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Study Guide — Revolutionary War Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 10hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Write the answers. Choose the correct term: group that began meeting on May 10, 1775.

a)

Second Continental Congress

b)

First Continental Congress

c)

British Parliament

d)

Continental Army

2.

Write the answers. Choose the correct person: Pennsylvania delegate who spent his own money to pay for Washington’s soldiers.

a)

Robert Morris

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Paine

3.

Write the answers. Choose the correct authority: only group that could appoint men to positions as army officers.

a)

Congress

b)

The individual colonies

c)

The Continental Army

d)

British Parliament

4.

Write the answers. Choose the correct document: document written to define why the Revolutionary War was being fought.

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

United States Constitution

d)

Olive Branch Petition

5.

Write the answers. Choose the correct river: river that Washington and his men crossed in December 1776 in order to march against the Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey.

a)

Delaware River

b)

Hudson River

c)

Potomac River

d)

Ohio River

6.

Write the answers. Choose the correct battle: American victory that was a turning point of the Revolutionary War.

a)

Saratoga

b)

Bunker Hill

c)

Trenton

d)

Lexington and Concord

7.

Write the answers. Choose the correct term: foreign soldiers hired by the British government to fight against American forces.

a)

Mercenaries

b)

Minutemen

c)

Militia

d)

Patriots

8.

Write the answers. Choose the correct person: French nobleman who joined the cause for American independence when he was only nineteen.

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

Baron von Steuben

c)

Comte de Rochambeau

d)

Benedict Arnold

9.

Write the answers. Choose the correct person: man who fought the British in several battles and gave America a strong claim to the frontier.

a)

George Rogers Clark

b)

Daniel Boone

c)

Francis Marion

d)

Nathanael Greene

10.

Write the answers. Choose the correct person: Iroquois Indian chief who fought in many battles against the American forces during the Revolutionary War.

a)

Joseph Brant

b)

Tecumseh

c)

Pontiac

d)

Sitting Bull

11.

What is true about General Charles Cornwallis?

a)

He led the British into the interior of the southern states.

b)

The British hoped he would unify the North as Loyalist Colonies.

c)

HE defeated General Horatio Gates in Camden, South Carolina.

12.

How did Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter influence the Revolutionary war?

a)

They would duck into the wilderness to avoid losing a fight and then return to skirmish the British.

b)

They helped the British win victories in the south.

c)

They gathered militias to harass British troops.

13.

What is true of Nathanael Greene's role in the Revolutionary War?

a)

He was defeated by the British at Gilford Courthouse in North Carolina.

b)

He was unable to decisively defeat Cornwallis.

c)

He was undefeated in the South.

14.

What is true of the Americans victory at Yorktown?

a)

The British forces had plenty of people to fight in the war.

b)

The British forces were outnumbered.

c)

Washington and French forces set up artillery outside the British lines.

d)

Cornwallis sent his second in command to surrender on October 19, 1781.

15.

What is true of the Peace of Paris?

a)

The United states maintained control of the 13 colonies.

b)

The United States gained more benefits than any other nation.

c)

France regained fishing rights off the coast of Canada.

d)

The British maintained control of the 13 colonies.

16.

What is the Ohio River Valley?

a)

where people had to fight in the war.

b)

where the French and Indian war was fought.

c)

where the Indian and Polish was was fought.

17.

(a)   is a group of citizens the defend their country in an emergency.

18.

(a)   is a British National legislature that makes laws and discusses issues.

19.

What is a French military site that was captured by Britain in the French and Indian war?

a)

Fort Duquesne

b)

Fort Myers

c)

Fort Harbor

20.

(a)   is a belief that disputes should be resolved peacefully without war.

21.

What is the secret organization that worked to oppose parliment?

a)

Sons of Anarchy

b)

Sons of Liberty

c)

Sons of God

22.

Five colonists died and six more were injured in a disturbing event on March 5, 1770, called the (a)   .

23.

A band of angry citizens boarded British ships and threw the tea overboard in the (a)   .

24.

Colonists called the harsh British laws created to coerce Boston to behave the (a)   .

25.

Militia forces during the Revolutionary War were trained to be ready to fight at a minutes notice.

a)

minutemen

b)

secondmen

c)

harbormen

26.

Colonists who were loyal to King George III during the Revolutionary War; also called Tories

a)
Loyalists
b)
Independents
c)
Patriots
27.

Colonists fighting for more freedom from King George III during the Revolutionary War; also called wigs

a)
Redcoats
b)
Patriots
c)
Loyalists
28.

First battles of the Revolutionary War; fought on April 19, 1775

a)
Battles of Lexington and Concord
b)
Skirmish at Fort Ticonderoga
c)
Siege of Yorktown
29.

Battle in June 1775 over a hill that could house canons; British victory.

a)
Battle of Concord
b)
Battle of Bunker Hill
c)
Battle of Saratoga
30.

refusing to use, buy, or deal with a store, company, or organization in order to express a protest

a)
Demonstrate
b)
Boycott
c)
Protest