Unit Test for The American Revolutionary War
Name: ______
Match the Following Event, Term, or Participant by Placing the Correct Letter Below
Questions 1-5
____ The Liberty A) Silversmith who created an engraving of the Boston Massacre
____ Crispus Attucks B) An image used to demonize a person, event and turn public opinion
____ Propaganda C) John Hancock’s ship suspected of smuggling
____ Samuel Adams D) Man of African and Indian heritage killed at the Boston Massacre
____ Paul Revere E) founder of the Sons of Liberty
Choose the Correct Statement from the Two Sentences by Circling the Number of the Statement:
Questions 6-9
EX: 1) Mr. Wyatt has a gorgeous head of hair.
2) Mr. Wyatt has no hair on his head.
Obviously, you would pick sentence 2 and circle it.
1) King George and Parliament believed that Boston was the root of all the rebellion.
2) King George and Parliament knew the royal governor was the root of all the rebellion.
1) The persons responsible for the Boston Tea Party wanted to break free of Britain.
2) The persons responsible for the Boston Tea Party just wanted to defy the royal governor.
1) George Grenville was the orchestrator of all the colonist’s tax issues.
2) The King of England was the orchestrator of all the colonist’s tax issues.
Mark Each Statement with a T or F in the Blank Provided:
10) ___ London sent three regiments to Boston after The Liberty Affair.
11) ___ 8 British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter at the trial of the Boston Massacre.
12) ___ The committee of correspondencewas a group of tea party supporters.
13) ___ The colonists built unity by joining together to solve their problems.
14) ___ Warren Washington is the 7th great grandson of George Washington.
Choose the Correct Letter that Bests Answers the Following Statement Below:
15) The proclamation of 1763 included all of these provisions except: a) no settlement on Indian lands b) kept fur trade in British hands c) put troops to keep colonists out d) punished Indians
16) The person responsible for breaking the original agreement after the F & I War was: a) King b) William Pitt c) George Grenville d) Prince John
17) The colonists had all of these advantages during the American Revolutionary War except: a) a standing army b) “lay of the land” c) something worth fighting for d) George Washington
18) Hessians are: a) paid soldiers for hire from Bulgaria b) German soldiers c) Nazis d) Italians
Fill in the Blank with the Best Answer
19) Grenville authorized the ______which allowed British officers aboard any vessel accused of smuggling & their courts had no juries.
20) Galvez’s army continued to push the British to the east, capturing forts in ______& ______.
21) Under the ______Boston harbor would be closed until Massachusetts agreed to pay for the tea lost during the Tea Party.
22) ______had announced the King’s plan to give Africans their freedom if they agreed to fight for the British.
23) ______an education advocate from Massachusetts, championed for an equal education between girls and boys.
24) ______spoke these last words “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” after being discovered as a spy.
25) ______split the continental army in 2 and General Daniel Morgan defeated the British at Cowpens,SC.
26) Britain gave ______a permanent government to oversee the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River.
27) The king and parliament then passed the ______which stated that Britain had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies.
28) When asked to surrender to the British warship the Serapis, ______replied “I have not yet begun to fight!” during an epic battle at sea.
29) ______was when a group of men disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and armed with tomahawks and hatchets and threw 342 cases of tea into Boston harbor.
30) ______, also known as Molly Pitcher carried water to thirsty soldiers.
31) ______sailed with 175 soldiers down the Ohio R to the Tennessee R capturing 2 forts at Kaskaskia & Vincennes.
32) The Revolutionary War inspired the colonies of ______, ______, ______, & ______to end slavery.
33) The ______lowered the tax on molasses and made British molasses more appealing to the colonists and encourage them not to smuggle.
34) ______wanted at least 3 years or until the end of the war.
35) The largest concentrations of loyalists were in ______, and ______.
36) Polish immigrant ______was also known as the "Father of the American Cavalry,"
37) ______made a declaration of war against Britain in February of 1778.
38) The ______a women’s group refused to wear fabrics made in Britain and make them at home.
39) The ______placed a half-penny tax on all printed material in the colonies which included pamphlets, wills, licenses, and even playing cards.
40) 32,000 troops were placed under the command of ______to bolster the forces in the colonies at the start of the war.
41) Britain passed taxes without informing colonial legislature, they ignored the tradition of ______-______.
42) ______created the Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, which became the army's standard drill manual.
43) ______encouraged Spain, Cuba, & Mexico to send financial aid to the colonies.
44) The ______taxed all imported goods at the port of entry so the colonists could receive no goods until all the appropriate taxes were paid.
45) ______a dock worker of Indian and African blood was the first killed during the Revolutionary War.
46) The financial problems of ______led to a reduction of taxes put on tea and eventually led to the Boston Tea Party.
47) The colonists suffered their first serious defeat at the ______.
48) ______, a French nobleman was among the soldiers during the winter at Valley Forge and became Washington’s most trusted aide.
49) As many as ______Africans served in the Revolutionary War.
50) At the Battle of Saratoga, 5,700 British soldiers handed over their weapons to the colonial army while musicians played ______.
51) With ______of British goods, local colonial merchants begged the King and parliament to ______or cancel the Stamp Act.
52) Washington’s army captured the towns of, ______and ______along with 2,400 soldiers, and 900 Hessians after the defeat at Long Island.
53) In the first formal protest by the colonists, ______was quoted “If this be treason, make the most of it!”
54) At the ______, the British lost so many troops that they gave up on their southern strategy.
55) Known as the Swamp Fox, ______harassed and attacked Cornwallis’s troops using guerrilla warfare.
56) A ______is aformal expression of opinion.
57) The ______took to the streets burning ______or rag figures of tax collectors to protest the British taxes.
58) The Quartering Act made colonists house ______in their homes whether they liked it or not.
59) In October of 1765, members from 9 colonies met in New York and created the ______that drafted a petition to the king and parliament claiming that the colonies could not be taxed except for their own local government.
60) The ______enabled officers to march into stores and warehouses and claim goods as smuggled without proof or going to court.
61) ______were privately owned merchant ships, that were more successful in attacking British ships than the American Navy.
62) ______disguised herself as a boy after her brothers and friends did and joined the Revolutionary War.
63) The problem with the ______was that soldiers signed up for a year of service but George Washington wanted at least 3 years or until the end of the war.
64) ______was the organizer of the Sons of Liberty.
65) Those Africans that fought beside the British in the Revolutionary War ended up in Canada or the ______colony in Africa.
66) Cornwallis’s troops surrendered at the ______which signaled to the British that the War was too costly to continue.
67) The ______gave the US all the territory west from the colonies to the Mississippi River and north to Canada.
68) Patriot sharpshooters at the ______forced over 1,000 British troops to retreat and gave southerners a reason to take part in the war.
69) ______was the commander at FortDetroit, paid Native Americans for colonial scalps brought to him during the Revolutionary War.
70) ______questioned the fairness of freedom when men still had absolute power over their wives and daughters during the war.
71) The colonists sent ______, ______& ______to work out the terms of the Treaty of Paris.
72) Early in the southern strategy, the British took ______& ______in May of 1780.
73) Polish immigrant ______became a general in Washington’s Army and later returned to Poland to help in their revolution.
74) The governor of Louisiana, ______raised an army to force British troops out of Spanish territory during the Revolutionary War.
75) Mr. Wyatt explained the British problem of trying to control too much territory by referring to the board game of ______.