Seven Years War, American, and French Revolutions

Question 1

The Estates General was...?

Accepted Answer

A meeting of the 3 Estates

Question 2

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought by which generals?

Accepted Answer

Montcalm, Wolfe

Question 3

The _________ _____________ _________ is sometimes called "The first world war"?

Accepted Answer

The Seven Years War

Question 4

How many Estates made up French Society?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 5

Why is the Storming of the Bastille symbolic?

Accepted Answer

The Bastille represented the power of the King

Question 6

Which document stated that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 7

In the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Britain promised Indigenous Peoples what?

Accepted Answer

Promised Hunting and Fishing Rights, Outlawed private purchase of their land.

Question 8

What set the stage for the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The Proclamation of 1763, The Quebec Act

Question 9

After the Battle of Trenton, many enlisted or re-enlisted in the Continental Army

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The colonists won this battle due to a surprise attack at night on Christmas

Accepted Answer

Battle of Trenton

Question 11

This would be the last major land battle of the American Revolution

Accepted Answer

Battle of Yorktown

Question 12

______was the walled city on a hill that the British snuck up to and forced the French to come out and fight.

Accepted Answer

Quebec

Question 13

Third Estate representatives vowed to keep meeting until they had a constitution.

Accepted Answer

Tennis Court Oath

Question 14

Which Estate had to pay the vast majority of taxes?

Accepted Answer

Third Estate

Question 15

Who led the British army in North America during the Seven Years War?

Accepted Answer

General Wolfe

Question 16

Dec. 31, 1775, the Americans stormed Quebec, but they failed to take the city.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Machine that could efficiently behead a person?

Accepted Answer

Guillotine

Question 18

Washington and the Continental Army confronted the Hessians on what holiday?

Accepted Answer

Christmas

Question 19

The field that the French and the British fought on in 1759 was called"

Accepted Answer

The Plains of Abraham

Question 20

German mercenaries hired by the British to fight in the Revolutionary War were

Accepted Answer

Hessians

Question 21

A secret group formed by colonists in Boston

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 22

General Cornwallis commanded which side?

Accepted Answer

British

Question 23

King of France before the Revolution...

Accepted Answer

Louis XVI

Question 24

Which American General defeated the British in the Seige of Yorktown

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 25

Which Enlightenment philosopher influenced the Declaration of independence?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 26

Colonists dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbour

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 27

What food was SO EXPENSIVE that people rioted?

Accepted Answer

Bread

Question 28

What was the purpose of the British march to Concord?

Accepted Answer

Seize a stockpile of weapons

Question 29

George Washington and the Continental Army crossed what river?

Accepted Answer

The Delaware River

Question 30

What famous (and probably fictitious) quote is often attributed to Marie Antoinette?

Accepted Answer

"Let them eat cake."

Question 31

How long did the Seven Years War last?

Accepted Answer

9 years

Question 32

King George responded to the Olive Branch Petition by declaring the colonists traitors in this proclamation

Accepted Answer

The Proclamation of Rebellion

Question 33

Where did the Battle of Yorktown happen?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 34

In the 1700’s both the French and the English allied themselves with different groups of ______.

Accepted Answer

First Peoples

Question 35

Why did Louis XVI call the Estates General meeting in 1789?

Accepted Answer

France was nearly bankrupt

Question 36

All of the following were causes of the French Revolution EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

The rise of Napoleon

Question 37

General Montgomery and the Continental Army captured Montreal Nov. 13, 1775

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Where did the Battle of Trenton occur?

Accepted Answer

New Jersey

Question 39

What was the Stamp Act

Accepted Answer

A tax on paper documents.

Question 40

The Treaty of Paris 1783 made Great Britain recognize the independence of America

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

________ was a French fort at the mouth of the St. Lawrence that fell to the English.

Accepted Answer

Louisbourg

Question 42

After the Seven years War, the British issued the__________________________ of 1763

Accepted Answer

Proclamation

Question 43

When a group of British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston

Accepted Answer

The Boston Massacre

Question 44

Social and political system in France before the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Ancien Regime

Question 45

Why were French speaking Acadians forced to leave Canada?

Accepted Answer

They wouldn't swear an oath of loyalty

Question 46

Militia Minutemen were ready to take up arms against the British in a matter of ...

Accepted Answer

minutes

Question 47

The Acadians who ended up in Louisiana were called...

Accepted Answer

Cajuns

Question 48

The Nation Assembly did this...

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 49

What agreement ended the Seven Years' War in 1763?

Accepted Answer

The Treaty of Paris

Question 50

The Second Continental Congress delivered this to King George to end the war.

Accepted Answer

The Olive Branch Petition

Question 51

Direct tax that required colonists to pay for official seal on many paper products

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Seven Years War, American, and French Revolutions

Questions 51

Seven Years War, American, and French Revolutions

Questions 51