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Date_____________
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Social Studies Quiz Ch. 8 Lessons 3 & 4
1. A legal _________________ gives complete control of a good or service in an area to
one person or group.
a. monopoly
b. blockade
c. petition
2. What group was responsible for the Boston Tea Party?
a. Daughters of Liberty
b. Continental Congress
c. Sons of Liberty
3. What happened at the Boston Tea Party?
a. The Daughters of Liberty met, discussed the British, and drank tea.
b. The Sons of Liberty threw more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
c. The Daughters of Liberty threw more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
4. The Coercive Acts are also known as the ____________________.
a. Declaratory Acts
b. Intolerable Acts
c. Townshend Acts
5. To coerce someone means to _______________ them.
a. force
b. meet
c. photograph
6. To enforce the Coercive Acts, Parliament ordered the British navy to blockade Boston
Harbor. This meant that _____________________________.
a. British warships only allowed ships to come into Boston Harbor
b. British warships stopped other ships from entering or leaving Boston Harbor.
c. British warships only allowed ships to leave Boston Harbor.
7. To enforce the Coercive Acts, British also ordered the colonists to quarter British
soldiers. This meant the colonists had to ________________________________.
a. give food and housing to the soldiers
b. give the soldiers all of their quarters
c. give the soldiers ¼ of all their belongings
8. Not all British leaders agreed with the Coercive Acts.
a. True
b. False
9. ______________________ were said to be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
a. Militia
b. Soldiers
c. Minutemen
10. In which two towns did the British first fire upon the minutemen?
a. Lexington and Concord b. Boston and Lexington
c. Boston and Concord
11. The poet Ralph Waldo Emerson called the first shot fired at Lexington the
_____________________________.
a. “first shot of the American Revolution”
b. “shot heard ‘round the world”
c. “loudest shot ever heard”
12. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired in the town of ______________.
a. Concord
b. Lexington
c. Boston
13. A(n) __________________ is a sudden, complete change of government.
a. monopoly
b. blockade
c. revolution
14. The colonists’ army was called the ______________________.
a. United States Army
b. Continental Congress
c. Continental Army
15. A(n) ____________________ is the leader of all military forces.
a. commander in chief
b. executive commander
c. chief executive officer
16. Who was chosen as the leader for the Continental Army?
a. John Adams
b. George Washington
c. Samuel Adams
17. ______________________ are walls made of earth and stone.
a. Stone hedges
b. Earthworks
c. Earthen fences
18. The first major battle of the Revolutionary War was called the Battle of
__________________.
a. the Bulge
b. Bunker Hill
c. Boston
19. A(n) ______________________ is an ancient symbol of peace.
a. olive branch
b. peace sign
c. eagle
**Bonus:**
1. In what city was the First Continental Congress held? ________________________
2. What was the paper money printed by the Second Continental Congress called?
_______________________________________________
3. Where did the first major battle of the American Revolution actually take place (not what it
is known as)? ___________________________________