Week 12 Review

Question 1

Two bodies of Congress:

Answer 1

House of Representatives and the Senate

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Paul Revere and William Dawes

Question 3

First European to reach India by sea:

Answer 3

Vasco da Gama

Question 4

War between France and England in America:

Answer 4

the French and Indian War

Question 5

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 5

April 19, 1775

Question 6

Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:

Answer 6

St. Augustine, Florida

Question 7

Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:

Answer 7

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 8

Date of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

July 4, 1776

Question 9

Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:

Answer 9

minutemen

Question 10

Father of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Nathan Hale

Question 12

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

Answer 12

the Treaty of Paris

Question 13

Law-making branch:

Answer 13

Legislative

Question 14

Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:

Answer 14

September 3, 1783

Question 15

The original inhabitants of this continent:

Answer 15

Native Americans

Question 16

Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:

Answer 16

George Washington

Question 17

Law-interpreting branch:

Answer 17

Judicial

Question 18

Second Continental Congress date:

Answer 18

May 1775

Question 19

Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:

Answer 19

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 20

Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:

Answer 20

Separatists

Question 21

Three branches of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:

Answer 21

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

Question 22

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

Answer 22

John Paul Jones

Question 23

Date of the Constitution:

Answer 23

March 4, 1789

Question 24

French nobleman who served in the American army:

Answer 24

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 25

Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:

Answer 25

crossing of the Delaware

Question 26

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

Answer 26

the Navigation Act

Question 27

Framework for the government of the United States:

Answer 27

the Constitution

Question 28

Land granted to William Penn:

Answer 28

Pennsylvania

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Boston Tea Party

Question 30

First lasting English colony:

Answer 30

Jamestown

Question 31

Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:

Answer 31

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 32

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Who said it?

Answer 32

General William Prescott

Question 33

War between France and England in Europe:

Answer 33

the Seven Years' War

Question 34

Document that established a central government for the United States:

Answer 34

the Articles of Confederation

Question 35

Law-enforcing branch:

Answer 35

Executive

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Henry the Navigator

Question 37

Head of the colony in Jamestown:

Answer 37

Captian John Smith

Question 38

Who establised the first English colony in America

Answer 38

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Boston Massacre

Question 40

Father of the Constitution:

Answer 40

James Madison

Question 41

First English colony in America, which disappeared:

Answer 41

Roanoke

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Manhattan Island

Question 43

First English sailor to circle the globe:

Answer 43

Sir Fancis Drake

Question 44

First president of the United States:

Answer 44

George Washington

Question 45

R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:

Answer 45

"the shot heard round the world"

Question 46

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" What was the occasion?

Answer 46

Battle of Bunker HIll

Question 47

Head of the law-making branch:

Answer 47

Congresss

Question 48

"That man has an ax to grind."

Answer 48

Benjamin Franklin

Question 49

Head of the law-enforcing branch:

Answer 49

President

Question 50

Financed Columbus's first voyage:

Answer 50

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

Question 51

English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:

Answer 51

John Cabot

Question 52

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:

Answer 52

John Jay

Question 53

Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:

Answer 53

Puritans

Question 54

Date of Boston Tea Party:

Answer 54

1773

Question 55

Final battle of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 55

Yorktown

Question 56

Head of the law-interpreting branch:

Answer 56

Supreme Court

Question 57

General at Bunker HIll:

Answer 57

William Prescott

Question 58

General who captured Quebec:

Answer 58

James Wolfe

Question 59

Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:

Answer 59

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 60

Columbus Discoverd America in:

Answer 60

1492

Question 61

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 61

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

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Mayflower Compact

Question 63

French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:

Answer 63

Jacques Cartier

Question 64

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

Answer 64

Lief Ericson

Question 65

French and Indian War dates:

Answer 65

1754-1763

Question 66

President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:

Answer 66

John Hancock

Question 67

Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:

Answer 67

Samoset and Squanto

Question 68

Name the thirteen original colonies:

Answer 68

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 69

Chief frustration of American colonists:

Answer 69

taxation without representation

Question 70

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

Answer 70

First Continental Congress

Question 71

Head of the Supreme Court:

Answer 71

Chief Justice

Question 72

Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:

Answer 72

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 73

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

Answer 73

Nathan Hale

Question 74

First Continental Congress Date:

Answer 74

September 1774

Question 75

Explorer after whom our continent is named:

Answer 75

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 76

Date of Boston Massacre:

Answer 76

1770

Question 77

"I have not yet begun to fight." What was the occasion?

Answer 77

naval battle with British

Question 78

British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:

Answer 78

Cornwallis

Question 79

Separatists that sailed to the new land:

Answer 79

Pilgrims

Question 80

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

Answer 80

Benedict Arnold

Question 81

European credited with the discovery of America:

Answer 81

Christopher Columbus

Question 82

First battles of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 82

Lexington and Concord

Question 83

Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:

Answer 83

Saratoga

Question 84

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

Answer 84

The House of Burgesses

Question 85

Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:

Answer 85

Second Treaty of Paris

Question 86

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

Answer 86

Patrick Henry

Question 87

Protector of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:

Answer 87

Oliver Cromwell

Question 88

"I have not yet begun to fight." Who said it?

Answer 88

John Paul Jones