Chapter 2 Quiz Flashcards
The most powerful voice of the Great Awakening was _____.
Jonathan Edwards
Isaac Watts
George Whitfield
George Whitfield
In a speech, ______ said, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
Paul Revere
Patrick Henry
The Stamp Act was a tax that only colonist had to pay on ______.
Coffee
Documents
Glass
Documents
One of the Intolerable Acts of the British was to ______ Boston Harbor.
Blockade
Sell
Tax
Blockade
Colonist, who wanted America to remain under England’s rule were called _____.
Loyalists
Minutemen
Patriots
Loyalists
True or False
The colonist fight alongside the British soldiers in the French and Indian war.
True
True or False
General Braddock thought the French and Indian war should be felt the same way armies, fought in Europe.
True
True or False
After the French and Indian war, the English took control of all the land west of the Mississippi River.
False
True or False
The colonist did not have representatives in England to speak for them in government like the English did.
True
True or False
The Boston Massacre occurred when the sons of liberty threw English tea into the Boston Harbor.
False
True or False
The First Continental Congress met to list the rights American colonist should have.
True
True or False
The American war for independence began in 1775.
True
True or Flase
Benjamin Franklin was elected president of the Second Continental Congress.
False
During the second continental congress, _____ was appointed as commander-in-chief of the continental army.
George Washington
