The American Revolution
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$200: A tax on molasses and
sugar was called:
a) The Molasses
Act
b) The Sugar Act
c) The Molasses
and Sugar Act
d) The Julia Cibela
Act
$400: The Intolerable Acts Were:
a) Taxes on molasses
and sugar
b) Taxes on imported
glass, lead and paint
c) Used to punish the
colonists for the
Boston Tea Party
d) Taxes on printed
material
$800: The Townshend Act posed:
a) Taxes on imported
glass, paint, paper,
tea and lead
b) A tax on sugar and
molasses
c) A tax to enter the
classroom
d) To punish the
colonists for the
Boston Massacre
$1000: Put these events in order: The Declaration of
Independence, the Stamp Act, the French and Indian
War, Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ethan Allen captures Fort
Ticonderoga, the French and Indian
War ,the Stamp Act, The Declaration
of Independence
Ethan Allen captures Fort
Ticonderoga , The Declaration of
Independence, the Stamp Act, the
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War ,The
Stamp Act, Ethan Allen captures Fort
Ticonderoga, The Declaration of
Independence
The Declaration of Independence, the
Stamp Act, the French and Indian
War, Ethan Allen captures Fort
Ticonderoga
$2000: What battle started the
American Revolution?
a) The Battle of
Concord
b) The Battle of
Lexington
c) The Battle of
Guadeloupe
d) The battle of Fort
Niagara
$4000: What battle Ended the
American Revolution?
a) The Battle of
Saratoga
b) The Battle of Fort
George
c) The Battle of the
Bulge
d) The Battle of
Yorktown
$8000: Why was the Battle of
Saratoga so important?
a) The Germans lost and
the British took control
of the colonies
b) The Rebels won and
convinced the French to
support them with
money and troops
c) It was the first battle in
New York
d) It made New York
famous because the
British won
$16,000: Why was New York an
important battleground in the American
Revolution?
a) It separated British
troops so the Rebels
could, “divide and
conquer”
b) It had the most
commerce in the
colonies
c) The Statue of Liberty
was at risk
d) New York had the most
people
$32,000: What were the cause and effect
of the Boston Massacre?
a) Cause: colonists with
snowballs, effect: 7 men
dead
b) Cause: British soldiers
all over Boston, effect: 7
men dead
c) Cause: the Boston Tea
Party, effect: a lot of tea
in the harbor
d) Cause: the Quartering
Act, effect: the Boston
Harbor is closed
$64,000: The Commander and Chief
of the Continental Army was:
a) Thomas
Jefferson
b) George
Washington
c) George Bush
d) John Jay
$128,000: Who decided to help
the Americans after Saratoga?
a) The French
b) The British
c) The Spanish
d) The Germans
$250,000: Who surrendered to
Washington at Yorktown?
a) Burgoyne
b) Gates
c) Cornwallis
d) Hitler
$500,000: What 3 unalienable rights did the
Declaration of Independence say we have?
a) Life, liberty and the
pursuit of freedom
b) Life, love and the
pursuit of happiness
c) Liberty, hope and
freedom
d) Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness
$1,000,000: What was the main purpose
of the Declaration of Independence?
a) To outline the reasons the colonies wanted
to separate from Britain
b) To start the American Revolution
c) To declare Britain a free country
d) To declare independent trading in the
world