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1
What was the name of the letter sent to King George by the Second Continental Congress?
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris
Common Sense
2
Which act closed the Boston Harbor and forced colonist to house and feed British soldiers?
Intolerable Acts
Towshend Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
3
What word means a refusal to buy goods?
tariff
boycott
repeal
act
4
What was the name of the group that led protests, burned stamps and threatened stamp agents?
Loyalits
Patriots
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
5
What word means a tax on imported goods?
repeal
boycott
tariff
acts
6
Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
George Washington
John Adams
7
Who signed their name larger than anyone else on the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
John Jay
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
8
Which act stated that colonist would only buy tea from the East India Tea Company?
Stamp Act
Intolerable Act
Tea Act
Towshend Act
9
Who was made famous by a poem written by Henry Wadsworh Lonfellow?
Samuel Prescott
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
George Washington
10
What word means to cancel?
act
repeal
tariff
boycott
11
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Robert Livingston
Benjamin Franklin
12
Who is the artist of this painting?
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
13
Who wrote the pamphlet, "Common Sense"?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Gage
14
Who made the statement, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Samuel Adams
John Adams
George Washington
Patrick Henry
15
What was the name of the act that put a tax on all printed materials?
Towshend Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
16
What do you call a soldier from one country who is paid to fight for another country?
minute men
mercenary
Militia
Myers army
17
Who drew this cartoon?
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
18
What is the name of Britian's law making assembly?
House of Burgesses
Parliament
King's Court
Congress
19
Who was the British General that surrendered at Yorktown?
Gen. Cornwallis
Gen. Washington
Gen. Myers
Gen.Thomas Gage
20
Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
Gen Washington
Gen Gage
Gen Cornwallis
Gen Burgoyne
21
Which battle was known as the turning point of the war?
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Ticonderoga
Battle of Lexington
22
What were the British hoping for when they marched to Concord and Lexington?
start the revolution
arrest John Hancock
military supplies
arrest Samuel Adams
23
This picture in of what event?
French and Indian War
Boston Massacre
Battle of Lexington
Boston Tea Party
24
What act placed a tariff (tax) on imported goods like paper, wool and tea?
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Towshend Acts