Unit 3 Test

Question 1

A rule that made American colonists provide British soldiers supplies or housing they needed.

Accepted Answer

Quartering Act

Question 2

This group formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British.

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 3

One of the men who warned colonists that the British soldiers were coming to attack Lexington.

Accepted Answer

Paul Revere

Question 4

This granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 5

This battle ended the Revolutionary War with an American-French victory over British forces.

Accepted Answer

Battle of Yorktown

Question 6

The man who was selected to lead the American troops in battle against the British.

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 7

The British passed these acts in response to American rebellions such as the Boston Tea Party.

Accepted Answer

Coercive Acts

Question 8

The Declaration of Independence was signed before the Revolutionary War started.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

What did the Stamp Act tax?

Accepted Answer

Printed materials like newspapers and legal documents

Question 10

What was the meeting of delegates from the colonies to discuss the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act Congress

Question 11

A turning point in the war that showed the French that the colonists could defeat the British.

Accepted Answer

Battle of Saratoga

Question 12

On what date was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776

Question 13

An unofficial British policy avoiding harsh enforcement of parliamentary laws in the colonies.

Accepted Answer

Salutary Negelct

Question 14

British soldiers left Boston to capture this Sons of Liberty leader, related to John Adams

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 15

Without the ___ the Americans would not have been able to win the Revolution.

Accepted Answer

French

Question 16

A person who is loyal to Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

Loyalist

Question 17

The army of the colonies was called what?

Accepted Answer

Continental Army

Question 18

A victory in SC for the Patriots over the Loyalists in the Southern campaign of the Revolution.

Accepted Answer

Battle of King's Mountain

Question 19

What happened that caused this territorial expansion for the American colonies?

Accepted Answer

French & Indian War

Question 20

A term for a person who is loyal to the American Colonies.

Accepted Answer

Patriot

Question 21

This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War and took place outside of Boston, MA.

Accepted Answer

Lexington & Concord

Question 22

In response to the Tea Act a group of colonists protested & threw British tea in Boston Harbor.

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 23

A meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies that met in 1774 before the American Revolution.

Accepted Answer

First Continental Congress

Question 24

A mob of colonists threw ice and rocks and threatened to attack British troops, leading to this

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 25

In which city was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 26

Laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies.

Accepted Answer

Navigation Acts

Question 27

A meeting of colonists in the summer of 1775 where the plans to fight the British were formed.

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Second Contiental Congress

Question 28

A colonist petition to the King of England to end fighting, but it was refused and war began.

Accepted Answer

Olive Branch Petition

Question 29

The agreement that ended the American Revolutionary War between the colonies and Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Paris, 1783

Question 30

Why did the British government decide to tax the colonies?

Accepted Answer

To pay for the French & Indian War

Question 31

This man helped write the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 32

An act of Parliament that got rid of the Stamp Act and lessened the impact of the Sugar Act.

Accepted Answer

Declaratory Act

Question 33

This man wrote Common Sense to persuade the colonists to break away from English rule.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 34

What is another name for a person who is loyal to Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

Tory

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Unit 3 Test

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