American Revolution

Question 1

What battle does the following quote refer to: “ The shot heard around the world. “

Answer 1

The Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Question 2

In what year did the Battles of Lexington and Concord take place?

Answer 2

1775

Question 3

What war was fought in North America between the years of 1754 and 1763?

Answer 3

The French and Indian War

Question 4

What proclamation prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Answer 4

The Proclamation of 1763.

Question 5

What act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers?

Answer 5

The Quartering Act

Question 6

Why did the Stamp Act of 1765 anger the colonists?

Answer 6

It was the first direct tax put on all colonists.

Question 7

What was the 1767 Act the taxed manufactured goods shipped to the colonies, such as paper, glass, and paint?

Answer 7

Townshend Act

Question 8

What Act in 1773 allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonies: made imported tea cheaper, hurting colonial merchants?

Answer 8

Tea Act

Question 9

What group of women encouraged colonists to drink coffee instead of tea?

Answer 9

The Daughters of Liberty

Question 10

What was the name of the African American that was killed at the 1770 Boston Massacre?

Answer 10

Crispus Attucks

Question 11

What committee did Mercy Otis Warren set up to help spread news from Massachusetts to the other colonies?

Answer 11

Committee of Correspondence

Question 12

What year was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 12

1773

Question 13

What are three parts of the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 13

Port of Boston closed, Massachusetts rights of self-government taken away, lalnd west of the Appalachians made part of Canada.

Question 14

What year did the American Revolution start?

Answer 14

1775

Question 15

What year did the American Revolution end?

Answer 15

1783

Question 16

What was the name of the peace agreement that ended the AMerican Revolution?

Answer 16

Treaty of Paris

Question 17

What was the name of the militia that was meant to be ready to fight with a one minute warning?

Answer 17

Minutemen

Question 18

What was the bloodiest battle of the entire American Revolution?

Answer 18

The Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 19

Who was the head of the Continental Army?

Answer 19

George Washington

Question 20

Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense”?

Answer 20

Thomas Paine

Question 21

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

Answer 21

July 4th, 1776

Question 22

What is the name given to the introduction to the Declaration of Indepenence?

Answer 22

The Preamble.

Question 23

In which part of the Declaration were the pronciples of the new nation discussed?

Answer 23

THe second part.

Question 24

In which part of the Declaration was the United States of America declared independent from Britian?

Answer 24

The fourth part.