4th Grade Colonies
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25 Questions

1. Which European nation eventually agreed to help the United States fight the British?

2. What is the Liberty Bell?

3. What did the colonists think about having the redcoats in Boston and New
York?

4. What battle in New York was a big victory for the Americans?

5. Who were the minutemen?

6. What is a colony?

7. Who fought against the British soldiers from behind stone walls and trees?

8. What river did Washington cross to surprise the British forces on Christmas night?

9. How did the colonists pass laws for their colonies?

10. Who led the American forces?

11. In England, who made laws besides the king?

12. What kind of government did the Americans decide to form?

13. What was the event called when the colonists threw tea into Boston harbor in protest?

14. Why was it important that Washington crossed the Delaware and attacked successfully?

15. Why were the Battles of Lexington and Concord important?

16. What did Samuel Adams do?

17. Describe the colonists' feelings about being English.

18. Had the American colonies declared themselves independent of England before the Battle of Bunker Hill? Were they their own country?

19. What was the Boston Tea Party?

20. What did the colonists think of the Stamp Act?

21. What is the name of the new country the colonies formed with the Declaration of Independence?

22. Where did the American army camp during the winter of 1777-78?

23. In 1770, some colonists were killed when redcoats fired their muskets into an angry crowd in Boston. What is that clash between the redcoats and colonists called?

24. What were some things that made it hard for Americans to win the Revolutionary War?

25. What did 'no taxation without representation' mean?