Test Review American Revolution

Question 1

Patriots were…

Answer 1

Colonists who were against British rule.

Question 2

This is a statement.

Answer 2

What is a declaration?

Question 3

To ratify means to….

Answer 3

APPROVE

Question 4

These laws were passed to punish the colonists.

Answer 4

What is the Intolerable Acts?

Question 5

This man was the leader of the colonists during the American Revolution.

Answer 5

Who is George Washington?

Question 6

South Carolina moved their capital from Charles Town to…

Answer 6

Columbia

Question 7

This man was the “Wizard Owl”.

Answer 7

Andrew Pickens

Question 8

The Patriots pretended to retreat and turned to fight at this battle, tricking the British and winning!

Answer 8

The Battle of Cowpens

Question 9

This document states the laws of our new nation.

Answer 9

What is the U.S. Constitution?

Question 10

The _______________ won the American Revolution.

Answer 10

Patriots

Question 11

This man earned his nickname, The Swamp Fox, when he would attack the British and then disappear into the swamps.

Answer 11

Francis Marion

Question 12

This meeting was held with the purpose of writing the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 12

The Constitutional Convention

Question 13

This battle, won by the Patriots, kept the British from moving north quickly.

Answer 13

The Battle of King’s Mountain

Question 14

The state capital was moved to…

Answer 14

be located in the middle of the state, where it was not too close to the Upcountry or the Lowcountry.

Question 15

The Patriots burned this colonist’s house to capture the British inside it.

Answer 15

Rebecca Motte

Question 16

This document declared the right of the colonists to their freedom from Great Britain.

Answer 16

The Declaration of Independence

Question 17

A war hero who was nicknamed the “Fighting Gamecock”.

Answer 17

Thomas Sumter

Question 18

Name the set of laws that: 1. Closed the port of Boston 2. Forced the colonists to house British soldiers 3. Banned any town meeting without approval

Answer 18

The Intolerable Acts

Question 19

This was the main cause of the Patriot win at the Battle of Sullivan’s Island

Answer 19

Palmetto log fort

Question 20

This meeting was called to write a document declaring the reasons we should be free from Great Britain.

Answer 20

The Second Continental Congress

Question 21

This man led the Patriots at the Battle of Cowpens

Answer 21

Daniel Morgan

Question 22

July 4, 1776 is important because…

Answer 22

The Declaration of Independence was signed on that date.

Question 23

The new state constitution said that

Answer 23

only white men could vote

Question 24

Fort Sullivan was later renamed to…

Answer 24

Fort Moultrie