Acts Quiz

Question 1

What committee did Samuel Adams create to increase communication between the colonies?

Accepted Answer

Committee of Correspondence

Question 2

Patriots were people who were for independence in the colonies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What did the colonists dress up as in the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Indians

Question 4

What war led to the Proclamation of 1763?

Accepted Answer

The French and Indian War

Question 5

What act banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Accepted Answer

The Proclamation of 1763

Question 6

The Triangular Trade was known as

Accepted Answer

A trade route between North America, Caribbean, Africa, and Europe

Question 7

Which act required colonists to pay a tax when they bought newspapers, licenses, and paper?

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 8

What slogan expressed why colonists were upset by the taxes imposed on them?

Accepted Answer

No taxation without representation

Question 9

Why did the British feel they had to tax the colonies?

Accepted Answer

The had to pay off war debt

Question 10

The New England colonies were most known for exporting which resources?

Accepted Answer

Timber and fur

Question 11

Which colony is a Southern colony?

Accepted Answer

North Carolina

Question 12

To house soldiers in a civilian household means to

Accepted Answer

Quarter

Question 13

What act established a monopoly for the East India Company?

Accepted Answer

The Tea Act

Question 14

Which event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd of colonists?

Accepted Answer

The Boston Massacre

Question 15

Loyalists were people who sided with the British and the King

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What were the colonists protesting through the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 17

What were some of the results of the Intolerable Acts?

Accepted Answer

Closing the harbor & appointed Gage as Governor

Question 18

Which colony is not a middle colony?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 19

Which act made the colonists have to provide the British soldiers with housing and food?

Accepted Answer

The Quartering Act

Question 20

Tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton are known as

Accepted Answer

Cash Crops

Question 21

What act was passed because of the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

The Intolerable Acts

Question 22

Which act taxed molasses and sugar?

Accepted Answer

The Sugar Act

Question 23

At which meeting did delegates vote to ban all trade with Britain?

Accepted Answer

First Continental Congress

Question 24

The Declaration of Independence was signed/adopted

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776

Question 25

The Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty were created in order to...

Accepted Answer

To protest British policies, Spread information about British abuses towards colonists, To organize boycotts of British goods

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