Pre-Revolution

Question 0

Who said “We have an old mother… She snubs us like children that can’t walk alone… She forgets we’re grown up and have a sense of our own?”

Answer 0

Benjamin Franklin

Question 1

Period of time in which Americans gained a sense of identity?

Answer 1

Salutary Neglect

Question 2

Tax placed on sugar and other imports by George Greenville?

Answer 2

Sugar Act

Question 3

Line that kept colonists east of the Appalachians after winning the War of 1812?

Answer 3

Proclamation Line of 1763

Question 4

Act which made every piece of paper require a stamp, causing colonists to pay excess taxes? This was introduced by who?

Answer 4

Stamp Act, George Grenville

Question 5

Organization that responded to the excess taxations placed on the colonists in a radical manner? One of the heads of this organization was? They tried a more diplomatic approach, creating this to try to get the crown to reduce taxations?

Answer 5

Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams, and the Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Question 6

Type of courts system that paid the judge for each conviction he made?

Answer 6

Admiralty courts

Question 7

Type of representation given to the colonists during pre-revolutionary times?

Answer 7

Virtual representation

Question 8

Method used by George III in a way of completely removing the colonists voice? He used it 435 times.

Answer 8

The Royal Veto

Question 9

Acts which placed an indirect tax on paper, paint, lead, glass, and TEA?

Answer 9

Townshend Acts

Question 10

Documents that allowed British authorities to search the homes of colonists?

Answer 10

Writs of Assistance

Question 11

Case which lead to the belief that private property must have protection from unlawful search and seizures? “A mans house is his castle”

Answer 11

James Otis case

Question 12

Play-write and founder of “Spinning Bees?”

Answer 12

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 13

Event in which 5 colonists were killed by redcoats? They were defended by who in court?

Answer 13

Boston Massacre, John Adams

Question 14

Groups formed to ignite passion and zeal in the colonists against the red coats? Started by who?

Answer 14

Committees of Correspondance, Sam Adams

Question 15

Which acts put Boston under martial law, shut down the harbor, and implemented a new quartering act?

Answer 15

Intolerable Acts

Question 16

Act which gave the French the OH river valley and allowed them to govern themselves?

Answer 16

Quebec Act

Question 17

Meeting in which colonies began storing weapons and training militias? “Attack on one is an attack on all”

Answer 17

First Continental Congress

Question 18

Poet who wrote about Paul Revere, giving him widespread fame?

Answer 18

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow