Revolutionary War Test

Question 1

Sugar Act

Answer 1

This act cut the price of the molasses act in half but also put a tax on textiles, wine, coffee, and sugar.

Question 2

Currency Act

Answer 2

No more paper money just coins like in England

Question 3

Stamp act

Answer 3

A tax is placed on all printed material

Question 4

Quartering Act

Answer 4

Colonists were required to provide housing and food for the soliders in the colonies

Question 5

Declatory act

Answer 5

All laws were binding in the colonies

Question 6

Revenue Act

Answer 6

A tax was placed on all imports to the colonies

Question 7

Tea act

Answer 7

England lowers the price of tea but keeps a tax on it so it would be the same price as usual and they would just make even more tax money

Question 8

Intolerable Acts

Answer 8

1) closed Boston harbor until all tea was paid for
2) ability to take trials back to England
3) quartering act more strongly reenforced
4) government officials will now be appointed not elected

Question 9

Quebec Act

Answer 9

Legislative government in Canada is appointed by King and Catholics get special privileges

Question 10

Conciliatory act

Answer 10

Colonies can collect tax on the trade money they acquire in their boundaries but had to make voluntary contributions back to England

Question 11

Continental congress

Answer 11

A group of representatives from each colony to pass decisions for the colonies and write important documents

Question 12

Battles of Lexington and concord

Answer 12

First battles of the revolutionary war and the British were attacking to try and destroy the supply house of weapons of the colonies and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock

Question 13

Sons of Liberty

Answer 13

A patriot group founded to organize protest against Britain

Question 14

What are the results of the stamp act congress

Answer 14

The declaration of rights and grievances was passed which said that parliament had no right to pass these acts and tax the colonies

Question 15

Letters of a Pennsylvania farmer

Answer 15

Written by John Dickinson. Says that parliament has a right to regulate colonial commerce but not change taxes to make revenue

Question 16

Boston massacre

Answer 16

Occurred when sons of Liberty were bullying some soldiers so they shot into the crowd because they thought their lives were endangered

Question 17

What was the objective of the tea act

Answer 17

To sell the tea that was sitting and not making England any money

Question 18

Battle of bunker hill

Answer 18

3 waves of British soldiers came up the hill and the first 2 were defeated but the 3rd overcame the colonists

Question 19

Battle of Quebec

Answer 19

Colonies thought they could beat England here when they were totally wrong. 2 forces came up, 1 from NY and the other from Maine. They got crushed in this battle

Question 20

Common sense

Answer 20

Written by Thomas Paine, it is a political document saying why to fight for the colonies and convinced people to stop being loyalist

Question 21

Sam Adams

Answer 21

A political thinker who was a leader of the sons and was in the continental congress

Question 22

Ethan Allen

Answer 22

Leader of the green mountain boys in Vermont

Question 23

Crisps Attucks

Answer 23

1st man to die in the Boston massacre

Question 24

John Dickinson

Answer 24

Wrote letters of a Pennsylvania farmer

Question 25

Paul revere

Answer 25

One of the sons who took the midnight ride and was a messenger for the colonial army

Question 26

Molasses Act

Answer 26

A tax was put on molasses to stop trade with the French sugar islands