The Road to Revolution (Unit 03 Lessons 07 & 08)

Question 1

Which group of people were part of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 1

Patriots

Question 2

What did colonists dislike MOST about the Stamp Act?

Answer 2

No colonial representatives voted on the tax

Question 3

Which act led to widespread boycott of British goods (products)?

Answer 3

Townshend Acts

Question 4

What was the purpose of naming the incident in Boston the Boston Massacre?

Answer 4

It created bad feelings about the British

Question 5

What did loyalists feel was needed after the Boston Massacre?

Answer 5

A stronger British Military force in the colonies.

Question 6

What event is the reason for the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 6

Boston Tea Party

Question 7

What did the First Continental Congress try to accomplish?

Answer 7

Tried to repair the relationship of Britain.

Question 8

What lesson did the battles of Lexington & Concord teach the British?

Answer 8

The colonists were willing to fight for freedom.

Question 9

Access to land, religious freedoms, economic opportunity and self government led the population of the American colonies to do what?

Answer 9

Increase to over a million.

Question 10

Which group(s) of people had the right to vote in the colonies?

Answer 10

White men.

Question 11

Who led the Virginia Militia when they tried to get the French to leave the Ohio Valley?

Answer 11

George Washington

Question 12

Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 12

To keep the colonists off of indigenous land.

Question 13

What did the Stamp Act require of all colonists?

Answer 13

A stamp on every piece of paper.

Question 14

What was the only tax left in place when Parliament repealed the Townshend Act? Why?

Answer 14

Tea. The king wanted to leave one tax in place so he could add more later.

Question 15

Was Patrick Henry a Loyalist, Patriot or neutral?

Answer 15

Patriot

Question 16

Soldiers from these places made up the Continental Army.

Answer 16

All 13 colonies.

Question 17

Right after the battles of Lexington & Concord, what as the general sentiment about going to war with Britain?

Answer 17

Colonists were reluctant to begin a war.

Question 18

What was the outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 18

The British won and the colonists retreated.

Question 19

George Washington was chosen to lead the Continental Army because ______.

Answer 19

He had experience.

Question 20

When colonists read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, it convinced them to believe ______.

Answer 20

The colonies should be independent.

Question 21

What was the purpose of the Olive Branch petition?

Answer 21

To ask the king to work toward a peaceful solution.

Question 22

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 22

To explain WHY the colonies were separating from Great Britain.

Question 23

How do people get natural rights?

Answer 23

All people are born with natural rights.

Question 24

Thomas Jefferson said that the power to rule comes from this group of people.

Answer 24

The people

Question 25

What did King George III deny the colonists?

Answer 25

Their rights

Question 26

What event happened on July 4, 1776?

Answer 26

The Declaration of Independence was signed.

Question 27

The 13 colonies cooperated to bring their militia together and form this.

Answer 27

The Continental Army.

Question 28

King George III and Parliament felt the Declaration of Independence was an act of _______.

Answer 28

Treason