A Nation is Born: Prelude to the American Revolution

Question 1

What was the main reason that King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763?

Accepted Answer

To prevent conflict with Native Americans

Question 2

British colonists that supported the decisions of the British government in Colonial America.

Accepted Answer

Loyalists

Question 3

Thomas Paine was selected by congress to write the Declaration of Independence.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

The Patriots never used propaganda to influence colonists to join the fight for independence.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Who famously engraved a British officer ordering his troops to fire on a crowd of Bostonians?

Accepted Answer

Paul Revere

Question 6

What is one of the four distinct sections of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Natural Rights, List of Grievances, Resolution of Independence by the United States, Preamble

Question 7

The American Colonists were upset because their right to vote was taken away!

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the British Colonists from what?

Accepted Answer

Moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 9

According to the text what three actions were taken by the First Continental Congress?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 10

A militia is a group of citizen soldiers.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What did the preamble of the Declaration of Independence explain?

Accepted Answer

Why the colonists wanted to form their own country.

Question 12

In Boston, Samuel Adams helped start an organization called the Sons of Liberty.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

British colonists who fought the policies of the British government in Colonial America.

Accepted Answer

Patriots

Question 14

Writs of Assistance were legal documents that allowed customs to search for smuggled goods.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Many colonists boycotted British goods during the time period before the American Revolution.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What is one task that was accomplished by the Olive Branch Petition accomplish?

Accepted Answer

Asked the king to protect the colonists’ rights., Assured King George III of the colonists’ desire for peace.

Question 17

What name was given, by the Patriots, to the Coercive Acts?

Accepted Answer

The Intolerable Acts

Question 18

Rag figures that represented unpopular people around the time the Revolutionary War.

Accepted Answer

Effigies

Question 19

The Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as what group of people during the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Native Americans

Question 20

Samuel Adams used the Boston Committee of Correspondence to communicate with rebel leaders.

Accepted Answer

True

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