Soc Studies 8 Unit 3 Test

Front 1

Nickname for British soldiers.

Back 1

Redcoats
(page 186)

Front 2

Special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled items.

Back 2

Writs of Assistance
(page 171)

Front 3

Banned any more settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Back 3

Proclamation of 1763
(page 166)

Front 4

Colonists who fought for independence.

Back 4

Patriots
(page 192)

Front 5

Offered freedom to slaves who would fight for the British.

Back 5

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
(page 199)

Front 6

Colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain.

Back 6

Loyalists
(page 192)

Front 7

Secret groups that sometimes used violence to frighten tax collectors.

Back 7

Sons of Liberty
(page 169)

Front 8

Swift, hit-and-run attacks.

Back 8

Guerrilla Warfare
(page 211)

Front 9

Civilians who serve as soldiers.

Back 9

Militia
(page 158)

Front 10

Put taxes on imported glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

Back 10

Townshend Acts
(page 171)

Front 11

"Common Sense" was a pamphlet written by _____ _____, who thought the colonies should break away from Great Britain.

Back 11

Thomas Paine
(page 190)

Front 12

Colonists opposed the taxes suggested by Prime Minister ____ ____, who wanted to pay Britain's war debts.

Back 12

George Grenville
(page 167)

Front 13

Baron ______ used his military experience in Prussia to teach basic drills to the Continental Army.

Back 13

Friedrich von Steuben
(page 206)

Front 14

The ______ called for colonists to join together under a president general and a grand council.

Back 14

Albany Plan of Union
(page 160)

Front 15

Much of the Declaration of Independence was written by _____.

Back 15

Thomas Jefferson
(page 182)

Front 16

The Second Continental Congress chose ________ to lead the Continental Army.

Back 16

George Washington
(page 186)

Front 17

British troops fired into an angry crowd and killed five people during the _______.

Back 17

Boston Massacre
(page 172)

Front 18

The _________ forced colonists to pay a special tax for anything printed on paper.

Back 18

Stamp Act
(page 169)

Front 19

General ________ led a successful British attack on Quebec.

Back 19

James Wolfe
(pge 162)

Front 20

The _________ came from France to join the Continental Army.

Back 20

Marquis de Lafayette
(page 206)

Front 21

During the _______, colonists disguised as Indians dumped more than 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

Back 21

Boston Tea Party
(page 174)

Front 22

The _______ brought a large French force to New York to support Washington's soldiers.

Back 22

Comte de Rochambeau
(page 212)

Front 23

Samuel Adams thought that Parliament did not have the right to tax the colonists without their permission, so he organized the _______.

Back 23

Boston Tea Party.
(page 184)

Front 24

In 1781 the British surrendered after losing the Battle of ___________.

Back 24

Yorktown.
(page 212)

Front 25

The _______ placed duties on certain items imported by the colonists.

Back 25

Townshend Acts
(page 171)

Front 26

Colonial merchants thought the ______ would cause them to lose money.

Back 26

Tea Act
(page 173)

Front 27

The Intolerable Acts were passed as punishment for the ________.

Back 27

Boston Tea Party.
(page 175)

Front 28

In Virginia, ________ made a speech asking the House of Burgesses to oppose the Stamp Act.

Back 28

Patrick Henry
(page 169)

Front 29

The ______ in 1783 ended the war.

Back 29

Treaty of Paris
(page 213)

Front 30

_________ led attacks on British forts along the Atlantic coast.

Back 30

George Rogers Clark
(page 209-210)

Front 31

The first battle of the American Revolution took place in _____.

Back 31

Lexington and Concord
(page 185-186)

Front 32

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

recommended that colonists continue to boycott British goods?

Back 32

First Continental Congress
(page 184)

Front 33

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

made plans to organize and fund the Continental Army to defend the colonies.

Back 33

Second Continental Congress
(page 186)

Front 34

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III as a final attempt at peace.

Back 34

Second Continental Congress
(page 186)

Front 35

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

warned militias to be prepared.

Back 35

First Continental Congress
(page 184)

Front 36

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

chose George Washington to command the army.

Back 36

Second Continental Congress
(page 186)

Front 37

First Continental Congress or
Second Continental Congress?

Sent the Declaration of Resolves to King George III, demanding the right of the colonists to "life, liberty, and property"

Back 37

First Continental Congress
(page 184)

Front 38

As the govenor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo de Galvez supported the _____.

Back 38

Patriots.
(page 206)