Chapter 4 – Test Review Questions

1. What were 3 purposes of the Declaration of Independence?

2. Which act put taxes on foreign molasses?

3. Who believed that rebelling against the king was like rebelling against God?

4. Who was chosen to command the Continental Army?

5. Where was the Second Continental Congress held?

6. What items were taxed according to the Stamp Act?

7. Who was the king of England during the American Revolution?

8. Where did the Continental Army spend a miserable winter in 1777-78 starving, but did learn how to fight using linear tactics?

9. Who did most of the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence?

10. What did the Proclamation of 1763 state?

11. Who was the author of Commonsense?

12. What was the law that required colonists to house and supply British troops called?

13. Which document stated the colonies’ loyalty to the king and asked his help in ending the conflict (2nd Continental Congress)?

14. What were 3 of the punishments of the Intolerable Acts?

15. What is it called when a slave is given his freedom?

16. What was the name of the group of artisans, lawyers, and merchants that protested the Stamp Act in Boston?

17. “The shot heard around the world” was fired at….

18. The general search warrants that allowed custom officers to search vessels, warehouses, or homes were called (Townshend Acts)?

19. What was the name of the incident where 5 colonists were shot by British soldiers?

20. Who stated “Give me Liberty or give me Death?”

21. What was the most important reason why the American colonies won this war?

22. What person became famous for warning colonists that the British were coming due to a poem?

23. The price of tea dropped as a result of its passage….

24. The battle for Boston in June 1775 involved 2 hills – Breeds Hill and ….

25. What was the major rallying cry of the colonists against the laws passed by the British government?

26. Who was the leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty?

27. What was the type of fighting that the colonists engaged in using hit and run tactics?

28. What was the name of the event where the colonists dropped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor?

29. What was the nickname of the British troops?

30. What was the name of the final battle where the British surrendered to the Colonists?

31. What was created by the Second Continental Congress “for the defense of American Liberty?”

32. What was the name of the British legislative branch?

33. What taxed common items such as tea and glass?

34. Who were American colonists that were ready to fight at a minute’s notice?

35. What did merchants sign promising to ban all trade with Great Britain?

36. What granted the United States independence?

37. What forbade town meetings and the harbor in Boston?

38. Who was the British general that surrendered to the colonists at the end of the war?

39. What was created by Bostonians to inform the colonies and the world about British oppression?

40. What was the treaty that helped end the American Revolution?

41. What were 3 ways in which the French provided aid to the colonists in the Revolution?

42. Why was the name of the battle where GW crossed over the Delaware and surprised their enemies after Christmas in 1776?

43. What is considered the turning point of the American Revolution?