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American Revolution Terms and Key Individuals

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  • Q1
    Who is the Author of "Common Sense?"
    John Adams
    Haym Solomon
    Thomas Paine
    Samuel Adams
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  • Q2
    Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
    Intolerable Acts
    unalienable rights
    U.S. Constitution
    Declaration of Independence
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  • Q3
    Who wrote letters to her husband describing life on the home-front?
    Abigail Adams
    Marquis de Lafaytte
    Harriet Tubman
    Benjamin Franklin
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  • Q4
    Which is the first battle of the American Revolution?
    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Battle of Yorktown
    Lexington and Concord
    Battle of Trenton
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  • Q5
    This individual helped negotiate the French support for the American Revolution.
    Paul Revere
    Benjamin Ferris
    Patrick Henry
    Benjamin Franklin
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  • Q6
    This event was a demonstration by citizens of Boston disguised as Indians. They raided three British ships in the harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea overboard.
    Valley Forge
    Boston Tea Party
    Boston Massacre
    Intolerable Acts
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  • Q7
    This prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
    British and Indian War
    Treaty of Ghent
    Treaty of Pair
    Proclamation Line of 1763
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  • Q8
    Commander of the Continental Army
    King George III
    George Washington
    Patrick Henry
    Crispus Attucks
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  • Q9
    "Give me liberty or give me death"
    John Adams
    Marquis de Lafayette
    Patrick Henry
    James Armistead
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  • Q10
    War fought over the Ohio River Valley that led up to the American Revolution.
    French and Indian War
    French Revolution
    Civil War
    American Revolution
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  • Q11
    King of England during the American Revolution
    King James
    King Tomas Paine
    King George III
    King John
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  • Q12
    He is an African American who rode through Massachusetts warning colonists the British were coming.
    Haym Solomon
    Wentworth Cheswell
    James Armistead
    Mary Otis Warren
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  • Q13
    American naval commander in the American Revolution who said, "I have not yet begun to fight."
    John Paul Jones
    Crispus Attucks
    Wentworth Cheswell
    Bernardo de Galvez
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  • Q14
    Financial patriot of the Revolutionary War
    Haym Solomon
    Bernardo de Galvez
    Mary Otis Warren
    Patrick Henry
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  • Q15
    What is the location where Washington's army spent the winter and a fourth of the troops died of disease and malnutrition.
    Valley Forge
    Lexington and Concord
    Bunker Hill
    Battle of Delaware
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  • Q16
    Author of the Declaration of Independence
    Thomas Jefferson
    John Adams
    Samuel Adams
    John Locke
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  • Q17
    What was the law was passed by the British for setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonists.
    Townshend Acts
    Stamp Act
    Molasses Act
    Sugar Act
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  • Q18
    What is the law that taxed printed goods, including playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
    Coercive Acts
    Stamp Act
    Sugar Act
    Intolerable Acts
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  • Q19
    Who was the leader of the Son's of Liberty who urged the colonists to continue to resist British controls.
    Samuel Adams
    Wentworth Cheswell
    Patrick Henry
    Paul Revere
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  • Q20
    Who stirred the colonists against British policies with her writings, she is considered "First Lady" of the American Revolution.
    Marquis de Lafayette
    Mary Otis Wentworth
    Mary Otis Warren
    Abigail Adams
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