What does hereditary mean?

Holding a position by inheritance (being related to someone)

What describes a Democracy?

Where government power is given to the people.

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

A group of colonist who opposed the British rule.

What is a governing body?

A group of people that controls a group or political entity.

An agreement to stop a war between two countries.

A professional soldier who is hired to serve in a foreign army.

What is a hereditary succession?

Where a ruler is a child or descendent of the previous ruler.

A territory controlled by a larger country far away.

People who supported the British

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1
What is a redcoat?
A British soldier
A colonial resident
Someone who likes the color red
An American soldier
2
What did the Continental Congress do?
Organized the Revolutionary War.
All of the above.
Organized the Continental Army.
Governed the colonies from 1774 to 1789
3
What is Parliament?
Making Particle Paper
Parties to met people
American governement
British Government
4
Which treaty ended the French and Indian War?
The Cornucopia Treaty
The Treats of Pears
The Treaty of Paris
The Apomattox Court House Treaty
5
What does hereditary mean?
Holding a position by inheritance (being related to someone)
Hearing something crazy.
Getting called a nerf herder.
Making something using herbs and spices.
6
What describes a Democracy?
Where the King is in control.
Where a few people control the government.
Where everyone hates voting.
Where government power is given to the people.
7
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Children who were set free to have fun.
A redcoat
A group of colonist who opposed the British rule.
A group of colonist who loved the British.
8
Who were colonial soldiers ready to fight in a minute?
Minute Men
Merry Men
Hour Men
The Music Man
9
What is a governing body?
Someone who gets all 2s for control.
Someone who bosses other people around.
A group of people that controls a group or political entity.
A group of people that meet together to sing.
10
Who were the Hessians?
The French who fought in the American Revolution.
The Continental Congress
British Loyalists
Hired German mercenaries.
11
How did the colonists declare independance from Brittain?
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independance.
Magna Carta
12
What is a treaty?
Trick or Treating.
People taking over other contries.
Playing tic tac toe in class.
An agreement to stop a war between two countries.
13
What is a mercenary?
A professional soldier who is hired to serve in a foreign army.
Someone who sells stuff.
People who love multiplication tables.
People who eat only on occasion.
14
What is a hereditary succession?
Where the ruler is chosen by the people.
Where there is no ruler.
Where the ruler is chosen by a few people.
Where a ruler is a child or descendent of the previous ruler.
15
What is a colony?
A newspaper article.
A retreat for rich people in the Adirondacks.
A new type of social media.
A territory controlled by a larger country far away.
16
When people say "Continental" who or what group are they talking about?
Hessians
British loyalists
The American colonists
The King of England
17
Who were loyalists?
People who supported the Continental Congress.
People who supported the British
People who supported the French
None of the above

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