unit 2 history

1. What was the main goal of the Albany Plan?

a. A plan to grow the city of Albany

b. a political cartoon

c. a plan to create a colonial government

d. a plan for the colonies to fight France

c. a plan to create a colonial government

2. Who created the political cartoon? [picture]

a. George Washington

b. General Braddock

c. Ben Franklin

d. Thomas Paine

c. Ben Franklin

3. What was George Washington ordered to do on his first command?

a. Fight Native Americans

b. Fight the British

c. Fight the French

d. Clear the French from western PA

d. Clear the French from western PA

4. What ultimately was the outcome of George Washington’s fight in Ohio?

a. His men killed a French ambassador

b. Was surrounded/surrendered at Ft. Necessity

c. Was sent back to VA embarrassed

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

5. How did William Pitt influence the French and Indian War?

a. He sent Britain’s best generals to the colonies

b. He allowed the French to win

c. He left the colonists to fight on their own

d. Quickly ended the war

a. He sent Britain’s best generals to the colonies

6. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

a. The French were kicked out of North America

b. Native Americans lost land

c. Spain gave Florida to Great Britain

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

7. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 left the British in what condition?

a. Rich from all the new French land (Canada)

b. In major debt from the war

c. With happy, protected colonists

d. Still at war with Native Americans

b. In major debt from the war

8. Native Americans fought on both sides but what was the outcome of the war for them as a whole?

a. With secure areas of land

b. With a significant amount of weapons

c. Divided amongst themselves

d. They continued to lose land to colonists

d. They continued to lose land to colonists

9. What was the point of the Proclamation (Line) of 1763

a. To keep positive relations with Natives

b. To make sure colonists were protected

c. To keep colonists from going west

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

10. How did the colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763?

a. They ignored the Proclamation and settled west of the Appalachian Mountains

b. They obeyed the Proclamation to be protected by the British Army

c. They ignored the Proclamation to search for gold

d. They ignored the Proclamation to continue to fight Native Americans

a. They ignored the Proclamation and settled west of the Appalachian Mountains

1. Which act is NOT one of the Excise Taxes?

a. Stamp Act

b. Sugar Act

c. Quartering Act

d. Molasses Act

d. Molasses Act

2. Which item is NOT included in the Townshend Act?

a. Paint

b. Glass

c. Lead

d. Wood

d. Wood

3. Which of the following items was taxed under the Townshend Act?

a. Tea

b. Glass

c. Paper

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

4. What was the point of the Townshend Act?

a. To help pay for the war

b. To help pay for the cost of governing the colonies

c. To pay for protection

d. To pay for soldiers living in the colonies

b. To help pay for the cost of governing the colonies

5. The act forcing colonists to provide food and shelter to soldiers stationed in towns and villages is called:

a. Stamp Act

b. Sugar Act

c. Quartering Act

d. Townshend Act

c. Quartering Act

6. What was the major banned import from the Sugar Act?

a. Sugar

b. Rum

c. Beer

d. Candy

b. Rum

7. Which act of the Excise taxes came first?

a. Stamp Act

b. Sugar Act

c. Quartering Act

d. Townshend Act

b. Sugar Act

8. What was the point of the Stamp Act?

a. To help pay for the war

b. To help pay for the cost of governing the colonies

c. To pay for protection

d. To pay for soldiers living in the colonies

d. To pay for soldiers living in the colonies

9. What was able to be taxed under the Stamp Act?

a. Newspapers

b. Legal Documents

c. Pamphlets

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

10. Which act of the Excise taxes came last?

a. Stamp Act

b. Sugar Act

c. Quartering Act

d. Townshend Act

d. Townshend Act

1. What was a characteristic of the Sons of Liberty?

a. They were from all over the colonies

b. They chose to write about their issues

c. They used physical violence to protest

d. They went to the tavern to drink it away

c. They used physical violence to protest

2. Who was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre?

a. Samuel Adams

b. Crispus Attucks

c. Paul Revere

d. John Hancock

b. Crispus Attucks

3. What is the significance of the first death of the Boston Massacre?

a. He was a black slave

b. He was the leader of the Sons of Liberty

c. He was an innocent bystander

d. He was a British soldier

a. He was a black slave

4. Describe the Boston Massacre?

a. A peaceful protest turned violent

b. Rowdy colonists antagonizing British soldiers

c. The British storming a bar

d. Colonists dumped British tea into the sea

b. Rowdy colonists antagonizing British soldiers

5. How does the image portray the Boston Massacre?

a. Like the British seem like the vicious aggressors

b. Like the Colonists seem like they were attacked

c. Like a peaceful protest that was interrupted

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

6. Which act directly led to the Boston Tea Party?

a. Quartering Act

b. Tea Act

c. Sugar Act

d. Stamp Act

b. Tea Act

7. Who threatened the British and told them not to unload the tea?

a. Native Americans

b. The governor

c. King George III

d. The colonists

d. The colonists

8. How much tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor?

a. 1000 lbs

b. 90,000 lbs

c. 100,000 lbs

d. 2000 lbs

b. 90,000 lbs

9. How much money did the Boston Tea Party cost the British government in today’s money?

a. $1,000,000

d. $2000

c. $1,700,000

d. $17,000,000

c. $1,700,000

10. After the Boston Tea Party, what acts were put in place to reprimand the New Englanders?

a. Quebec Act

b. Intolerable Acts

c. Unthinkable Acts

d. Hesitation Act

b. Intolerable Acts

1. Which day was the Declaration of Independence passed?

a. July 2nd, 1776

b. June 23, 1776

c. November 3, 1776

d. July 4, 1776

a. July 2nd, 1776

2. Who was the main author on the Declaration of Independence?

a. Thomas Jefferson

b. George Washington

c. John Hancock

d. King George III

a. Thomas Jefferson

3. Which country were the colonies trying to gain independence from?

a. China

b. Ireland

c. Great Britain

d. Canada

c. Great Britain

4. Which author from the enlightenment period helped influence Thomas Jefferson with the idea of natural rights and laws?

a. George Washington

b. John Locke

c. Thomas Hobbes

d. John Adams

b. John Locke

5. What does the term unalienable mean?

a. Cannot be taken away

b. Everlasting

c. Does not exist

d. Can be taken away

a. Cannot be taken away

6. Where does the Government get its power from?

a. God

b. The country

c. Thomas Jefferson

d. The people

d. The people

7. If the government is violating your rights, what do you have the power to do?

a. Fight them

b. Join them

c. Overthrow them

d. Ignore them

c. Overthrow them

8. What is something that the colonists listed as a grievance?

a. Boston Massacre

b. Taxes

c. Quartering troops

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

9. The Declaration of Independence declared that the bond between the colonies and Great Britain was _____?

a. Broken

b. Closer than ever before

c. Weak

d. Just beginning

a. Broken

10. As an independent nation, what power do the colonies now have?

a. Declare war

b. Form alliances

c. Trade with other nations

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

11. Who was the author of the pamphlet, Common Sense?

a. Thomas Paine

b. George Washington

c. Thomas Jefferson

d. Ben Franklin

a. Thomas Paine

12. What was the purpose of Common Sense?

a. To speak to the common people

b. To use simple, common language

c. To be accessible to majority of colonists

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

1. A Patriot is someone who_____?

a. was loyal to England

b. supported revolution against England

c. Someone who is a soldier

d. A colonist

b. supported revolution against England

2. Who is someone who opposed revolution and pledged loyalty to the king?

a. Loyalist

b. Patriot

c. Soldier

d. Farmer

a. Loyalist

3. Many loyalists were located in which region?

a. Middle Atlantic

b. South

c. New England

d. There were no loyalists

b. South

4. Who famously said “Give me liberty or give me death!” ?

a. George Washington

b. Thomas Paine

c. Thomas Jefferson

d. Patrick Henry

d. Patrick Henry

5. In what major way did Marquis de Lafayette help the colonists?

a. Got French troops to help the colonists

b. Canceled the taxes

c. was a spy for the British

d. Got help from Natives

a. Got French troops to help the colonists

6. Was John Paul Jones a Patriot or a Loyalist?

a. Loyalist

b. Patriot

c. British Naval Officer

d. Neither side

b. Patriot

7. Which is true about Benedict Arnold?

a. He fled after plans were discovered

b. He had plans to betray the colonists

c. He was in debt

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

8. Could someone be neutral or moderate towards the war?

a. No, all colonists were patriots

b. No, all colonists were loyalists

c. Yes, many were neutral

d. Yes, but only those in different countries

c. Yes, many were neutral

9. In what ways were the British more prepared for the war?

a. Better trained

b. Have better firearms

c. Are Homesick

d. The war is in their own country

a. Better trained

10. What sort of things could the British Navy do?

a. Protected coasts

b. Ran supply lines

c. Performed Blockades

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

11. What two groups supported the British against the colonists?

a. Loyalists and Patriots

b. Native Americans and Slaves

c. Tax Collectors and Sons of Liberty

d. Loyalists and Native Americans

c. Tax Collectors and Sons of Liberty

12. Which is not an advantage for the Patriots?

a. They are fighting in their home country

b. Their muskets have better range

c. They have a better navy

d. Experience from French and Indian war

c. They have a better navy

13. How were the British smoothbore muskets different from the firearms the patriots had?

a. They took longer to load

b. They had better range

c. They were more accurate

d. They were made in China

a. They took longer to load

14. Which is a disadvantage of the Patriots?

a. Had a surplus in supply for war

b. Too many soldiers

c. Used Smoothbore Muskets

d. They lacked discipline

d. They lacked discipline

15. Why did many men flee from the Continental army?

a. They lacked discipline

b. There were shortages of food/supply

c. Loyalists made up part of population

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

16. Did loyalists fight with the Continental army?

a. No, only Native Americans

b. Yes, with the Native Americans

c. No, they fought with the British

d. Yes, they wanted independence

c. No, they fought with the British

17. How did the battle of New York end?

a. Americans had 1,400 casualties

b. Washington retreated to PA

c. British failed to end war right then

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

18. What was important about the battle of New York?

a. Showed British strength & American weakness

b. Ended the war

c. Washington surrendered

d. First battle won by Patriots

b. Ended the war

19. Which battle did Washington sail across the Delaware River?

a. Battle of New York

b. Battle of Yorktown

c. Battle of Trenton

d. Battle of Saratoga

c. Battle of Trenton

20. Which battle was the turning point of the war?

a. Trenton

b. Saratoga

c. New York

d. Pennsylvania

b. Saratoga

21. Which two countries came to help the Patriots?

a. Spain and Canada

b. Great Britain and Mexico

c. France and Spain

d. Germany and Italy

c. France and Spain

22. Why did the British move to Yorktown?

a. To leave

b. To get support from their navy

c. To pick up more soldiers

d. To trade off their supplies

b. To get support from their navy

23. Which two groups surrounded the British in Yorktown?

a. French and German

b. Patriots and British

c. Patriots and French

d. Loyalists and Natives

c. Patriots and French

24. Which British General surrendered to Washington on October 19, 1781?

a. General Howe

b. General Cornwallis

c. General Burgoyne

d. General Leger

b. General Cornwallis

25. Which treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War?

a. Treaty of Paris

b. Treaty of Versailles

c. Treaty of London

d. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

a. Treaty of Paris

1. What happened to the Articles of Confederation?

a. They were successful

b. They failed and were replaced by the Constitution

c. They were amended

d. They were lost

b. They failed and were replaced by the Constitution

2. How many states sent delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

a. 55

b. 17

c. 13

d. 12

d. 12

3. What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

a. To amend the Articles of Confederation

b. To throw away the Constitution

c. To write the Constitution

d. To add the Bill of Rights

a. To amend the Articles of Confederation

4. What kind of representation did the smaller states want?

a. Population based representation

b. Bicameral Legislature

c. Equal representation

d. No representation

c. Equal representation

5. What did the larger states want to base representation off of?

a. Unicameral Legislature

b. Population

c. Equal representation

d. How much taxes each state pays

b. Population

6. Who wrote and proposed the Virginia Plan?

a. Thomas Jefferson

b. John Adams

c. Alexander Hamilton

d. James Madison

d. James Madison

7. What is something that made the Virginia Plan significant?

a. Bicameral Legislature/Strong National Government

b. Included 3 branches of government

c. Set an agenda for the Convention

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

8. What type of legislature did the New Jersey Plan include?

a. Bicameral

b. A mix of both

c. Unicameral

d. Neither

c. Unicameral

9. What compromise made both groups of the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan happy?

a. The Amazing Compromise

b. The Great Compromise

c. The Pennsylvania Compromise

d. The Cool Compromise

b. The Great Compromise

10. What is the 3/5 Compromise?

a. 3 slaves = 5 free people for taxes & representation

b. 5 Slaves = 3 free people for Taxes & Representation

c. Slaves only count for Taxation

d. Slaves don’t count

b. 5 Slaves = 3 free people for Taxes & Representation

1. Who supported the ratification of the Constitution?

a. Anti-Federalists

b. Democratic-Republicans

c. Federalists

d. Loyalists

c. Federalists

2. What type of government did the Federalists support?

a. Weak national

b. Strong national

c. A monarchy

d. Strong local

b. Strong national

3. What was the name of the series of essays that defended the ratification of the Constitution?

a. The Federalists Papers

b. Ratification Center

c. The Anti-Federalist Agenda

d. Signatures Galore

a. The Federalists Papers

4. Who is not a key federalist?

a. Alexander Hamilton

b. John Jay

c. John Adams

d. Thomas Jefferson

d. Thomas Jefferson

5. What did the Anti-Federalists not support?

a. States rights

b. Strong national government

c. Bill of rights

d. Legislative power

b. Strong national government

6. Which of the following is an Anti-Federalist?

a. John Jay

b. Patrick Henry

c. Alexander Hamilton

d. John Adams

b. Patrick Henry

7. Who supported the Federalists?

a. Bankers

b. Farmers

c. Frontier settlers

d. Artisans

a. Bankers

8. Which branch of the government did the Anti-Federalists believe should have the most power?

a. Executive

b. Judicial

c. Legislative

d. None of the above

d. None of the above

9. What were the Anti-Federalists eventually called when they formed into their own political party?

a. Democrats

b. Democratic- Republicans

c. Friends of Jefferson

d. They never changed their name

b. Democratic- Republicans

10. How did George Washington feel about political parties?

a. Loved them

b. Thought they were helpful

c. Warned Americans about them

d. Helped form intellectual thoughts

c. Warned Americans about them