US History - test 2

Question 1

What was the Olive Branch petition?

Answer 1

Colonies trying to avoid war by asking the king to respond to their grievances

Question 2

What was the first direct tax on internal goods in the colonies?

Answer 2

The stamp act - tax on all printed material

Question 3

What group thought colonists should stay loyal to Britain?

Answer 3

Loyalists

Question 4

The Declaration of Independence was based on ideas from what philosopher?

Answer 4

John Locke

Question 5

What date was the Declaration of Independence approved by the 2CC?

Answer 5

7/4/1776

Question 6

What were the Intolerable Acts actually named by Parliament?

Answer 6

Coercive Acts

Question 7

What caused the Americans to lose at the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Answer 7

They ran out of ammunition

Question 8

The debt from the French and Indian war caused the British government to do what in the colonies?

Answer 8

tax the colonies and stricter trade laws

Question 9

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 9

It said the colonies couldn’t settle west of the Appalachian mountains and brought in 10,000 British troops

Question 10

What act stated Britain had the right to tax their colonies “in all cases”?

Answer 10

The Stamp Act

Question 11

Who were the Minutemen?

Answer 11

Colonists ready to fight at a moments notice

Question 12

Who was Crispus Attucks?

Answer 12

The first person killed in the revolution

Question 13

What did some colonists do to avoid paying British taxes?

Answer 13

boycott

Question 14

What were the Suffolk Resolves?

Answer 14

Declared the coercive acts illegal and encouraged colonists to arm themselves

Question 15

What was one action the Second Continental Congress did?

Answer 15

created the continental army, printed money, set up post office, set up governments

Question 16

Who was chosen to lead the Continental Army?

Answer 16

George Washington

Question 17

What about the Tea Act made the colonists so angry?

Answer 17

They didn’t want to be controlled

Question 18

What happened in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 18

British soldiers killed 5 colonists

Question 19

Who was put in charge of the new Post Office created by the 2CC?

Answer 19

Benjamin Franklin

Question 20

What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord later known as?

Answer 20

Start of the war

Question 21

What were the Writs of Assistance?

Answer 21

They allowed British officers to search colonists’ homes for smuggled goods

Question 22

Who warned the towns around Concord by shouting “The British are coming!”?

Answer 22

Paul Revere

Question 23

Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 23

Thomas Jefferson

Question 24

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 24

It lowered the tax on molasses so colonists would stop smuggling it

Question 25

What insult was shouted at the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre?

Answer 25

“Come on, you rascals, you bloody
backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire, if
you dare!”