The American Revolution

Question 1

True or false: Georgia attended the First Continental Congress.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

What did the Townshend Acts do?

Accepted Answer

Taxed imports to the colonies

Question 3

Why did Parliament enact the Sugar Act?

Accepted Answer

Cut smuggling

Question 4

What did the Tea Act lift taxes on?

Accepted Answer

British Tea

Question 5

How many British soldiers were killed at Concord?

Accepted Answer

73

Question 6

What did the Quartering Act allow?

Accepted Answer

Housing troops

Question 7

True or false: The Boston Massacre happened in 1770

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Where did the Boston Tea Party occur?

Accepted Answer

Boston Harbor

Question 9

Who was the Prime Minister in 1763?

Accepted Answer

George Grenville

Question 10

Where did the First Continental Congress meet?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 11

What did the Sugar Act aim to reduce?

Accepted Answer

Smuggling

Question 12

Which act stated Parliament's right to tax the colonies?

Accepted Answer

Declaratory Act

Question 13

Who led the Sons of Liberty?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 14

What did Patrick Henry advocate for?

Accepted Answer

Taxation by Virginia assembly

Question 15

Where were arrested colonists tried under the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Vice-admiralty court

Question 16

True or false: The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on the colonies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Who was killed in the Boston Massacre?

Accepted Answer

Crispus Attucks

Question 18

Who encouraged Parliament to punish Massachusetts?

Accepted Answer

King George III

Question 19

What was the main purpose of the First Continental Congress?

Accepted Answer

Support Massachusetts

Question 20

What did the Tea Act do?

Accepted Answer

Lifted tax on British tea

Question 21

Who was the British Prime Minister during the Tea Act?

Accepted Answer

Lord North

Question 22

Which act punished Massachusetts?

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 23

What was the signal event at Lexington known as?

Accepted Answer

The Shot Heard ‘Round the World

Question 24

Where did the first shot of the Revolution occur?

Accepted Answer

Lexington

Question 25

What was the consequence of not paying the stamp tax?

Accepted Answer

Arrest

Question 26

Who was made the new governor of Massachusetts by king George III?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Gage

Question 27

What did colonists call 'taxation without representation'?

Accepted Answer

An unjust tax

Question 28

True or false: George Grenville was King in 1763.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

What was the Boston Massacre?

Accepted Answer

Shooting of colonists

Question 30

Who was General Thomas Gage?

Accepted Answer

Commander of the British forces in North America

Question 31

Who was involved in the Boston Massacre?

Accepted Answer

Colonists and British soldiers

Question 32

True or false: The Boston Massacre resulted in 5 deaths

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

What happened during the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Tea was dumped

Question 34

Where were smuggling cases tried under the new law?

Accepted Answer

Vice-admiralty court

Question 35

Which group was founded by Samuel Adams?

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 36

Where did the Stamp Act Congress meet?

Accepted Answer

New York City

Question 37

What did the First Continental Congress agree to boycott?

Accepted Answer

British goods

Question 38

What was the main purpose of the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Raise money

Question 39

What did the Intolerable Acts close?

Accepted Answer

Boston Harbor

Question 40

What was George Grenville's role in 1763?

Accepted Answer

Prime Minister

Question 41

What role did the Committee of Correspondence play?

Accepted Answer

Spread news

Question 42

What did the committees of correspondence do?

Accepted Answer

Communicated with colonies

Question 43

Who fired the first shot at Lexington?

Accepted Answer

Unknown

Question 44

True or false: The Stamp Act Congress met in Boston

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

Who was outnumbered at Lexington?

Accepted Answer

The colonists

Question 46

Who were the Minutemen?

Accepted Answer

Colonial militia

Question 47

What did the term 'Liberty Trees' refer to?

Accepted Answer

Meeting places for protests

Question 48

What nickname was given to the Massachusetts militia?

Accepted Answer

Minute Men

Question 49

True or false: The Stamp Act was popular in the colonies.

Accepted Answer

False

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