American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown were known as _____________.
Whigs
Republicans
Democrats
Torie
The ______________of 1767 placed taxes on various goods like paper, tea, and lead, and were enacted by the British Parliament without any input from American representatives.
Reprehensible Acts
Townshend Acts
Intolerable Acts
Sugar Act
The ____________ was meant to protect the lands of Native Americans, and was viewed by American colonists as arbitrarily limiting their ability to move west.
Townshend Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Declaration of Independence
Sugar Act
The document that announced American independence and the reasons for it, the Declaration of Independence, was mostly written by ______________.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington
The most famous sentence in the Declaration of Independence lays out the _____________of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness and the concept of equality of all before the law.
constitutional rights
unalienable rights
alienable rights
indivisible rights
The ______________, the first true set-piece battle of the American Revolution, while nominally an American defeat, had two disastrous effects on the British: it caused massive casualties amongst the British soldiers, proving that American colonists could be dangerous opponents, and it inspired the Second Continental Congress to begin to take action on independence.
Battle of Boston
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Lexington
As a result of the French and Indian War, France lost to Great Britain its territories in Canada and lands east of the Mississippi River, while France’s ally Spain lost the land of ______________.
France
Canada
Virginia
Florida
_______________were formed as informal groups of “pen-pals” to allow protesting American colonists to communicate their complaints and ideas across the vastness of the Thirteen Colonies.
Continental Congresses
Sons of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
Terrorists
The main impact of the French and Indian War on American colonists was the______________ the victory cost.
economic burden of debt
military burden of prisoners
military burden of material
political burden of new lands
The American colonies declared independence from Great Britain during a vote taken
on _________________
July 4, 1776
January 1, 1787
July 2, 1776
December 7, 1941
One driving motivator of the coming American Revolution was “____________________”, the passage of legislation by the British without any representation in the British government by American colonists.
taxation without representation
religious freedom
reconciliation
authoritarianism
________________was a scientist, printer, author, inventor, and diplomat from the American colonies that served as an unofficial ambassador to the British court.
George Washington
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine authored a pamphlet, ______________, which articulated the issues leading up to the American Revolution and the case for declaring independence for Great Britain, allowing American colonists, for the first time, to see all those issues and reasons in one document that could be easily understood by colonists with any education.
Wealth of Nations
Common Sense
Two Treatises on Government
Declaration of Independence
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at the village of _____________, where minute-men, or colonial militia, were ready to face a force of British regulars who had been sent to seize men, arms, and gunpowder from the Sons of Liberty.
Concord
Boston
Lexington
Philadelphia
______________was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to take command of the combined forces of rebelling colonists, the Continental Army.
Horatio Gates
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
The conflict between France and Great Britain in the New World arose over control of the abundant raw materials in the ____________
Ohio River Valley
Southern Colonies
Port of Boston
Mississippi River Basin
Alarmed by the building of a French fort in the Ohio River Valley, Fort Duquesne, the British sent a young Virginian, ____________, to treat with the French.
George Washington
Thomas Gage
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
The ________________ erupted after the killing of a French official by troops led by George Washington, who was promptly forced to surrender after surrounded at Fort Necessity.
Napoleonic Wars
Revolutionary War
American Revolution
French and Indian War
5.27 pts
Victory at the ______________, coming during the Christmas holidays in 1776 after a year of dismal American defeats, gave the Continental Army a needed morale boost.
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Saratoga
A,C,D,C,D,B,D,A,A,B,D,C,A,B,D,D,C,A,B?
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Please post no more than five numbered questions along with answers.
A,C,B,C,B,C,C,B,A,A,C,B,A,B,C,D,A,C,B
To answer the questions, you can follow these steps:
1. For the first question, the American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown were known as Tories.
2. For the second question, the taxes on various goods like paper, tea, and lead that were enacted by the British Parliament without any input from American representatives are known as the Townshend Acts.
3. For the third question, the document that was meant to protect the lands of Native Americans and viewed by American colonists as arbitrarily limiting their ability to move west is the Proclamation of 1763.
4. For the fourth question, the Declaration of Independence was mostly written by Thomas Jefferson.
5. For the fifth question, the most famous sentence in the Declaration of Independence lays out the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness and the concept of equality of all before the law.
6. For the sixth question, the first true set-piece battle of the American Revolution that had two disastrous effects on the British is the Battle of Bunker Hill.
7. For the seventh question, as a result of the French and Indian War, France's ally Spain lost the land of Florida.
8. For the eighth question, the informal groups of "pen-pals" that were formed to allow protesting American colonists to communicate their complaints and ideas were the Committees of Correspondence.
9. For the ninth question, the main impact of the French and Indian War on American colonists was the economic burden of debt caused by the victory.
10. For the tenth question, the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain during a vote taken on July 2, 1776.
11. For the eleventh question, one driving motivator of the coming American Revolution was "taxation without representation."
12. For the twelfth question, Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, printer, author, inventor, and diplomat from the American colonies who served as an unofficial ambassador to the British court.
13. For the thirteenth question, Thomas Paine authored a pamphlet called "Common Sense" which articulated the issues leading up to the American Revolution and the case for declaring independence from Great Britain.
14. For the fourteenth question, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at the village of Lexington.
15. For the fifteenth question, George Washington was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to take command of the combined forces of rebelling colonists, the Continental Army.
16. For the sixteenth question, the conflict between France and Great Britain in the New World arose over control of the abundant raw materials in the Ohio River Valley.
17. For the seventeenth question, George Washington was sent to treat with the French when the British became alarmed by the building of a French fort in the Ohio River Valley, Fort Duquesne.
18. For the eighteenth question, the French and Indian War erupted after the killing of a French official by troops led by George Washington.
19. For the nineteenth question, the victory at the Battle of Trenton, coming during the Christmas holidays in 1776, gave the Continental Army a needed morale boost.
Based on these steps, the correct answers are:
A - Torie
C - Townshend Acts
D - Proclamation of 1763
C - Thomas Jefferson
D - unalienable rights
B - Battle of Bunker Hill
D - Florida
C - Committees of Correspondence
A - economic burden of debt
A - July 2, 1776
B - taxation without representation
C - Benjamin Franklin
A - Common Sense
C - Lexington
B - George Washington
A - Ohio River Valley
A - George Washington
D - French and Indian War
C - Battle of Trenton