including legal documents, pamphlets and playing cards
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Of the diseases listed below, only 3 were contracted primarily during the American Revolution. Which disease was not as common?
Yellow Fever
Smallpox
Lyme Disease
Malaria
An infantryman's gun containing a long barrel of which is fired from the shoulder is called a (a)
The Boston Tea Party was mainly a dispute over what?
Paper goods
Tea
No Taxation without Representation
Land
The Boston Massacre was a devastating.........
stand still in the revolutionary war
accident where patriots turn on one another
Street Fight that ended with Civilians being killed by British soldiers
fight between the French and the Native Americans
A government run by a ruler who took control by force and who has complete power over a country is called a....
Legislature
Democracy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Soldiers who fought on horseback
Allies
Turncoats
Cavalry
Minutemen
Sealing off a place to prevent goods/people from entering or leaving is referred to as a
Institution
Saber
Union jack
Blockade
What year did the War of 1812 start?
1812
1813
1814
1815
To officially/legally prohibit something
Repeal
Ban
Sociial
Revolt
All of the following were important figures/groups during the American Revolution except for..........
Mr. Knowles the snake man!
Loyalists/British, Patriots/Colonists
Founding Fathers
Patrick Henry
Native Americans
