American Revolution

Question 1

What year did the American Revolution begin?

Answer 1

1755

Question 2

What document declared the colonies’ independence from Great Britain?

Answer 2

The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1766.

Question 3

What were the first two battles of the American Revolution?

Answer 3

Lexington and Concord.

Question 4

What were some of the Acts imposed on the Colonies by the British? What did they think this was?

Answer 4

The Stamp Act, the Tea Act, the Homestead Act, the Intolerable Acts (the Quartering act), and the Sugar Act. The colonies’ believed this was “taxation without representation”.

Question 5

What was the treaty that ended the war? What did it do for the colonies?

Answer 5

The Treaty of Paris of 1783.

Question 6

What was the turning point of the war?

Answer 6

The Battle of Yorktown, when the colonies’ convinced France to give them aid.