Week 11 Review

Question 1

American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:

Answer 1

John Paul Jones

Question 2

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:

Answer 2

Saratoga

Question 3

Date of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 3

April 19, 1775

Question 4

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 4

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 5

British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:

Answer 5

Cornwallis

Question 6

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 6

taxation without representation

Question 7

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 7

1492

Question 8

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 8

George Washington

Question 9

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 9

1770

Question 10

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 10

1773

Question 11

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 11

July 4, 1776

Question 12

Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:

Answer 12

September 3, 1783

Question 13

Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:

Answer 13

the Treaty of Paris

Question 14

Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 14

Second Treaty of Paris

Question 15

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

Who said it?

Answer 15

General William Prescott

Question 16

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

What was the occasion?

Answer 16

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 17

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 17

John Cabot

Question 18

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 18

Puritans

Question 19

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 19

Christopher Columbus

Question 20

Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:

Answer 20

Boston Massacre

Question 21

Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:

Answer 21

Boston Tea Party

Question 22

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:

Answer 22

crossing of the Delaware

Question 23

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 23

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 24

Father of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 24

Thomas Jefferson

Question 25

Final battle of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 25

Yorktown

Question 26

Financed Columbus’s first voyage:

Answer 26

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 27

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 27

Lexington and Concord

Question 28

Date of the First Continental Congress:

Answer 28

September 1774

Question 29

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 29

Roanoke

Question 30

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 30

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 31

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 31

Vasco da Gama

Question 32

First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:

Answer 32

The House of Burgesses

Question 33

First lasting English colony:

Answer 33

Jamestown

Question 34

First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:

Answer 34

First Continental Congress

Question 35

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 35

1. trade and navigation laws
2. stamp act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Massacre
5. the Five Intolerable Acts

Question 36

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 36

1754-1763

Question 37

French nobleman who served in the American army:

Answer 37

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 38

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 38

Jacques Cartier

Question 39

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 39

William Prescott

Question 40

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 40

James Wolfe

Question 41

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 41

Captian John Smith

Question 42

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

Who said it?

Answer 42

John Paul Jones

Question 43

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

What was the occasion?

Answer 43

naval battle with British

Question 44

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

Answer 44

Patrick Henry

Question 45

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Answer 45

Nathan Hale

Question 46

King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:

Answer 46

Henry the Navigator

Question 47

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 47

Pennsylvania

Question 48

Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:

Answer 48

Manhattan Island

Question 49

Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:

Answer 49

the Navigation Act

Question 50

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 50

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 51

Name the thirteen original colonies:

Answer 51

1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia

Question 52

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 52

Samoset and Squanto

Question 53

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 53

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 54

President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:

Answer 54

John Hancock

Question 55

Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 55

Oliver Cromwell

Question 56

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 56

Separatists

Question 57

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 57

“the shot heard round the world”

Question 58

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 58

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 59

Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:

Answer 59

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 60

Date of the Second Continental Congress:

Answer 60

May 1775

Question 61

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 61

Pilgrims

Question 62

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 62

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 63

“That man has an ax to grind.”

Answer 63

Benjamin Franklin

Question 64

The agreement that established a form of government for the pilgrims:

Answer 64

Mayflower Compact

Question 65

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 65

Native Americans

Question 66

The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:

Answer 66

Lief Ericson

Question 67

The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:

Answer 67

Nathan Hale

Question 68

Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:

Answer 68

Benedict Arnold

Question 69

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 69

minutemen

Question 70

War between France and England in America:

Answer 70

the French and Indian War

Question 71

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 71

the Seven Years’ War

Question 72

Who established the first English colony in America?

Answer 72

Sir Walter Raleigh