Chapter 4, The American Revolution

Question 1

Which of the following was not included in the Intolerable Acts?

Accepted Answer

Bostonians losing freedom of speech

Question 2

What did the First Continental Congress establish?

Accepted Answer

Both answers 1 and 3

Question 3

True or False: More citizens could vote in Great Britain, than in the Thirteen Colonies.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What major advantage did Great Britain believe they had in the South?

Accepted Answer

Loyalist support

Question 5

What major issue was Great Britain dealing with?

Accepted Answer

War debt

Question 6

True or False: France decided to ally with the Continental Army after the Battle of Saratoga.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What happened at the Second Continental Congress?

Accepted Answer

Both answers 1 and 3

Question 8

What natural rights does the Declaration of Independence state all men have?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 9

What angered the colonists, the most, about taxes levied by Parliament?

Accepted Answer

The colonists had no representation in Parliament

Question 10

True or False: Washington soldiers create diversion, to win the Battle of Princeton.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

True or False: The Battle of King's Mountain was fought between Patriot and Loyalist militias.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

How did Great Britain attempt to solve their debt problem?

Accepted Answer

By levying taxes on the Colonies

Question 13

What does Thomas Paine believe the colonies should do?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 14

True or False: Cornwallis and the Redcoats were trapped at Yorktown.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What positive impact did the Battles of Princeton and Trenton have on Patriots?

Accepted Answer

Morale and enlistments improved

Question 16

True or False: Although the British won the Battle of Bunker Hill, they suffered more deaths.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

True or False: During the Battle of Bunker Hill, the British ran out of ammunition.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Why did Great Britain decide to stop fighting the war?

Accepted Answer

They were still in debt.

Question 19

Why did France ally with the Patriots?

Accepted Answer

They hated Great Britain

Question 20

What types of colonists were elected to the Assembly, or Lower House?

Accepted Answer

Both answers 2 and 3

Question 21

What types of people tended to be loyalists?

Accepted Answer

Both answers 1 and 3

Question 22

True or False: Washington only wanted to fight the British when conditions were favorable.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

True or False: Women received little rights after the Revolution.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

What did the Treaty of Paris give the Patriots?

Accepted Answer

Independence

Question 25

True or False: The Intolerable Acts were passed in response to the Boston tea Party.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

What did the Stamp Act tax?

Accepted Answer

All printed materials

Question 27

Which of the following, was France not able to help the Continental Army with?

Accepted Answer

Stopping British ships from entering New Orleans

Question 28

True or False: John Adams wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

True or False: The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt at peace with King George III.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

True or False: The British were led by General William Howe, into the Battle of Yorktown.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

Who levied taxes on the Colonies?

Accepted Answer

Parliament

Question 32

What did the Townshend Acts tax?

Accepted Answer

glass, led, paint, paper and tea

Question 33

True or False: Boycotting is an example of economic protest.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

True or False: The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the Stamp Act.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

True or False: Washington crossed the Delaware River, during the Battle of Princeton.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

True or False: The Sons of Liberty were led by John Adams?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

What is Yorktown, Virginia located on?

Accepted Answer

A peninsula

Question 38

What types of resources did the Continental Army lack?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 39

Which of the following is not a form of protest, used by the colonists?

Accepted Answer

Peaceful protest

Question 40

Which of the following, was not a reason why Great Britain lost the war?

Accepted Answer

The Patriots performed better on the battlefield

Question 41

What did the Sugar Act do?

Accepted Answer

Both answers 1 and 2

Question 42

What was the most effective form of protest the colonists used, to repeal the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Economic

Question 43

What were the British trying to capture, at Lexington and Concord?

Accepted Answer

Arms

Question 44

What happened at Lexington and Concord?

Accepted Answer

The first battle(s) of the Revolution

Question 45

What advantages did Great Britain have over the Patriots, heading into the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 46

True or False: The Quartering Act allowed British soldiers to stay in the homes of colonists.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

What French military official was sent to lead French troops, during the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 48

Which of the following wasn't a goal of Great Britain, during the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Control the southern countryside

Question 49

Why did Parliament believe they could tax the colonists?

Accepted Answer

They viewed the colonists as British

Question 50

True or False: Colonists were alienated by the British hiring of Hessian mercenaries.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 51

Which factor, led to a Patriot victory at Yorktown?

Accepted Answer

The French Navy

Question 52

What types of people tended to be Patriots?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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