History Quiz ReviewMr. Lusk December 2013

Define Patriot

Answer: Americans who wanted to be free of British rule

Define Loyalist

Answer: Americans who support Britain (the King)

The right to be “charged” with a crime

A. WhigsB. Fire BrandC. Habeas CorpusD. Parliament

Believed colonists should govern selves

A. ToriesB. Magna CartaC. WhigsD. Firebrand

Britain’s representative assembly

A. ParliamentB. ToriesC. Magna CartaD. Firebrand

Believed king should control colonies

A. WhigsA. Magna CartaB. ToriesC. Habeas Corpus

Great Charter; empowered more people

A. WhigsA. Magna CartaB. FirebrandC. Habeas Corpus

One that helps to spark a revolution

A. WhigsA. Magna CartaB. ParliamentC. Firebrand

Represented colony of South Carolina

A. John RutledgeA. Charles TownshendB. John AdamsC. Samuel Adams

Wrote Common Sense

Answer: Thomas Paine

Sponsored taxes on tea, lead, glass, etc.

A. Patrick HenryB. John AdamsC. ToriesD. Charles Townshend

Said “Give me liberty or give me death”

Answer: Patrick Henry

Defended soldiers after the “Massacre”

A. Thomas PaineB. Charles TownshendC. John AdamsD. Samuel Adams

Ordered the “Intolerable Acts”

Answer: Lord North

Mad engraving of the “Massacre”

Answer: Paul Revere

Rode with Revere and Dawes

Answer: Dr. Samuel Prescott

Wrote poem about the Midnight Ride

Answer: Henry Longfellow

Wrote – “shot heard around the world”

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eliza Lucas Pinckney is evidence that women in the English colonies in the 1700s

A. Had no right to own propertyB. Could join the militaryC. Could run of an hold political officeD. Could run a large agricultural

business

Why were the American colonists so upset by the Stamp Act?

A. They never had a chance to vote on the tax

B. The tax was too highC. They had to pay more than their

fellow Englishmen in EnglandD. It was the first tax any colonist had

ever had to pay

What was the response of the citizens of Boston to the British tax on tea?

A. They paid it but were unhappy about it.

B. They boarded a British ship and destroyed the tea.

C. They declared war on England.D. They carried out a nonviolent protest.

The Boston Massacre was mainly provoked by?

A. A Boston mobB. King GeorgeC. A British guard at the Custom HouseD. Samuel Adams

Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre went on to become a powerful piece of propaganda because

A. It was used for a cover of a famous book

B. It made people furious at the BritishC. Sam Adams hung the picture in the

Boston CommonD. It showed what really happened

What was the name given to the townspeople and farmers who met the first British advance at Lexington and Concord?

A. Old rough an readiesB. Quick firesC. The lightening brigadeD. minutemen

George Washington call him an “original.” With Benedict Arnold, he captured the British Fort Ticonderoga. He became an American legend. Who was he?

A. Captain John ParkerB. Yankee DoodleC. Isaac DaviesD. Ethan Allen

Ralph Waldo Emerson called the first shot fired in the American Revolution, “The shot head round the world.” What did he mean?

A. The shots were fired in a wide open field

B. The ideas behind the American Revolution would have effects worldwide

C. News people from all over the world were there to report it

D. Everyone participated in the Revolution.

In June 1775, George Washington of Virginia was appointed commander of the Continental Army. What famous American had expected the position but was not chosen?

A. Patrick HenryB. John AdamsC. Thomas JeffersonD. John Hancock

Chapter 18 is called the “The War of the Hills.” What were the hills and what city were they near?

A. Bunker and Breed’s, near BostonB. Berkshire and Blue, near BostonC. Catskill and Berkshire, near New YorkD. Bunker and Black, near New York

Put the following events in order

A. Shots are fired at LexingtonB. Stamp Act puts taxes on all colonial

paper productsC. Proclamation prohibiting colonial

settlements beyond App. Mts.D. Boston MassacreE. French and Indian War is officially

over with Treaty of Paris

Answer: E, C, B, D, A