Discovering Our Past: The American Journey to World War I

Chapter 2: Road to Independence

Self-Check Quiz

1
The __________ prohibited American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
A)Albany Plan of Union
B)Proclamation of 1763
C)Stamp Act
D)Townshend Acts
2
What term means trading illegally with other nations?
A)imported
B)repealed
C)boycotted
D)smuggling
3
After the Boston Tea Party, Britain introduced the __________, putting the government of Massachusetts under military rule.
A)Coercive Acts
B)Tea Act
C)Townshend Acts
D)Declaratory Acts
4
What lawyer and American colonist did New York send as its representative to the Continental Congress?
A)Samuel Adams
B)John Jay
C)Richard Henry Lee
D)George Washington
5
When asked to surrender, this American captain named __________ said “I have not yet begun to fight.”
A)George Rogers Clark
B)Friedrich von Steuben
C)John Paul Jones
D)Thaddeus Kosciusko
6
The __________ was a group of citizen soldiers that was prepared to defend the colonies.
A)resolution
B)correspondence
C)redcoats
D)militia
7
__________ penned “The Concord Hymn,” describing how the Americans fired the “shot heard round the world.”
A)John Pitcairn
B)John Parker
C)Ralph Waldo Emerson
D)Paul Revere
8
__________ was one of the colonists who died in the Boston Massacre.
A)Samuel Adams
B)James Otis
C)Crispus Attucks
D)Nathaniel Ames
9
In July 1775, the Second Continental Congress sent a petition, called the Olive Branch Petition, to _______.
A)Thomas Paine
B)King George III
C)the French king
D)George Washington
10
The American victory at __________ represented a turning point in the war against Britain.
A)Saratoga
B)Princeton
C)Bunker Hill
D)Trenton
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