The American Revolution

Question 1

Who created the Albany plan of union

Answer 1

Benjamin Franklin

Question 2

What did the committees of correspondence do

Answer 2

Reported on events on Massachusetts

Question 3

Who set up the first committee of correspondence

Answer 3

Samuel Adams

Question 4

Why was the battle of your town so important

Answer 4

Cornwallis surrendered his army

Question 5

What is the name of the British general who surrendered at Yorktown

Answer 5

Cornwallis

Question 6

What was the Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 6

It officially ended the war British agreed to see do US as an independent nation

Question 7

What is the Declaration of Independence

Answer 7

Is document using claiming independence from England

Question 8

What three things does it say everyone has the right to

Answer 8

Life ,liberty and pursuit of happiness

Question 9

List three reasons why The Battle of Saratoga was so important

Answer 9

• Ended for British threat to New England
• Boosted American spirits
• Convinced France to become an ally of the US

Question 10

How did France help the Americans during the revolutionary war

Answer 10

Man abled support and supplies

Question 11

What was the olive branch petition

Answer 11

It asked you came to repeal the intolerable acts

Question 12

Why were the intolerable acts created to do and why

Answer 12

Laws passed by Parliament to push colonists Massachusetts for the Boston tea party

Question 13

Who created the intolerable acts

Answer 13

King George lll and Parliament

Question 14

What was the proclamation of 1763

Answer 14

A British law stated that the colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 15

Stamp act

Answer 15

Text legal documents such as bills, diplomas and marriage papers

Question 16

Why did the colonists protested the colonists

Answer 16

The colonists felt it wasn’t fair (no representation or voice)

Question 17

What did the sons and daughters of liberty do

Answer 17

Organize to develop ways to protest British policies

Question 18

Where did the French and Indian war take place

Answer 18

Ohio Valley

Question 19

What was the French and Indian war between

Answer 19

England and France

Question 20

Why was the French and Indian war fought

Answer 20

For landownership

Question 21

Why did Britain feel the colonist should pay taxes

Answer 21

They were running out of money so it was to raise money to defend them

Question 22

Quartering act

Answer 22

Housing had to be provided to British soldiers

Question 23

Non-importation agreements

Answer 23

Stop importing taxable goods

Question 24

No taxation without representation

Answer 24

You can’t tax us if you don’t Represent

Question 25

Sugar act of 1764

Answer 25

Placed a new tax on molasses

Question 26

Townshed acts

Answer 26

Taxed glass paper, paint, lead and Tea (it came after the stamp act)

Question 27

Samuel Adams

Answer 27

Organize a committee for correspondence

Question 28

Boston massacre

Answer 28

British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonial protesters killing 5

Question 29

Boston tea party

Answer 29

Dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor

Question 30

Militia

Answer 30

Army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency

Question 31

What was The Albany plan of Union

Answer 31

An attempt to get Colonists to work together