history quiz

Question 1

Who won the French and Indian War

Answer 1

British in North America enlarged the British empire but led to new conflicts with colonists

Question 2

Why does British winning matter now?

Answer 2

Helped spread english language throughout North America

Question 3

banned all settlement west of the Appalachians

Answer 3

Proclamation of 1763

Question 4

fought for who could take vast colonial territory of North America

Answer 4

french and Indian war

Question 5

-halved the duty on foreign made molasses
- placed duties on certain imports
- strengthened the enforcement of the law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice - admirality instead of a sympathetic colonial court

Answer 5

sugar act

Question 6

-in control of Great Britain and Ireland
-lost america and his mind

Answer 6

king George lll

Question 7

required american colonies to provide quarters to British forces stationed in their own towns or villages

Answer 7

quartering act

Question 8

four laws passed by British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston tea party

Answer 8

intolerable acts

Question 9

a law in 1773 giving all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India company

Answer 9

tea act

Question 10

-pounds of tea dumped into the Boston Harbor
- one of the key events that led up to the revolutionary war

Answer 10

Boston tea party

Question 11

-english philosopher
-idea that the life, liberty and property are natural rights

Answer 11

John Locke

Question 12

• one of the great political philosophers of enlightment
  -created separation of powers

Answer 12

baron de montesquieu

Question 13

montesquieu

Answer 13

legislative - made laws (congress)
executive - administrate laws (president)
judicial - interpreted laws

Question 14

-important figure in history of philosophy
- wrote social contract
-believed ppl were born good, but corrupted by bad government and laws
-believed best government used popular sovereignty

Answer 14

Rousseu

Question 15

rule that governs human nature

Answer 15

natural law

Question 16

right that belongs to all humans from birth

Answer 16

natural right

Question 17

required colonists to purchase special stamped paper
for every legal document, license, newspaper,

Answer 17

stamp act

Question 18

a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization

Answer 18

sons of liberty

Question 19

initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Answer 19

Townshend acts

Question 20

a skirmish between colonist rioters and British soldiers that ended with five colonists’ deaths.

Answer 20

Boston massacre

Question 21

It was the group of leaders who worked to create the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 21

second continental congress

Question 22

each colony set up its own government and congress declares colonies independent

Answer 22

John Adams plan

Question 23

-to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared.
-“former harmony”

Answer 23

The olive branch petition

Question 24

trust their own feelings about what was right and just and how the country should be run - according to Thomas Paine

Answer 24

Common sense

Question 25

founding father of declaration of independence

Answer 25

Thomas Jefferson

Question 26

God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Answer 26

declaration of independence

Question 27

a person who loves his or her country and is ready to boldly support and defend it.

Answer 27

patriot

Question 28

one who is or remains loyal to a political cause, government, or sovereign especially in times of revolt.

Answer 28

loyalist

Question 29

causes and effects of french and Indian war

Answer 29

competing British and French interests in North America;

Question 30

how did the french and Indian war create tension between the colonists and British governments

Answer 30

British started taxing colonists to pay back since they won the war

Question 31

What events led to tension between the colonists and Britain? Which were the more significant events, and why?

Answer 31

Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773)

Question 32

How did the colonies begin to show forms of unity? Provide specific examples.

Answer 32

the First Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances.

Question 33

What ideas influenced the American Revolution? Give specific examples.

Answer 33

The right to representation, political independence, separation of church and state,

Question 34

How did the Enlightenment inspire the Declaration of Independence? Identify the thoughts of specific thinkers.

Answer 34

John Locke, an influential Enlightenment philosopher, argued that people are born with certain inalienable rights that no government can take away

Question 35

difference between loyalists and patriots

Answer 35

Loyalists were those who remained loyal to British rule, while Patriots supported colonial independence and self-rule