Chapter 8 The American Revolution   1. The Continental Army had all the following advantages EXCEPT ____________     A) good supplies of food and equipment.     B) knowledge of the countryside.     C) belief in the cause it was defending.     D) good leadership.   2. Author Thomas Paine urged Americans to declare independence from Britain in a pamphlet called ____________     A) the Olive Branch Petition.     B) Lee's resolution.     C) Common Sense.     D) the Declaration of Independence.   3. The writer of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was ____________     A) Thomas Jefferson.     B) Benjamin Franklin.     C) John Adams.     D) John Locke.   4. Colonists who opposed separation from Great Britain were called ____________     A) Patriots.     B) Loyalists.     C) Hessians.     D) Green Mountain Boys.   5. To prevent goods and supplies from entering or leaving the colonies, the British ____________     A) set up a blockade of colonial ports.     B) paid armed privateers to guard the coast.     C) recruited the help of Native Americans.     D) attacked the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea   6. The Battle of Saratoga was important because it ____________     A) persuaded France to openly support the Patriots.     B) was the last battle the Patriots won.     C) cut off New England from the rest of the colonies.     D) caught Britain's Hessian soldiers off guard.   7. George Rogers Clark succeeded in ____________     A) weakening Britain's hold on the western frontier.     B) recruiting most Native Americans to join the Patriots.     C) building forts and trenches for the Patriots.     D) organizing the first American cavalry.   8. The ship captain who became known as "The Father of the American Navy" was ____________     A) Barry St. Leger.     B) John Burgoyne.     C) George Rogers Clark.     D) John Paul Jones.   9. After France entered the war, the British turned their attention to the South because ____________     A) they believed Loyalist support was stronger there.     B) there had been many fierce conflicts in the South.     C) they hoped to sign up many enslaved African Americans.     D) the land of the South was more familiar to them.   10. The Continental Army officer who betrayed George Washington and the Patriot cause was ____________     A) Charles Cornwallis.     B) Nathaniel Greene.     C) Benedict Arnold.     D) Peter Francisco.   11. One woman who worked as a spy for the Continental Army was ____________     A) Lydia Darragh.     B) Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.     C) Molly Pitcher.     D) Mercy Otis Warren.   12. British General Charles Cornwallis was forced to surrender because ____________     A) George Washington had requested a cease-fire.     B) British forces refused to come to his aid.     C) Lord North wanted to end the war.     D) he was completely surrounded and trapped.   13. The British surrender at Yorktown took place on ____________     A) October 17, 1781.     B) October 19, 1781.     C) August 29, 1781.     D) September 3, 1783.   14. According to the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Britain gave Florida to ____________     A) France.     B) the United States.     C) Spain.     D) Canada.   15. After the American Revolution, the boundaries of the United States reached as far west as the ____________     A) Mississippi River.     B) Appalachian Mountains.     C) Great Lakes.     D) Rocky Mountains.