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Quiz in 11/7
U.S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the British Officer who started the French and Indian War? | George Washington |
| Washinton was a plantation owner from... | Virginia |
| What was the hastily built stockade put up by Washington's Virginia soldiers? | Fort Necessity |
| A 1st attempt (proposed by Benjamin Franklin)to have the colonies work together to make laws, raise taxes, and set up defense of the colonies. | Albany Plan of Union |
| French and Indian war began in .. and ended in .. | Began - 1754 Ended- 1763 |
| Treaty which ended the French and Indian War? | Treaty of Paris |
| 1764 British tax on molasses? | Sugar Act |
| WHat are the series of laws passed in the 1600's that governed trade between England and it colonies? | Navigation Acts |
| What are goods that said colonists could sell only to england? | Enumerated articles |
| What put a tax on legal documents such as will's, or marige papers, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards or dice? | Stamp Act |
| Stamp Act was passed in .. | 1765 |
| British documents that guaranteed the rights to english nobles in 1215? | Magna Carta |
| 1689 Act of Parliament which lists the rights of members of Parliament against the king? | Enlglish Bill of right |
| What is the assembly of delegates from nine different colonies which sent petitions to KIng George II against the stamp act? | Stamp Act Congress |
| What are the cononial actions which brought out the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766? | Boycotting |
| What are the cononial actions which brought out the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766? | Boycotting |
| Passed with the repeal of the Stamp Act, this act stated that Parliament had the right to make laws and raise taxes in all cases whatsoever "in the colonies" | Declatory Act |
| Act which taxed glass, paper, cilk , lead, and tea. | Townshend Act |
| A legal document which let a customs officer inspect a ships cargo without giving any reason for the search. | A writ of assistnace |
| In response to the Townshend Acts, merchants signed ......................., promising to stop importing goods taxed by the Townshend Acts. | Nonimportation Agreements |
| What are the groups during the Stamp Act protests which developed ways to protest the Act. | Sons or Daughters of Liberty |
| The 176 Act which sais that colonishas to pay forhaving British soldiers, | Quartering Acts |
| Violent right which resulted from anger over the Townshend and Quartering Acts | Boston Massacre |
| Considered the first Victim of the American Revolution | Crispus Attucks |
| Groups of colonial activists who wrote lettrs and pamphlets whenever Britain tried to enforce unpopular acts of Parliament. | Comittees if Correspondence |
| Act whcih allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to colonists instead of the Tea Merchants | Tea Act ( 1773) |
| Colonial Reaction to the Tea Act | Boston Tea PArty |
| Series of laws passed in 1774 aimed to force Massachusetts into submission. | Coersive/Intolerable Acts ( 1774) |