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Unit 2 Formative Assessment Live (Through American Revolution)

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

North American conflict that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain and ended with the defeat of France and Great Britain in debt.

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

French and Indian War

c)

Lexington and Concord

d)

Townshend Act

2.

How would Britain pay off its debt from the French and Indian War?

a)

withdrawing support from the colonies

b)

reducing services to the colonies

c)

passing new tax laws

d)

requiring the colonists to buy only American goods

3.

What was the impact of the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

It provoked American Indians to attack

b)

It forced colonists to share the control of fur trade with France

c)

It limited the westward expansion of the colonists

d)

It stopped free trade with foreign nations

4.

A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America by acquiring colonist to use special stamped paper for certain documents.

a)

Intolerable Act

b)

Townshend Act

c)

Navigation Act

d)

Stamp Act

5.

A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party.

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Navigation Acts

6.

A radical political organization of men that formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. Wanted colonial independence from England. Organized boycotts and protest.

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Men of Liberty

c)

Committee of Correspondence

d)

Committee of Five

7.

A group set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties.

a)

Committee of Five

b)

Virginia House of Burgesses

c)

Committees of Correspondence

d)

Stamp Act

8.

A pamphlet by Thomas, Paine, published in 1776, that provided logical reasons for the separation of the colonies from Great Britain.

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

Common Sense

9.

The site in Pennsylvania where the Continental army spent the winter of 1777-1778 under extremely harsh conditions.

a)

Trenton

b)

Saratoga

c)

Valley Forge

d)

Yorktown

10.

Battle in New York during the American Revolution that resulted in a major defeat of British troops. Considered the turning point of the war. The French also decided to give aid to the Colonist to defeat the British after this battle.

a)

Saratoga

b)

Trenton

c)

Valley Forge

d)

Yorktown

11.

Ended the French and Indian war and the French lost all land holdings in North America.

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Treaty of Appomattox

c)

Treaty of 1763

d)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

12.

During the Battle of _________________, Americans surprised Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner.

a)

Bunker's Hill

b)

Trenton

c)

Saratoga

d)

Yorktown

13.

The site where the British army formally surrendered to the Continental Army ending the American Revolution.

a)

Saratoga

b)

Trenton

c)

Valley Forge

d)

Yorktown

14.

Prussian born American Revolutionary military leader who

trained the previously undisciplined troops of the Continental Army.

a)

Baron von Steuben

b)

Lord Cornwallis

c)

Ben Franklin

d)

John Adams

15.

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the Patriots?

a)

fighting for personal freedom

b)

plenty of weapons and supplies

c)

fighting on their own land

d)

strong leadership of George Washington

16.

The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation.

a)

Treaty of Paris 1783

b)

Social Contract

c)

Treaty of Tordesillas

d)

Treaty of Ghent

17.

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman made up this group that was given the task of writing the Declaration of Independence.

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

The Fab Five

c)

Committee of Five

d)

Daughters of Liberty

18.

A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five colonists were killed.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Boston Marathon

d)

Boston Bombing

19.

Jefferson was inspired by Enlightenment thinker ___________ _____________, who believed that people have natural rights—rights that belong to them simply because they are human.

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

John Adams

20.

What is this poster's meaning?

a)

The Colonists needed to be united

b)

Colonists were weak & broken

c)

Colonists were the enemy

d)

Colonies need to be independent

21.

Military Leader of the continental army?

a)

George Washington

b)

Paul Revere

c)

John Hancock

d)

John Paul Jones

22.

The Declaration of Independence officially made the colonists free when it was adopted on July 4, 1776.

a)

True

b)

False