History Exam

Question 1

When was the American Revolution?

Answer 1

1775-1783

Question 2

French Indian War

Answer 2

1754-1763

Question 3

Proclamation Line

Answer 3

1763

Question 4

Sugar Tax

Answer 4

1764

Question 5

Stamp Act

Answer 5

1765

Question 6

Boston Town Meeting

Answer 6

1764, they were not represented and saying their rights have been violated by the British. The British do not listen.

Question 7

‘No taxation without Representation’

Answer 7

Americans do not feel like they are being properly represented in court. American MPs are from England no relationship with Americans.

Question 8

Currency Act

Answer 8

1764, override American acts and anyone who infringes on it finned 10 thousand pound, trialed with no jury.

Question 9

Responce to Stamp Act

Answer 9

Massachusetts invite colonies to come together and form a response to the king.

Question 10

Sons of Liberty

Answer 10

1765 Radical group, target stamp act members in Boston. They hang an effigy of Oliver from the ‘Liberty Tree’

Question 11

The Townshend Act

Answer 11

176, tax imports from Britain, glass, silk, paper, paint and tea.

Question 12

Letters form a farmer - John Dickinson

Answer 12

“We cannot be happy, without being free…we cannot be free, without being secure in our property… we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away.”

Question 13

The Boston Massacre

Answer 13

1770, 3 killed, 8 injured by the English standing army. Worsens tension colonist felt subordinate.

Question 14

‘Non Importation Association’

Answer 14

Boycott British goods, form groups to make this easier.

Question 15

Boston Tea party

Answer 15

1773, then Boston Port closed until they paid 10 thousand pound for the tea dumped (1774 in Intolerable Acts).

Question 16

Administration of Justice Act

Answer 16

1774, American officials would be trialed in England.

Question 17

Quartering Act

Answer 17

Solders can take up residents in any vacant building in America.

Question 18

The Continental Congress

Answer 18

Met Oct of 1774, 55 men from colonies, declare the intolerable acts unconstitutional.

Question 19

Second Continental Congress

Answer 19

Met 75 April, fight the British, America wins. British loose 273 America looses 95.

Question 20

Quote on the first battle 75

Answer 20

“The shot heard around the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, 1837.

Question 21

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 21

1775 July, ‘final stab at reconciliation’ King declares it is a smoke screen as they are preparing for war.

Question 22

Prohibitory Act

Answer 22

1775, they are no longer protected by the English, could seize their ships.

Question 23

Quote on The Prohibitory Act

Answer 23

John Adams called it the ‘Act of Independency’ stating “It is a complete dismemberment of the British Empire.” 1776.

Question 24

‘Common Sense’

Answer 24

Thomas Paine, 1776. That the king is a tyrant and that independency is the only way forward. “The birthday of a new world is at hand”

Question 25

The Declaration of Independence

Answer 25

1776, “In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress… our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

Question 26

Organise for war

Answer 26

“Congress was too inefficient to correct its own inefficiency.” - Forrest McDonald.