Question 1

What term describes the refusal to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest?

Accepted Answer

boycott

Answer

Stamp Act

Answer

vigilantes

Answer

Regulator Movement

Question 2

Who were organizations that protested British taxes, boycotted British products, and held tea parties and spinning bees?

Accepted Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer

British East India Company

Answer

Intolerable Acts

Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 3

What term refers to the coastal region of South Carolina, known for being the first area settled in the state and home to rich plantation owners?

Accepted Answer

Lowcountry

Answer

General Committee of 99

Answer

French and Indian War

Answer

Upcountry

Question 4

What term describes the war fought in the colonies from 1754-1763 between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley area?

Accepted Answer

French and Indian War

Answer

Tea Act

Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer

American Revolution/Revolutionary War

Question 5

What was the name of the Movement were the Backcountry people who took the law into their own hands because they lacked official law enforcement or a court system?

Accepted Answer

Regulator Movement

Answer

Loyalists

Answer

vigilantes

Answer

Circuit Court Act

Question 6

What term refers to people who take the law into their own hands, particularly in the Backcountry region?

Accepted Answer

vigilantes

Answer

Thomas Heyward Jr.

Answer

Loyalists

Answer

Upcountry

Question 7

What law describes the exclusive rights given to the British East India Company to sell tea in the colonies&#44; leading to protests and tea parties by colonists?

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Answer

Lexington and Concord

Answer

First Continental Congress

Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 8

Which important document declared the colonies' independence from England&#44; was written by Thomas Jefferson&#44; and signed by representatives of each colony?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Answer

The Bill of Rights

Answer

The Constitution

Answer

Sugar Act

Question 9

What term refers to the war between American colonies and Great Britain, resulting in the colonies winning their independence?

Accepted Answer

American Revolution/Revolutionary War

Answer

War of 1812

Answer

Lexington and Concord

Answer

French and Indian War

Question 10

What law passed by British Parliament&#44; imposed taxes on items like paint&#44; paper&#44; and tea&#44; leading to colonists' boycotts and protests?

Accepted Answer

Townshend Act

Answer

Intolerable Act

Answer

Stamp Act

Answer

Tea Act

Question 11

Who were the colonists who supported the Continental Congress and the fight for independence from England?

Accepted Answer

Patriots

Answer

Interventionists

Answer

Tories

Answer

Loyalists

Question 12

What term describes the tax imposed on paper as a direct tax, leading to colonial protests in 1765?

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Answer

Tea Act

Answer

Townshend Act

Answer

Paper Act

Question 13

What term describes the circuit court system established by the South Carolina government to provide justice and maintain law and order in response to the Regulator Movement?

Accepted Answer

Circuit Court Act

Answer

General Committee of 99

Answer

French and Indian War

Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 14

Which event involved colonists dumping tea overboard into the harbor as a protest against the Tea Act of 1773?

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Answer

Declaration of Independence

Answer

American Revolution/Revolutionary War

Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Question 15

What was the name of the region of South Carolina who were originally traders and woodsmen before transitioning to small farmers&#44; viewed as 'uncivilized' by the Lowcountry elite?

Accepted Answer

Upcountry

Answer

Loyalists

Answer

Lowcountry

Answer

Circuit Court Act

Question 16

Who represented South Carolina at the First Continental Congress before becoming the second president of it, known for being a wealthy plantation owner?

Accepted Answer

Henry Middleton

Answer

Frances Marion

Answer

Horatio Gates

Answer

Arthur Middleton

Question 17

What term refers to the colonists who remained loyal to the King and England during the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Loyalists

Answer

Stamp Act

Answer

Patriots

Answer

Regulator Movement

Question 18

Which term describes a war fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley area from 1754-1763?

Accepted Answer

French and Indian War

Answer

American Revolution War

Answer

War of 1812

Question 19

Who were the signers from South Carolina of the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Lynch Jr., Thomas Heyward Jr., Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton

Answer

General Committee of 99

Answer

Regulator Movement

Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 20

What term is used to describe the war between the American colonies and Great Britain, ultimately resulting in the colonies winning their independence?

Accepted Answer

American Revolution/Revolutionary War

Answer

Lowcountry

Answer

Upcountry

Answer

Regulator Movement

Question 21

In response to which event were the Intolerable Acts passed, leading to the closure of Boston Harbor as a punitive measure against the colonists?

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Answer

Declaration of Independence

Answer

General Committee of 99

Answer

French and Indian War

Question 22

What term describes organizations that boycotted British products, protested British taxes, and held events like tea parties and spinning bees to support patriot causes during the colonial period?

Accepted Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer

Regulator Movement

Answer

Stamp Act

Answer

British East India Company

Question 23

What term describes the war fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio River Valley area from 1754-1763?

Accepted Answer

French and Indian War

Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer

Intolerable Acts

Answer

Upcountry

Question 24

Company given exclusive rights to sell tea in the colonies

Accepted Answer

British East India Company

Answer

French East India Company

Answer

British West India Company

Answer

French West India Company

Question 25

-Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party-Parliament closed Boston Harbor to punish the colonists-1774

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Act

Answer

Tolerable Act

Answer

Sugar Act

Answer

Tea Act

Question 26

-Representatives from most of the colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss the problems with England-1774

Accepted Answer

First Continental Congress

Answer

Second Continental Congress

Question 27

-Governed the colony instead of the royal governor-Made up of 15 merchants, 15 artisans, and 69 planters

Accepted Answer

General Committee of 99

Answer

General Committee of 89

Answer

General Committee of 69

Answer

General Committee of 79

Question 28

-Representatives from the colonies met again in Philadelphia to discuss the fight for independence and to debate the Declaration of Independence-1775

Accepted Answer

Second Continental Congress

Answer

First Continental Congress

Question 29

-Document declaring the colonies' independence from England-Written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by representatives of each colony-July 4, 1776

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Answer

The Bill of Rights

Answer

Magna Carta

Answer

The Constitution

Question 30

-First battles of the American Revolution-In Massachusetts-April 19, 1775

Accepted Answer

Lexington and Concord

Answer

Charleston and Savannah

Answer

Yorktown and Saratoga

Answer

New York and Boston

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