8th Grade History Test 3

Question 1

published Poor Richard’s Almanac

Answer 1

Benjamin Franklin

Question 2

the act of Parliament that levied a tax on all legal documents in the colonies

Answer 2

Stamp act

Question 3

led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga

Answer 3

Ethan allen

Question 4

What did the Olive Branch Petition attempt to do?

Answer 4

reconcile the colonies with the king

Question 5

What measure barred colonial settlement in all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 5

Proclamation of 1763

Question 6

What was the purpose of the checks and balances system

Answer 6

to control the power of each of the three branches of government

Question 7

the American patriot that became a traitor and helped the British in the War for Independence

Answer 7

Benedict Arnold

Question 8

What four words did President Washington use to end his oath of office?

Answer 8

“So help me God.”

Question 9

the first permanent European settlement in the United States

Answer 9

St. Augustine

Question 10

said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”

Answer 10

Nathan Hale

Question 11

the first institution of higher learning in America

Answer 11

Harvard College

Question 12

the first permanent English settlement in North America

Answer 12

Jamestown

Question 13

discovered Florida

Answer 13

Ponce de Leon

Question 14

the city in colonial America that served as a meeting place for the First and Second Continental Congresses

Answer 14

Philadelphia

Question 15

nailed the Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenburg, Germany, sparking the Protestant Reformation

Answer 15

Martin Luther

Question 16

served as Vice President under George Washington

Answer 16

John Adams

Question 17

helped Paul Revere spread the word of the British advancement

Answer 17

Dr. Samuel prescott

Question 18

the name given to the President’s advisers

Answer 18

Cabinet

Question 19

the great patriot who declared “Give me liberty, or give me death”

Answer 19

Patrick Henry

Question 20

What did the Boston Port Bill do?

Answer 20

closed the port of Boston to commerce

Question 21

became the first Secretary of the Treasury

Answer 21

Alexander Hamilton

Question 22

laid out the original plans for Washington, D.C.

Answer 22

Pierre L’Enfant

Question 23

“Father of American Conservatism”

Answer 23

John Adams

Question 24

candidate for the Democratic-Republican party in the election of 1796

Answer 24

Thomas Jefferson

Question 25

“Father of the Constitution”

Answer 25

James Madison

Question 26

best-known missionary to the Indians

Answer 26

David Brainerd

Question 27

great American intellect and theologian

Answer 27

Jonathan Edwards

Question 28

wrote “History of Plymouth Plantation”

Answer 28

William Bradford

Question 29

famous for his “singing schools”

Answer 29

William Billings

Question 30

our country was founded as a

Answer 30

federal republic

Question 31

Americans involved in the Boston Tea Party disguised themselves as

Answer 31

Indians

Question 32

the soldiers hired by King George to fight against the colonists

Answer 32

Hessians

Question 33

Alexander Hamilton is a good example of those belonging to which political party?

Answer 33

Federalist

Question 34

The Great Awakening is the name of the great revival that swept across which 18th-century country?

Answer 34

America

Question 35

The year the Protestant Reformation began

Answer 35

1492

Question 36

the author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Answer 36

Jonathan Edwards

Question 37

the first Secretary of State

Answer 37

Thomas Jefferson