U.S.

History Name ______________________________

Mr. Chiuccariello
American Rev. – TAV #2

DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B. Write the correct letters in the blanks.
Column A Column B

1. a special unit of militia in the town of Concord

______________ A. Loyalists
_____2. where a largely untrained colonial militia stood up to one B. Common Sense
of the world’s most feared armies C. committee of correspondence
_____3. Americans who backed Britain _

4. pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy

_____________ D. Battle of Bunker Hill

______5. created by each colony to communicate with the other E. minutemen

colonies about British activities

DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice In the blank at the left, write the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or
answers the question.

6. With what laws did the British intend to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and end colonial challenges to
______________

British authority?
A. Coercive Acts C. Quebec Act
B. Tea Act D. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
7. On September 5, 1774, in Philadelphia, a colonial congress was coordinated by the committees of correspondence and called
_____

the
A. House of Burgesses. C. First Continental Congress.
B. Massachusetts Provincial Congress. D. Philadelphia Congress.
_____8. What document expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Coercive Acts and announced that the colonies were
forming a nonimportation association?
A. Common Sense C. Declaration of Independence
B. Olive Branch Petition D. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
9. What became known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts?
_____

A. the Tea Act and Quebec Act C. the Coercive Acts and Tea Act
B. the Quebec Act and Coercive Acts D. the Coercive Acts
10. When British troops set out for Concord on a road that took them past the town of Lexington, two men spread the alarm: Paul
_____

Revere and
A. George Washington. C. Joseph Galloway.
B. John Dickinson. D. William Dawes.