How did the Second Continental Congress try to make peace with Britain?

Wrote the Olive Branch Petition

What was the cause of the Boston Massacre?

Argument between a soldier and patriot involving a snowball.

Which of the following was not an Intolerable Act?

Colonists had to enlist in the British Army.

How did the British want to pay the debt from the French and Indian War?

Tax the colonists with the Stamp Act

How did the colonists react to the Stamp Act

They protested and boycotted British goods.

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1
Who designed and drew the "Join or Die" flag?
Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere
King George III
John Adams
2
How did the Second Continental Congress try to make peace with Britain?
Wrote the Olive Branch Petition
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Threatened the King
Offered the king money
3
What was the cause of the Boston Massacre?
A colonist threatened the King.
A soldier killed a colonist.
A colonist killed a soldier.
Argument between a soldier and patriot involving a snowball.
4
Who said, "give me liberty, or give me death"?
Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
5
How did the Daughters of Liberty protest?
Joined the Boston Tea Party.
Held secret meetings and protested in the streets.
Threw trash at the soldiers.
Boycotted British wool.
6
How did colonial leaders get messages to each other?
Express Riders
Pony Express
Shipped them by boat
Sent soldiers
7
What is a tax on imported goods called?
mercantilism
tariff
protectionism
bartering
8
What was the King's punishment for treason?
Become a British soldier
Death by hanging
Life in prison
Become the King's slave
9
What was one of the Second Continental Congress's first acts?
elected a president of the United States
creating a Continental Army
made everyone choose a side
passing new tax laws
10
Which of the following was not an Intolerable Act?
The British blockaded Boston Harbor.
Colonists must "quarter" soldiers.
Massachusetts was under martial law orders.
Colonists had to enlist in the British Army.
11
Which is not an unalienable right?
life
liberty
pursuit of happiness
wealth
12
How did the British want to pay the debt from the French and Indian War?
Tax the colonists with the Stamp Act
Just not pay back the debt
Sell goods around the world
Send every colonist a bill
13
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams
Robert Livingston
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
14
What did the British do after the Stamp Act was repealed?
Left the colonists alone.
Started the Townsend Acts.
Made the colonists join the British Army.
Only taxed tea.
15
How did the colonists react to the Stamp Act
They killed British soldiers.
They spoke to the British King.
They paid the tax without complaining.
They protested and boycotted British goods.
16
Where was the "shot heard around the world" fired?
Boston
Charlestown
Philadelphia
Lexington
17
Who led the Boston Tea Party?
The Sons of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty.
Samuel Adams
Benjamin Franklin
18
What occurred after the Boston Tea Party?
The French and Indian War
The Intolerable Acts
The Townsend Acts
The Stamp Act
19
Where did the Patriots lose to the British because they ran out of ammunition?
Philadelphia
Boston
Concord
Bunker Hill
20
Who warned the militia that the British soldiers were on the move?
Thomas Gage
Paul Revere
John Adams
John Hancock

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