American Revolution

Question 1

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 2

One of the worst of the Intolerable Acts was the law that stopped business until payment of tea

Accepted Answer

Boston Port Act

Question 3

A person or group that speaks or acts on behalf of another person or group.

Accepted Answer

representation

Question 4

Which is NOT a cause of revolution?

Accepted Answer

Having to pay taxes

Question 5

Primary or secondary?

Accepted Answer

Secondary

Question 6

Primary or secondary: An original musket (gun) used by patriots (colonists) in the revolution

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 7

Colonists reacted to the Townshend Acts of 1767 by...

Accepted Answer

boycotting British goods

Question 8

Primary or secondary: a coloring book for kids showing colonists protesting

Accepted Answer

Secondary

Question 9

Primary or secondary: diary of John Adams, 1773

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 10

A sum of money that people must pay to the government

Accepted Answer

tax

Question 11

Colonists destroyed British Tea in response to the Tea Act

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 12

To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way to protest.

Accepted Answer

boycott

Question 13

Primary or secondary?

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 14

When colonists had to let British soldiers stay in their homes (1765 and again in 1774)

Accepted Answer

Quartering Act

Question 15

Primary or secondary: A really bad Mel Gibson Movie about the revolution

Accepted Answer

Secondary

Question 16

A written statement declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.

Accepted Answer

declaration of independence

Question 17

Which was NOT a major part of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Statement of Independence

Question 18

Primary or secondary: American History Textbook

Accepted Answer

Secondary

Question 19

The overthrow of a government in favor of a new system that is brought on by the people.

Accepted Answer

revolution

Question 20

When 5 colonists were shot by British soldiers leading to the repeal of the Townshend Acts-1770

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 21

The king's orders! No more settling west of the Appalachians!

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 22

This gave a monopoly on tea to the British East India Company and led to the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 23

When the British decided to tax all paper goods in 1765 and the colonists refused to pay

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 24

Primary or secondary: An image printed in 1765 newspapers to protest the Stamp Act

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 25

4 new laws in Boston to punish the colonists for destroying the tea

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 26

Primary or secondary: a Paul Revere engraving showing the British Troops arriving in Boston

Accepted Answer

Primary

American Revolution

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