HISTORY

Question 0

Who were the first “Americans?”

Answer 0

Asians

Question 1

How did the first “Americans” arrive here?

Answer 1

land bridge

Question 2

What do we call followers of the religion Islam?

Answer 2

Muslims

Question 3

Which company did Christopher sail for?

Answer 3

Spain

Question 4

Which disease did most settlers get from the mosquitoes?

Answer 4

Malaria

Question 5

Who became the leader of Jamestown?

Answer 5

John Smith

Question 6

Who were considered separatists from the Church of England?

Answer 6

Pilgrims

Question 7

Which Native American helped the Pilgrims?

Answer 7

Squanto

Question 8

Which country started the colony of New Netherlands?

Answer 8

Dutch

Question 9

Who started the colony of Pennsylvania?

Answer 9

William Penn

Question 10

Where did the first organized public school system develop?

Answer 10

Massachusetts

Question 11

Who sold the first slaves to English colonies?

Answer 11

Dutch

Question 12

What was peculiar institution?

Answer 12

slavery

Question 13

How many years of schooling did Benjamin Franklin have?

Answer 13

2

Question 14

Which section of “America” controlled the colonial government?

Answer 14

East

Question 15

In colonial America, the colonies belonged to _____________.

Answer 15

The king

Question 16

Who was responsible for enforcing rules in the colonies?

Answer 16

governor

Question 17

What stated that all goods passing between the colonies and England must be carried in ships that had been built either in Great Britain or in the colonies?

Answer 17

Navigation Acts

Question 18

What war was also known as the 7 years war in Europe?

Answer 18

French and Indian War

Question 19

The Sugar Act actually decreased the tax on what good?

Answer 19

Molasses

Question 20

What is the phrase when the taxes and laws are made by people of which the colonists did not elect into office?

Answer 20

Taxation Without Representation

Question 21

What was the first act of resistance to British authority?

Answer 21

Sons of Liberty

Question 22

What is the Spanish word for “conqueror”

Answer 22

conquistador

Question 23

Who was fighting whom in the Crusades?

Answer 23

Muslims vs. Christians

Question 24

What was the first elected government body in America?

Answer 24

House of Burgesses

Question 25

What was the name of the first permanent European settlement in America?

Answer 25

St. Augustine, FL

Question 26

Why did many African Americans join the Methodist church?

Answer 26

Methodists were against slavery

Question 27

What did Benjamin Franklin write every year?

Answer 27

Poor Richards Almanac

Question 28

Is it fair to credit Christopher Columbus with the discovery of America?

Answer 28

It is not fair because he was not the first person to discover America.

Question 29

Explain the Boston Massacre and the events that led up to the conflict.

Answer 29

The Boston Massacre was when the colonists took action against British soldiers. This caused the soldiers to fire their guns into the crowd, killing 5. This happened because the colonists were unhappy with the king's taxes.

Question 30

What act of Parliament enabled a major British company to sell tea directly to the American colonies?

Answer 30

Tea Act

Question 31

What was the name of the company that enabled a major British company to sell tea directly to the American colonies?

Answer 31

British East India Company

Question 32

How would the Tea Act affect the British East India Company's finance?

Answer 32

it would increase

Question 33

What condition exists when only one business provides a product or service in a certain market?

Answer 33

monopoly

Question 34

What happened to the price of the tea?

Answer 34

it decreased

Question 35

Which tea did the colonists prefer?

Answer 35

Dutch tea

Question 36

How did the British think that the colonists would react?

Answer 36

they would accept it

Question 37

How did the colonists react to the Tea Act?

Answer 37

angrily because it made a monopoly

Question 38

What was the name of the ship that a lot of tea was dumped off of?

Answer 38

Dartmouth

Question 39

What was the name of the acts that Parliament passed to make the colonists pay for tea they had destroyed?

Answer 39

Coercive Acts

Question 40

What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts?

Answer 40

Intolerable Acts

Question 41

What said that no ship could enter or leave the Boston Harbor until tea was paid for?

Answer 41

Boston Port Act

Question 42

What said that the governor gains power over the town meetings in the colonies?

Answer 42

Massachusetts Government Act

Question 43

What would colonists have to do for British troops?

Answer 43

Quarter them

Question 44

What gave the governor power to transfer trials of soldiers and royal officers accused of serious crimes to courts outside of Massachusetts?

Answer 44

Administration of Justice Act

Question 45

Who were the minutemen?

Answer 45

Revolutionary War soldier-civilians who were trained to fight on short notice

Question 46

Who warned the Americans that the British were coming?

Answer 46

William Dawes and Paul Revere

Question 47

What was the importance of a fort built on Breed's Hill?

Answer 47

It was a vantage point where the Americans could fire cannons at British ships

Question 48

If Americans ran out of ammo, what would they use?

Answer 48

nails and broken glass

Question 49

What did Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" say about kings?

Answer 49

they were a bad idea because they ruled themselves

Question 50

How did George Washington look?

Answer 50

tall, athletic, like a general

Question 51

How did George Washington act?

Answer 51

dignified, reserved, brave

Question 52

Which battle did George Washington attack a Hessian camp on Christmas morning?

Answer 52

Trenton

Question 53

If the British controlled the Hudson River, what colony could be cut off from the others?

Answer 53

New England

Question 54

Where were supplies and food scarce during the winter of 1777?

Answer 54

Germantown

Question 55

How had France helped the US before their treaty?

Answer 55

with loans, war supplies, and generals

Question 56

How had France helped the US after their treaty?

Answer 56

they would fight directly and openly against Great Britain

Question 57

What is a democracy?

Answer 57

government by the people

Question 58

Court decisions were gradually written down and became the basis for _________ ____.

Answer 58

common law

Question 59

Who had the idea that a ruler has only as long as he or she has the consent of the governed?

Answer 59

Locke

Question 60

Who had the idea that the community would vote on decisions?

Answer 60

Rousseau

Question 61

Who had the idea of a limited government?

Answer 61

Montesquieu

Question 62

What were the Americans afraid of?

Answer 62

taxes

Question 63

Who led the rebellion against the Articles of Confederation | What did the people begin thinking about after this rebellion?

Answer 63

Daniel Shays led the rebellion and made the people think that the Articles of Confederation could not maintain order in the land

Question 64

What did the Magna Carta accomplish?

Answer 64

limited the power of the king

Question 65

What philosophy was behind the Enlightenment?

Answer 65

the monarch rules with the consent of the people

Question 66

What did the Mayflower Compact establish?

Answer 66

the people had ultimate authority

Question 67

What topic did all state constitutions ignore?

Answer 67

slavery

Question 68

What was our first constitution?

Answer 68

Articles of Confederation

Question 69

What did the Article of Confederation call the USA?

Answer 69

League of friendship