Chapter

5: American Revolution
Study Guide


1. What key event took place after the Patriots’ victory in the Battle of Saratoga?
A. The Spanish invaded Great Britain.
B. The Patriot army under Benedict Arnold fell apart.
C. The French army joined with the colonies to fight the British.
D. The British took control of the whole Hudson River valley.

2. Which of the following was something the colonists did to oppose the Stamp Act?
F. urge Native Americans to attack British troops in Boston
G. capture British cannons from Fort Ticonderoga
H. continue to settle in the Ohio River valley
I. hang effigies of stamp agents and threaten them

3. Whom did the Second Continental Congress choose to write the Declaration of
Independence?
A. George Washington
B. Crispus Attucks
C. John Adams
D. Thomas Jefferson

4. Why did the British send warships and troops to Boston Harbor in 1768?
F. to subdue a Native American revolt
G. to limit the colonists’ protests against British taxes
H. to deliver cargoes of enslaved Africans
I. to bombard the city of Boston

5. Which statement best describes the ideas about government in the Declaration of
Independence?
A. The government of the United States would be based on freedom, equality, and
protecting the people’s rights.
B. Only white male landowners would have rights.
C. The United States would be a monarchy, like Great Britain.
D. Government powers would be placed in the hands of a small group of wealthy British
men.

6. Which country helped the Patriots in the Battle of Yorktown by blocking British supply
ships in the Chesapeake Bay?
F. Prussia
G. France
H. Spain
I. Holland

7. Which statement BEST explains why the colonists were angry about the Stamp Act?
A. The Stamp Act was unfair because the colonists had no representation in Parliament.
B. The Stamp Act taxed tools the colonists produced in America.
C. The Stamp Act should also apply to Native Americans.
D. The Stamp Act taxed the colonists’ land.

8. Which phrase BEST describes the main reason for the colonists’ anger about the Stamp
Act?
F. “No taxation with representation!”
G. “Don’t tread on me.”
H. “Join or die.”
I. “Common sense.”

9. Which statement is true about the Boston Tea Party?
A. The Boston Tea Party celebrated the arrival in the colonies of a new type of tea from
England.
B. Colonists boarded a British ship in the night and threw chests of tea into the Boston
Harbor.
C. Patriots convinced Native Americans to destroy a British ship and its cargo of tea.
D. The colonists were happy because Great Britain had repealed the tea tax.

10. Which statement BEST explains why the Second Continental Congress issued the
Declaration of Independence?
F. France convinced the Congress to declare war on Great Britain.
G. The Congress wanted the colonies to be independent because Great Britain refused
to recognize certain rights.
H. The Congress wanted to recognize Great Britain’s dominion over the colonies.
I. The Congress wanted to set up an American monarchy.



11. Which of these statements BEST describes the role of African Americans in the
Revolutionary War?
A. Most enslaved African Americans chose to remain in slavery.
B. African Americans fought on both sides during the war. They played an important
role in the Patriot war effort.
C. Conflict broke out between African Americans and Native Americans as both groups
fought to control the land.
D. Slave owners in the South sent their enslaved African Americans back to Africa so
that they could not help the British.

12. What set of laws placed new taxes on the colonists after the repeal of the Stamp Act?
F. The Declaration of Independence
G. The First Continental Congress
H. The Townshend Acts
I. The Sons of Liberty

13. Why did Great Britain repeal the Stamp Act?
A. France invaded and conquered Great Britain.
B. Great Britain earned enough money from the tax to repay its war debts.
C. The Stamp Act had caused Native American revolts.
D. The colonists were threatening stamp agents and boycotting British goods.

14. What was the main outcome of the Battle of Yorktown?
F. The surrender of the British army under General Cornwallis marked the defeat of the
British.
G. Benedict Arnold betrayed the Patriots by switching to the British side.
H. General Nathaniel Greene led surprise raids against the British army. Those raids
weakened the British.
I. The colonies granted the French navy fishing rights in the Chesapeake Bay.

15. Which statement BEST describes how the members of the Second Continental
Congress felt after they published the Declaration of Independence?
A. They felt that several European nations would help the colonies.
B. They believed that Native Americans and enslaved Africans would rise up against the
British.
C. They thought Great Britain would grant the colonies independence.
D. They knew Great Britain would find them guilty of treason and that a war for
independence could follow.


16. What was the goal of the British in the Battle of Saratoga?
F. to cut off the Northeast from the rest of the colonies by taking control of the Hudson
River valley
G. to unite all Native American nations against the Patriots
H. to draw the French forces into a major ambush
I. to capture Francis Marion and end his raids


17. The Second Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George III, yet
it also created the Continental Army. Why?

The colonies did not have an army to fight against the British if a war broke out. The
Continental Army was formed so that colonists would be ready should the colonies and
Great Britain go to war.

18. Explain two or more main arguments stated in the Declaration of Independence that
caused the colonies to break away from England.

King George III cut off the colonies’ trade with other countries.
King George III forced colonists to quarter troops.
King George III forced taxes and laws on colonists without their consent.




*** Study your vocabulary words!

repeal quarter independence mercenary
Treaty of Paris boycott Loyalists treason
morale strategy





Answer Key
1. C
2. I
3. D
4. G
5. A
6. G
7. A
8. F
9. B
10. G
11. B
12. H
13. D
14. F
15. D
16. F