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Vocabulary Match the definitions with the correct terms.

Definitions / Terms
a. a volunteer army
b. control by the military
c. a colonist who strongly opposed British actions
d.to give food and shelter to British troops / 1 martial law
2 Patriot
3 militia
______4 quartering

Key Concepts Choose the letter of the correct answer.

5.The Boston Massacre occurred while a group of colonists were arguing with British troops.
Why were the colonists arguing with the troops?

ABritish troops forced colonists to do heavy manual labor for them.

BThe colonists were making fun of the bright green coats the troops wore.

CThe troops were yelling insults at the colonists.

DThe colonists were angry because British troops were still in Boston.

6.Which of the following was a key step taken by the First Continental Congress?

FIt voted to stop all trade with Great Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed.

GIt issued the Declaration of Independence.

HIt appointed George Washington king.

IIt declared war on Great Britain.

7.Which statement BEST summarizes the Boston Massacre?

FA group of colonists fired on a British army patrol.

GThe British massacred an entire Native American village near Boston.

HBritish troops fired on colonists who were throwing snowballs and yelling at them. Fivecolonists died.

IMany slave owners were killed in a slave revolt.

8.Colonists who were neutral in the debate about Great Britain’s treatment of the colonies
were called

ALoyalists.

Bundecideds.

CPatriots.

Dlandowners.

9.What was the purpose of Paul Revere’s ride?

Fto warn the minutemen and Patriot leaders that British troops were coming to
arrest them

Gto set fire to British supplies

Hto transport rifles taken from the British to the minutemen

Ito carry the Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin’s printing shop

10.Which statement is true about the Boston Tea Party?

FThe Boston Tea Party celebrated the arrival in the colonies of a new type of tea
from England.

GColonists boarded a British ship in the night. They threw chests of tea into the sea.

HPatriots convinced Native Americans to destroy a British ship and its cargo of tea.

IThe colonists were happy because Great Britain had repealed the tea tax.

11.Parliament passed a series of harsh laws in response to the Boston Tea Party. What namedid the colonists give to those laws?

ACommon Sense

BThe Intolerable Acts

CThe Townshend Acts

DThe Olive Branch Petition

12.Where were the first two battles of the Revolutionary War fought?

Fat Lexington and Concord

Gat Trenton and Valley Forge

Hat Yorktown and FortTiconderoga

Iat Savannah and Charleston

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