Colonial America & American Revolution

Question 1

In which colonial region would you NOT find a lot of fishing?

Accepted Answer

Southern

Question 2

How many people died in the Boston Massacre ?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 3

Where did Lord Cornwallis surrender?

Accepted Answer

Yorktown, Virginia

Question 4

What was the turning point of the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Saratoga

Question 5

John Locke believes that people have which natural rights?

Accepted Answer

Life, liberty, and property

Question 6

What book did Ben Franklin write?

Accepted Answer

Poor Richards Almanac

Question 7

What law did King George III pass that made the Colonists stay East of the Appalachian Mtns?

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 8

Who wrote "Common Sense"?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 9

Who fired the first shot at Lexington and Concord?

Accepted Answer

Nobody Knows

Question 10

Large landowners...

Accepted Answer

lived mostly in the south

Question 11

Who inspired the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

European Philosophers

Question 12

Who settled in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Debtors

Question 13

Where did the Puritans settle?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 14

Phillis Wheatley helped fight for

Accepted Answer

American independence

Question 15

The weather in the Southern colonies was

Accepted Answer

hot and humid

Question 16

Who helped gain French support for the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 17

What is the name of the lost colony?

Accepted Answer

Roanoke Island

Question 18

Who was the Commander in chief of the Continental Army?

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 19

What is the nickname for the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

Accepted Answer

The shot heard around the world

Question 20

Indentured servants...

Accepted Answer

worked without pay to earn their freedom

Question 21

Who broke up with King George III?

Accepted Answer

American colonists

Question 22

What does "Interdependence" mean?

Accepted Answer

Two people people who rely on the other for goods

Question 23

In what state did the Quakers settle?

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania

Question 24

What did the Mid-Atlantic Colonies specialize in?

Accepted Answer

livestock, grains, and fish

Question 25

During what year was the Declaration of Independence written?

Accepted Answer

1776

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