5 Written Questions

1. Selling scarce items at unreasonably high prices.
2. 1763 rebellion by Native Americans in the Great Lakes region
3. 1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin for the creation of a grand council of representatives from Britain's American colonies.
4. Eighteenth-century movement emphasized science and reason to improve society.
5. Revolutionary War battle in 1781 in Virginia that ended in a decisive American victory.

5 Matching Questions

1. prime minster
2. casualty
3. natural rights
4. Treaty of Paris (1783)
5. blockade

1. a Rights that belong to people simply because they're human.
2. b Highest official in a parliamentary government.
3. c Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and in which Britain acknowledged American independence.
4. d Military term for a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing in action.
5. e To isolate, or close off, a place from outside contact.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. War from 1754 to 1763 between France (allied with Indian nations) and Britain and its colonists, for control of eastern North America.
   1. French and Indian War
   2. rule of law
   3. Revolutionary War
   4. prime minster
2. Revolutionary War battle in 1777 in New York, a turning point in the war.
   1. Battle of Trenton
   2. Battle of Saratoga
   3. Battle of Bunker Hill
   4. Battle of Yorktown
3. Refusal to buy a certain product or to use a certain service.
   1. militia
   2. Loyalist
   3. boycott
   4. blockade
4. 1765 law passed by the British Parliament that taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonists.
   1. casualty
   2. Stamp Act
   3. siege
   4. mercenary
5. Order by the British king that closed the region west of the Appalachian Mountains to all settlement by colonists.
   1. rule of law
   2. Proclamation of 1763
   3. inflation
   4. Revolutionary War

5 True/False Questions

1. Loyalist → Person who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution.

   True        False

2. inflation → A steady increase in prices over time, reducing the ability to buy.

   True        False

3. Comon Sense → Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January 1776, which called for American independence from Britain.

   True        False

4. Second Continental Congress → Assembly of representatives from the colonies that first met in Philadelphia in September 1774.

   True        False

5. siege → Tactic in which an enemy is surrouded and starved in order to make it surrender.

   True        False