Test 2 - Quarter 1

Question 1

1. What is the spillover of the conflict between France and England in the New World?

Answer 1

The French and Indian war

Question 2

What are the countries of Sweden, Austria, and France attempting to do at the start of the Seven Year’s War?

Answer 2

Get rid of Prussia’s king, Frederick the Great

Question 3

What are the two objectives the British Parliament are desperate to accomplish after the French and Indian War?

Answer 3

tax the colonists
restore the profitability of the East Indian Trading Company

Question 4

What are the two examples of early colonial self-governance from our notes?

Answer 4

The Mayflower compact And the House of burgesses

Question 5

In what state and in what year was the House of Burgesses set up?

Answer 5

Virginia 1619

Question 6

What document set up Democracy in the Massachusetts colony?

Answer 6

The Mayflower compact

Question 7

What is the earliest example of self-governance in the English colonies?

Answer 7

the house of burgesses

Question 8

What acts did the British government fail to enforce all parts of, while they were practicing the policy of Salutary Neglect?

Answer 8

The navigation acts

Question 9

What did the colonist do in response to increased British taxation?

Answer 9

They boycott British goods

Question 10

What piece of British legislation (laws) stated that the “British could do whatever they want to do in the colonies”?

Answer 10

The Declaratory acts

Question 11

What acts did the colonists call the “Intolerable Acts”?

Answer 11

the coercive acts

Question 12

What did the Continental Army gain from the capture of Fort Ticonderoga?

Answer 12

Ammunition and artillery

Question 13

What important event caused militiamen began to flock to the areas around Boston, reaching some 20,000 strong?

Answer 13

Lexington and Concord

Question 14

What is the “last appeal to Britain for peace to avoid open war” that is rejected by the King? (It is NOT the Declaration of Independence).

Answer 14

Olive Branch petition

Question 15

Whose was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to lead the Continental Army?

Answer 15

Washington

Question 16

Why did the Patriots want control of Bunker and Breed’s Hill?

Answer 16

To be able to bombard cannons on Boston

Question 17

What does George Washington threaten to do to the British in Boston if they (British) do not leave?

Answer 17

Bombard cannons on Boston

Question 18

On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?

Answer 18

July 2nd 1776

Question 19

What is the name of the book written by Thomas Paine?

Answer 19

Common sense

Question 20

How many copies of Thomas Paine’s book sold in the first three months?

Answer 20

100,000

Question 21

In what city was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 21

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Question 22

Who made a motion in the Second Continental Congress to dissolve all ties with Britain?

Answer 22

Richard Henry Lee

Question 23

The core ideas of the Declaration of Independence are based on whose philosophies?

Answer 23

John Locke’s

Question 24

What British notion did Thomas Paine disagree with?

Answer 24

The Divine rights of Kings

Question 25

What are the 4 things that the Second Continental Congress did?

Answer 25

they formed the Continental Army, led by George Washington
they commisioned, drafted and signed the Olive Branch Petition
they printed paper money to pay troops
they began acting like a government

Question 26

Name the 5 men put on the comity to craft/create the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 26

Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Roger Sherman
Robert Livingston

Question 27

What are the 3 arguments that Thomas Paine makes for the separation of America from the British Empire?

Answer 27

America should have its own destiny
disagreed against the economic arguments against America’s freedom
all monarchies are corrupt

Question 28

Who famously said “our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe”?

Answer 28

Thomas Paine

Question 29

French and Indian War:

Answer 29

the spillover of conflict from the Seven Year War

Question 30

House of Burgesses:

Answer 30

the first example of self governance
Virginia, 1619

Question 31

Mayflower Compact:

Answer 31

the democracy set up in the Massachsetts colony
1620

Question 32

Compact:

Answer 32

an agreement or contract between a group of ppl

Question 33

Boycott:

Answer 33

refusal to buy goods from a certain company / country

Question 34

Independence:

Answer 34

free from rule

Question 35

Patriot:

Answer 35

a colonist fighting for independence

Question 36

Loyalist:

Answer 36

a colonist that wanted to stay loyal to Britain

Question 37

Artillery:

Answer 37

cannons and large GUNS

Question 38

Green Mountain Boys:

Answer 38

Ethan Allen and his men who took over Fort Ticonderoga and gained artillery

Question 39

Olive Branch Petition:

Answer 39

the last appeal to the British empire to fix problems with open war