24/25 Module 4 American Revolution

Question 1

Which of the following did the Intolerable Acts NOT do?

Accepted Answer

place a tax on tea

Question 2

To deal with smuggling allowed custom officials to enter any location. It was known as this?

Accepted Answer

Writs of Assistance

Question 3

What Was The Worst American Defeat During The American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The Battle Of Charleston 1780

Question 4

The British government tried to stop smuggling and established vice- admiralty courts with what Act?

Accepted Answer

Sugar Act

Question 5

This act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 6

What were the 2 advantages that the British had:

Accepted Answer

Strongest Navy in the world, experienced army, and wealthy., More manufacturing, larger population

Question 7

Friedrich von Steuben

Accepted Answer

drilled Patriots at Valley Forge

Question 8

Forced colonials to house British soldiers.

Accepted Answer

Quartering Act

Question 9

Which Patriot's famous words were , " I have not yet begun to fight"?

Accepted Answer

John Paul Jones

Question 10

the Marquis de Lafayette

Accepted Answer

French nobleman who became Washington's trusted aide

Question 11

What battle resulted in a British surrender and an American victory in the war?

Accepted Answer

Yorktown

Question 12

Turning point of the war. Convinced France and Spain to join the war and supply the Americans: Battle of Saratoga

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Patriots

Accepted Answer

Americans who supported independence

Question 14

The law that forced Americans to not move west past the Appalachian Mountains was called

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 15

King George III compromised with the colonists and told them to submit or be ready for military solution

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

The last battle of the America Revolution occurred at Yorktown in 1781

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Benjamin Franklin

Accepted Answer

Paris to convince the French to support American Revolution

Question 18

George III

Accepted Answer

opposed any compromise with the American colonists

Question 19

Preamble, Natural Rights, List of Grievances, and Resolution of Independence

Accepted Answer

Parts of Declaration of Independence

Question 20

Boston Tea Party: Organized by Sons of Liberty in regards to the tax on tea and dumped tea in Boston Harbor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Who was Benedict Arnold?

Accepted Answer

General in American Revolutionary War, became nations greatest traitor

Question 22

Lexington and Concord "Shot Heard 'Round the World" Which TWO rode out to the countryside call out to militia?

Accepted Answer

William Dawes, Paul Revere

Question 23

At least 1/3 of all American colonists were Tories/loyalists

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

responsible for the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 25

Quartering Act

Accepted Answer

forced colonials to house British soldiers

Question 26

Why was George Washington called America's Cincinnatus?

Accepted Answer

defeated Britain and went home to farm at Mt. Vernon

Question 27

Place where the Patriot forces endured a winter of terrible suffering

Accepted Answer

Valley Forge

Question 28

Treaty of Paris- CHOOSE 3

Accepted Answer

British promised to withdraw troops from American territory, US border extended to to the Appalachian Mts., Americans required to return land and property to Loyalists

Question 29

Who was the principle author of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 30

The French were the American colonists' most important ally during the American Revolution

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Who wrote Common Sense?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 32

Choose the THREE answers that were the British Victory Plans for the Revolution

Accepted Answer

Divide New England- Cut the head off the snake (take the Hudson River), Pacify (make peace) with New England, Invade the American south to trap Washington's Army

Question 33

America's most important foreign ally in the Revolution

Accepted Answer

France

Question 34

Persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act? Famous line: Give me liberty or give me death!

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

Question 35

How did the Stamp, Quartering, and Sugar act contribute to the start of the Revolutionary War

Accepted Answer

angered colonists who believed their liberties were violated

Question 36

Tories

Accepted Answer

Another name for Americans remained loyal to Great Britain

Question 37

MOST of the soldiers in the Continental Army signed up for the duration of the war

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

The Patriots scored a victory on Christmas night 1776 when Washington crossed the Delaware River

Accepted Answer

Trenton

Question 39

The American colonies declared independence from Great Britain in July 1775

Accepted Answer

False

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