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Chapter 4 – The American Revolution Vocabulary Terms

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission?

a)

Samuel Adams

b)

John Hancock

c)

Paul Revere

d)

Benjamin Franklin

2.

What was the method of communication between towns and colonies about British laws?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Committees of Correspondence

c)

Newspapers

d)

Town Criers

3.

What required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items?

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Tea Act

c)

The Townshend Acts

d)

The Intolerable Acts

4.

Who was the female colonist writer who urged a boycott of British goods and helped organize the Committees of Correspondence?

a)

Abigail Adams

b)

Mercy Otis Warren

c)

Phillis Wheatley

d)

Martha Washington

5.

The shooting by British soldiers that killed five colonists was called:

a)

The Boston Massacre

b)

The Lexington Incident

c)

The Concord Clash

d)

The Bunker Hill Battle

6.

The act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea to the colonists was known as:

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Townshend Acts

c)

The Tea Act

d)

The Intolerable Acts

7.

The protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor is known as:

a)

The Boston Tea Party

b)

The Stamp Act Riots

c)

The Intolerable Acts

d)

The Boston Massacre

8.

The laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party were called:

a)

The Intolerable Acts

b)

The Stamp Act

c)

The Townshend Acts

d)

The Quartering Act

9.

What was one of the Intolerable Acts that required colonists to provide room in their homes for British soldiers?

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Quartering Act

c)

The Tea Act

d)

The Townshend Acts

10.

The gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America was known as:

a)

The First Continental Congress

b)

The Stamp Act Congress

c)

The Albany Congress

d)

The First Congress

11.

Who were the colonists who chose to fight for independence?

a)

Loyalists

b)

Patriots

c)

Redcoats

d)

Tories

12.

Who were the members of the civilian volunteer militia?

a)

Minutemen

b)

Professional soldiers

c)

Foreign mercenaries

d)

Government officials

13.

The British soldiers wearing red uniforms were known as:

a)

Redcoats

b)

Bluecoats

c)

Green Berets

d)

Black Watch

14.

The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775 was called:

a)

First Continental Congress

b)

Second Continental Congress

c)

Constitutional Convention

d)

Albany Congress

15.

The army created by the Second Continental Congress to carry out the fight against Britain was called the:

a)

Continental Army

b)

British Army

c)

Union Army

d)

Confederate Army

16.

Who was the Virginian who commanded the Continental Army?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

George Washington

c)

James Madison

d)

Patrick Henry

17.

Which battle was won by the British but resulted in double the American losses?

a)

Battle of Bunker Hill

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Battle of Yorktown

d)

Battle of Lexington and Concord

18.

What was the 47-page pamphlet by Thomas Paine that argued against British rule over America?

a)

Common Sense

b)

The American Crisis

c)

Rights of Man

d)

The Age of Reason

19.

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Adams

d)

Benjamin Franklin

20.

What is the document that formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain?

a)

Constitution

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Articles of Confederation

21.

Who were colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain?

a)

Patriots

b)

Loyalists

c)

Redcoats

d)

Minutemen

22.

What term describes foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay?

a)

Mercenaries

b)

Volunteers

c)

Militia

d)

Regulars

23.

The Battle of Trenton was a battle won by the Patriots against which group?

a)

British Regulars

b)

Mercenary Hessians

c)

Loyalists

d)

French Troops

24.

Which battle was a great victory for the American forces in which British General John Burgoyne surrendered his entire army to American General Horatio Gates?

a)

Battle of Bunker Hill

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Battle of Yorktown

d)

Battle of Trenton

25.

Who was the Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the Patriots?

a)

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

b)

Marquis de Lafayette

c)

Comte de Rochambeau

d)

Bernardo de Gálvez

26.

Who was the Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army?

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

c)

Comte de Rochambeau

d)

Bernardo de Gálvez

27.

Who was a brave and clever naval commander?

a)

John Paul Jones

b)

George Rogers Clark

c)

Francis Marion

d)

Comte de Rochambeau

28.

Who was the commander of 4,000 French troops that aided the Patriot forces at the Battle of Yorktown?

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

c)

Comte de Rochambeau

d)

Bernardo de Gálvez

29.

What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?

a)

Battle of Bunker Hill

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Battle of Yorktown

d)

Battle of Trenton

30.

What was the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States?

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

Treaty of Paris of 1783

c)

Treaty of Ghent

d)

Treaty of Tordesillas