Question 1

1.  Why did Britain pass the Stamp Act in 1765? Pg 62

Accepted Answer

a) To pay off its debt from the French and Indian War

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b) To encourage trade with the American colonies

Question 2

2.  What group of colonists organized protests in Boston? Pg 63

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a) Sons of Liberty

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b) Daughters of Liberty

Question 3

3.  Why did merchants refuse to buy British goods? Pg 63

Accepted Answer

c) To protest against the Stamp Act

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d) To increase their own profits

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a) To support the British government

Question 4

4.  What did the Townshend Acts do? Pg 65

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a) Placed tariffs on imported goods from Britain

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c) Established new laws for governing the colonies

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d) Repealed the Stamp Act

Question 5

5.  Which tax was not repealed after the repeal of the Townshend Acts? Pg 66

Accepted Answer

d) Tax on tea

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b) Tax on printed materials

Question 6

6.  What event became known as the Boston Massacre? pg 69

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c) The shooting of colonists by British troops in Boston

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b) The Intolerable Acts

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d) The meeting of the First Continental Congress

Question 7

7.  What were the Committees of Correspondence? Pg 70

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a) Groups that sent letters to share news about British actions and colonial protests

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c) Groups that formed militias to fight against British soldiers

Question 8

8.  Why did colonists throw chests of British tea into the water during the Boston Tea Party? Pg 71

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d) They wanted to protest against the tax on tea

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b) They wanted to please the British government

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c) They wanted to celebrate their victory in the American Revolution

Question 9

9.  What did the British pass in response to the Boston Tea Party? Pg 72

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c) The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

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d) The Stamp Act

Question 10

10.  Where did the American Revolution begin? Pg 76

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b) Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill

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c) Virginia

Question 11

11.  Who argued for independence in his pamphlet&#44; Common Sense? Pg 82

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d) Thomas Paine

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c) Benjamin Franklin

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a) Thomas Jefferson

Question 12

12.  What did Congress want to write before holding a vote on independence? Pg 83

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c) A declaration

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d) A treaty

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a) A pamphlet

Question 13

13.  What does the Declaration of Independence state about people's rights? Pg 84

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b) They cannot be taken away.

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a) They can be given and taken away by the government.

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d) They are granted by the king.

Question 14

14. What battle is considered the turning point of the war? Pg 93

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a) Battle of Saratoga

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c) Battle of Long Island

Question 15

15.  What did Patriot women do during the war? Pg 95

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d) All of the above

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c) They worked as nurses and cooks

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a) They worked as spies

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b) They fought in battles

Question 16

16. What were the conditions during the winter at Valley Forge? Pg 100

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d) all of the above

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a) not enough shelters

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c) many soldiers died of disease

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b) not enough food or warm clothes

Question 17

17. Who helped train Continental troops and boost morale at Valley Forge? Pg 101

Accepted Answer

b) Friedrich von Steuben

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d) Benjamin Franklin

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a) Marquis de Lafayette

Question 18

18. Why did Spain begin helping America in 1776? Pg 102

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c) They wanted to recover some of the land that they had lost to the British

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b) They wanted to see Great Britain gain more power

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a) They had always been allies with the French

Question 19

19. Why did General Nathanael Greene's troops attack and then retreat? Pg 102

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a) To wear out the British

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b) To capture Fort Vincennes

Question 20

20. What event led to the British surrender at Yorktown? Pg 103

Accepted Answer

a) The French navy blocking the British navy

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d) The Treaty of Paris

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b) The capture of Fort Vincennes

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