WorksheetsChapter 4 – The American Revolution Vocabulary Terms
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who was the Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission?
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin
What was the method of communication between towns and colonies about British laws?
Telegraph
Committees of Correspondence
Newspapers
Town Criers
What required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items?
The Stamp Act
The Tea Act
The Townshend Acts
The Intolerable Acts
Who was the female colonist writer who urged a boycott of British goods and helped organize the Committees of Correspondence?
Abigail Adams
Mercy Otis Warren
Phillis Wheatley
Martha Washington
The shooting by British soldiers that killed five colonists was called:
The Boston Massacre
The Lexington Incident
The Concord Clash
The Bunker Hill Battle
The act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea to the colonists was known as:
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Tea Act
The Intolerable Acts
The protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor is known as:
The Boston Tea Party
The Stamp Act Riots
The Intolerable Acts
The Boston Massacre
The laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party were called:
The Intolerable Acts
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Quartering Act
What was one of the Intolerable Acts that required colonists to provide room in their homes for British soldiers?
The Stamp Act
The Quartering Act
The Tea Act
The Townshend Acts
The gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America was known as:
The First Continental Congress
The Stamp Act Congress
The Albany Congress
The First Congress
Who were the colonists who chose to fight for independence?
Loyalists
Patriots
Redcoats
Tories
Who were the members of the civilian volunteer militia?
Minutemen
Professional soldiers
Foreign mercenaries
Government officials
The British soldiers wearing red uniforms were known as:
Redcoats
Bluecoats
Green Berets
Black Watch
The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775 was called:
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Constitutional Convention
Albany Congress
The army created by the Second Continental Congress to carry out the fight against Britain was called the:
Continental Army
British Army
Union Army
Confederate Army
Who was the Virginian who commanded the Continental Army?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Which battle was won by the British but resulted in double the American losses?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Lexington and Concord
What was the 47-page pamphlet by Thomas Paine that argued against British rule over America?
Common Sense
The American Crisis
Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
What is the document that formally announced the colonies' break from Great Britain?
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Who were colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain?
Patriots
Loyalists
Redcoats
Minutemen
What term describes foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay?
Mercenaries
Volunteers
Militia
Regulars
The Battle of Trenton was a battle won by the Patriots against which group?
British Regulars
Mercenary Hessians
Loyalists
French Troops
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?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Trenton
Who was the Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army without pay and used his money and influence to support the Patriots?
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette
Comte de Rochambeau
Bernardo de Gálvez
Who was the Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army?
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
Comte de Rochambeau
Bernardo de Gálvez
Who was a brave and clever naval commander?
John Paul Jones
George Rogers Clark
Francis Marion
Comte de Rochambeau
Who was the commander of 4,000 French troops that aided the Patriot forces at the Battle of Yorktown?
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
Comte de Rochambeau
Bernardo de Gálvez
What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Trenton
What was the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States?
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Tordesillas
