What as the crucial issue behind the War of Independence? Stamp tax Tea tax An idealized view of liberty Practical self-government

Practical self-government

What was the main purpose of the Committees of Correspondence? To make laws for the colonies To supervise and supply militia To provide news on British threats to liberty To debate resolutions on colonial rights

To provide news on British threats to liberty

What sparked the Coercive Acts? The Gaspee incident The Boston Massacre The Committees of Correspondence The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party

What was a major accomplishment of the First Continental Congress? To appoint a commander in chief To assert the rights of the colonies to govern

themselves To petition the king to stop the abuses of

Parliament To raise a Continental army

To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves

The major reason that the colonists lost the Battle of Bunker Hill was that The militia fled during the middle of the battle The American generals made some major

blunders The British outnumbered the Americans

almost four to one The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

What action did Boston’s Patriots take in 1773 when some British ships refused to take their tea back to England?

The Boston Tea Party

What term refers to “citizen soldiers” such as the minutemen?

militia

A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage

  __ British general whose army occupied

Boston and attacked Concord

C) Thomas Gage

A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage

  __ Virginian Patriot whose speeches

supported the war

B) Patrick Henry

A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage

  __ the first engagement of the American

Revolution

A) Lexington and Concord