Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________
ID: A
US Government Chapter 2 Section 2 Review
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
“First, the powers of governing still remaining in the hands of the king, he will have a negative over the
whole legislation on this continent. And as he has shown himself such an inveterate enemy to liberty and
discovered such a thirst for arbitrary power, is he, or is he not, a proper person to say to these colonies. ‘You
shall make no laws but what I please!’”
—Thomas Paine
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1.
According to Thomas Paine, the colonists should break away from England and create their own
monarchy.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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2. This began as a struggle over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
a. British and Indian War
c. Northwest Ordinance
b. Intolerable Acts
d. French and Indian War
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Name: ________________________
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3.
ID: A
Choose the answer that best completes the cause-and-effect chart that chronicles the events leading up to
the Revolutionary War.
a. French and Indian War
c. Boston Tea Party
b. Louisiana Purchase
d. Civil War
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Name: ________________________
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4.
a.
b.
ID: A
The Townshend Acts placed import taxes on paint, glass, lead, and
coffee.
c. copper.
salt.
d. tea.
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5. The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought at
a. Washington, D.C., and Boston.
c. Boston and New York.
b. Annapolis and Concord.
d. Lexington and Concord.
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6. The Intolerable Acts prompted the colonists to take this action against Britain.
a. impose an embargo
c. hold the Stamp Act Congress
b. levy new taxes
d. dump tea into Boston Harbor
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Name: ________________________
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7.
ID: A
A series of events led the colonists to declare their independence from Britain. Choose the answer that
best completes the chart identifying these events.
a. colonists pass Stamp Act
c. Boston Tea Party
b. First Continental Congress
d. Second Continental Congress
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Name: ________________________
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8.
a.
b.
According to the map, which country most recently gained its independence?
South Africa
c. Ukraine
Vietnam
d. Cuba
a.
b.
According to the map, how many countries gained their independence in 1945?
three
c. zero
four
d. two
9.
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ID: A
News of the Revolutionary War and the colonists’ hard-won independence spread throughout the world.
According to the map, which country was the first to follow in the colonists’ footsteps?
a. Mexico
c. Libya
b. France
d. Chile
____ 11. This man wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence.
a. Thomas Jefferson
c. Benjamin Franklin
b. John Adams
d. Samuel Adams
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Name: ________________________
ID: A
“I did not consider it any part of my charge to invent new ideas, but to place before mankind the common
sense of the subject in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent . . . It was intended to be an
expression of the American mind.”
—Thomas Jefferson
____ 12.
a.
b.
____ 13.
In this quote, Jefferson is referring to this, which he wrote in 1776.
English Bill of Rights
c. U.S. Constitution
Declaration of Independence
d. Magna Carta
The Declaration of Independence was divided into three sections. What was the subject of the second, or
middle section?
a. complaints against Charles I
c. justification for Boston Tea Party
b. choosing a democratic leader
d. complaints against George III
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Name: ________________________
ID: A
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. John Hancock
f.
b. William Paterson
g.
c. French and Indian War
h.
d. Thomas Paine
i.
e. Federalists
j.
Britain
Anti-Federalists
branches of government
George Washington
embargo
____ 14. struggle between France and Britain
____ 15. a ban on trade
____ 16. presided over the Continental Congress
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. government without representation
f.
b. Shays's Rebellion
g.
c. Benjamin Franklin
h.
d. anarchy
i.
j.
e. Mayflower Compact
____ 17. proposed Albany Plan of Union
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approve
Virginia House of Burgesses
concession on slavery
John Locke
unicameral