Social Science Test

Question 1

1: The Continental Congress did NOT…

Answer 1

levi taxes

Question 2

2: What was the significance of the Battle of the Combahee River?

Answer 2

exemplified small-scale combat after the British formally ended major offensive operations

Question 3

3: Who said, “We are all republicans, We are all federalists”?

Answer 3

Thomas Jefferson

Question 4

4: Which tribe was NOT a member of the IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY

Answer 4

the Wampanoag

Question 5

5: Which political body seemed to parallel America’s Continental Congress?

Answer 5

the French National Assembly

Question 6

6: True/False-
plantation owners, lawyers, merchants and farmers all supported the american patriots.

Answer 6

true

Question 7

7: Order the following in correct chronological order-
- Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, the Townshend Acts

Answer 7

• Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party

Question 8

8: Why did Hamilton include a “whisky tax” in his financial plan approved by the house of representatives?

Answer 8

to eliminate Revolutionary war debt

Question 9

9: Meaning of secret phrase conveyed by hanging lanterns in the church’s steeple of the Old North Church “one if my land, two if by sea”

Answer 9

british plan of approach into Lexington and Concord to seize supplies and capture leaders.

Question 10

10: Where did the first enslaved African Americans arrive in future US?

Answer 10

Port Comfort, Virginia

Question 11

All of the following were features of Shay’s Rebellion EXCEPT it

Answer 11

was largely urban

Question 12

Of the groups listed below, which one BEST represents the primary group at odds with British soldiers in Boston in March 1770?

Answer 12

young, poor, laboring men

Question 13

During the Confederation Congress, the Federalists were sometimes called the

Answer 13

Nationalists

Question 14

The Age of Revolutions witnessed a global decline in the number of

Answer 14

absolutist monarchies

Question 15

In winter 1776, George Washington’s troops at Morristown were inoculated against

Answer 15

smallpox

Question 16

How did Congressional delegates achieve consensus in the creation and passage of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union?

Answer 16

They created a limited national government with clearly delineated powers

Question 17

Who led the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Greenville of 1795?

Answer 17

Anthony Wayne

Question 18

Which four diplomats represented the United States in Paris to negotiate the end of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 18

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens

Question 19

Which group in western Massachusetts was especially angered by the increase in property taxes in 1786 and modeled their revolt on the Patriot resistance to Britain’s high taxes and unresponsive government?

Answer 19

farmers

Question 20

Which two countries signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1778?

Answer 20

America and France

Question 21

From which two groups did the Native American scouts of Anthony Wayne’s forces derive?

Answer 21

Miami and Choctaw

Question 22

When the representatives of seven American legislatures met at the Albany Congress in 1754, their main topic of debate was….

Answer 22

the relations with the French and Native American tribes

Question 23

For what is Richard Allen famous?

Answer 23

He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Question 24

With delegates at the Continental Congress in mind, why did John Adams select Thomas Jefferson to create the first draft of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 24

Adams believed delegates were more likely to unite behind a Virginian.

Question 25

How did the Siege of Charleston end on May 12, 1780

Answer 25

in the unconditional surrender of American troops

Question 26

What did Christopher Monk, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, Crispus Attucks, and Samuel Maverick have in common?

Answer 26

They were killed by the British at the Boston Massacre.

Question 27

Which two groups of Americans were the largest beneficiaries of the American Revolution?

Answer 27

yeoman farmers and urban artisans

Question 28

How did women play pivotal roles during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 28

women prepared tea substitutes, women wove their own homespun cloth, women maintained farms, women ran businesses

Question 29

Where did the first US Congress meet in March 1789?

Answer 29

in New York’s Federal Hall

Question 30

In which area of the world was the global conflict of the Seven Years’ war NOT front?

Answer 30

Southern Africa