Revolutionary War Test

Question 0

This act required colonists to provide housing and food and other necessities to British soldiers

Answer 0

Quartering act

Question 1

This act taxed all paper products from letters to playing cards

Answer 1

Stamp act

Question 2

This accident or cold murder resulted in five colonists dead

Answer 2

Boston massacre

Question 3

This series of acts included an order that Britain took over the Massachusetts government and that Britain controlled all town meetings and more troops had to go over to the colonies to enforce British laws.

Answer 3

Intolerable acts

Question 4

This event lost 90,000 pounds of tea.

Answer 4

Boston tea party

Question 5

This act was a tax on paint, glass, paper, and tea

Answer 5

Town shed act

Question 6

Group of Indians that sided with the French for the French and Indian war

Answer 6

Huron

Question 7

This tribe helped the English In the French and Indian war

Answer 7

Iroquois

Question 8

What is a fence sitter

Answer 8

A person who either, doesn’t agree with either side or agrees with both.

Question 9

Why did the British tax colonists after the French and Indian war

Answer 9

They owed a lot of money in the debt

Question 10

What is the proclamation of 1763

Answer 10

It says that colonists can’t settle west of the Appalachian mountains to keep peace with the Indian tribes.

Question 11

Why were the colonists upset about the proclamation of 1763

Answer 11

Because they needed more room for the people crossing to the colonies.

Question 12

What percent was patriot

Answer 12

40%

Question 13

What percent was loyalist

Answer 13

20%

Question 14

What percent was a fence sitter

Answer 14

40%

Question 15

What did the colonists feel about breaking apart from Britain and why

Answer 15

They didn’t want to break apart because Britain was a big nation and they could be ally’s

Question 16

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

Answer 16

Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

What percent of the colonies needed to vote yes for freedom

Answer 17

All

Question 18

When was the Declaration of Independence ratified

Answer 18

July 2nd 1776

Question 19

How many days did it take to get everyone to sign

Answer 19

2 days

Question 20

When was the first Independence Day

Answer 20

July 4 1776

Question 21

Who wrote common sense

Answer 21

Thomas Paine

Question 22

What did Thomas Paine write

Answer 22

Common sense

Question 23

What colony did Richard lee represent

Answer 23

Massachusetts

Question 24

What did Samuel Adams lead.

Answer 24

Sons of liberty

Question 25

What did Benjamin franklin do

Answer 25

He sealed the deal with France.

Question 26

Who led the Boston tea party

Answer 26

Sons of liberty

Question 27

Stamp act

Answer 27

All paper products

Question 28

Year of the townshed act

Answer 28

1767

Question 29

Boston tea party year

Answer 29

1773

Question 30

Intolerable acts year

Answer 30

1774

Question 31

First continental congress year

Answer 31

1774

Question 32

What did they agree on at the first continental congress

Answer 32

: train and arm a militia : boycott Britain : intolerable acts are illegal violations of people's rights : Patrick Henry's unity quote they are now Americans

Question 33

Olive branch petition date

Answer 33

July 5th 1775

Question 34

What and why was the olive branch petition

Answer 34

They sent it to king George 3 to try and become friends with Britain.

Question 35

What did king George do to the olive branch petition

Answer 35

He ignored it

Question 36

Second coninental congress date

Answer 36

June 1775

Question 37

How many people showed up to the second continental congress

Answer 37

56 delegates no Georgia

Question 38

What year was common sense written

Answer 38

1776

Question 39

What is common sense

Answer 39

A pamphlet filled with punchy lines to win the colonists over to freedom

Question 40

What specific rights did the Declaration of Independence contain

Answer 40

People are born with certain rights King George 3 has taken these rights away from us So we are forming our own country

Question 41

What part did South Carolina make Thomas Jefferson remove

Answer 41

Slavery

Question 42

What date was the Declaration of Independence ratified

Answer 42

July 2nd 1776

Question 43

What dates was the Declaration of Independence signed

Answer 43

July fourth to August second 1776

Question 44

Paul revere

Answer 44

Midnight ride with the British are coming | The regulars are out

Question 45

Charles Cornwallis

Answer 45

A British General who lost Yorktown

Question 46

John Burgoyne

Answer 46

A British General who lost Saratoga

Question 47

William Howe

Answer 47

Highest ranked British General who took over Pennsylvania

Question 48

John Adams

Answer 48

Leader of the independence act

Question 49

What are inalienable rights

Answer 49

Everyone is born with certain rights. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Question 50

What is treason? Why were some of the rebels guilty of this?

Answer 50

Treason is when you are plotting against ones government. The rebels were guilty of this when they

Question 51

When and why did the first continental congress meet.

Answer 51

October 1774 | They were there to discuss the intolerable acts.

Question 52

When and why did the second continental congress meet.

Answer 52

May 1775 | They met to decide the leader of the continental army and the Declaration of Independence

Question 53

Why was the battle of Trenton significant

Answer 53

It was a major turning point in the revolutionary war | The patriots surprisingly beat the British

Question 54

Why was the battle of Saratoga significant

Answer 54

October 1777 | A turning point in the war and the rebels won

Question 55

Describe Burgoynes strategy to capture New York

Answer 55

He had spent the last few months working out a detailed plan for winning the war. Slice America in two. This would be done by attacking the centrally located state of north from the north and south at the same time.

Question 56

What did William Prescott mean when he said don't fire until, you see the whites of their eyes.

Answer 56

He meant that don't fire until you are close enough to them to see the whites of their eyes. He said this because they did not have much gunpowder and the guns didn't have an accurate aim from far away and they didn't want to waste. So when they could see the whites of their eyes then they could fire.

Question 57

How did Nathaniel Green and swamp fox play a role in the patriot victory.

Answer 57

They slowed down the British troops because they made tiny attack against them to slow them down