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Revolutionary War

Quiz by Lindsay McBride

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  • Q1
    The laws that were put in place after the Boston Tea Party that closed the Boston Harbor, created martial law, and banned town meetings in Boston were called:
    The Intolerable Acts
    The Tea Act
    The Townsend Acts
    The Boston Acts
    30s
  • Q2
    Colonists who were loyal to Great Britain and King George III were called:
    Loyalists
    Patriots
    American Indians
    Neutral citizens
    30s
  • Q3
    Colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain were called:
    Patriots
    Sons of Liberty
    Neutral colonists
    Loyalists
    30s
  • Q4
    Patriots use _________________ to convince colonists who were neutral about independence with Great Britain to join their side.
    Propaganda
    Schools
    Violence
    Tar and feathering
    30s
  • Q5
    The act that gave more colonial land to France was called:
    The Tea Act
    The Quebec Act
    Proclamation of 1763
    The Townsend Acts
    30s
  • Q6
    The first time that the delegates were sent from the colonies to meet as a unified force was called:
    The Albany Plan of Union
    Declaration of Independence
    The First Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress
    30s
  • Q7
    The only colony that refused to send a delegate to the First Continental Congress was:
    New York
    Georgia
    Massachusetts
    Delaware
    30s
  • Q8
    The colonists that became a leader during this time due to his involvement in writing the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was:
    John Adams
    George Washington
    Paul Revere
    Thomas Jefferson
    30s
  • Q9
    The Declaration of Grievances decided all of the following EXCEPT:
    That America was now free and war would start
    That colonies would start training militias
    That the colonies would help each other if one was attacked
    The colonists would tell the King what they were upset about
    30s
  • Q10
    The general of Boston that heard that militias were storing weapons in Concord and sent troops to destroy them was:
    General Ulysses S. Grant
    General George Washington
    General Thomas Gage
    General William Howe
    30s
  • Q11
    The member of the Sons of Liberty that rode through Lexington to warn colonists that the British were marching was:
    Paul Revere
    George Washington
    John Hancock
    Thomas Jefferson
    30s
  • Q12
    Paul Revere used lanterns at _________________________ to alert colonists that the British were marching to seize the weapons of the militia.
    The Old State House
    The North Bridge
    Feneuil Hall
    The Old North Church
    30s
  • Q13
    Colonists who were ready to fight at a minute's notice were called:
    Minutemen
    Colonists
    Sons of Liberty
    Loyalists
    30s
  • Q14
    The first direct battle between the Patriots and the Loyalists was in:
    Yorktown
    Lexington
    Concord
    Bunker Hill
    30s
  • Q15
    Paul Revere was ____________________ before the Battle of Lexington and Concord started.
    arrested
    killed
    set free
    tarred and feathered
    30s

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