2nd Quarter Exam-8th Grade Question Preview (ID: 60686)


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This placed a tax on local tea to encourage the purchase of British tea?
a) tea act
b) sugar act
c) stamp act
d)

This act was repealed in March of 1766 because of protests.
a) quartering act
b) sugar act
c) stamp act
d)

These acts were passed as punishment for the dumping of the tea into the harbor.
a) Coercive Acts
b) Townshend Acts
c) Sugar act
d)

Boston Patriots dressed as Native Americans boarded a British ship and dumped tea into the harbor.
a) Boston Tea Party
b) Boston Massacre
c) French and Indian War
d)

Colonists had to provide food and shelter for soldiers.
a) sugar act
b) quartering act
c) stamp act
d)

This act put a tax on tea, glass, and paper.
a) sugar act
b) stamp act
c) townshend act
d)

A crowd of colonists harassed British guards in Boston and 5 colonists were shot.
a) Boston Tea Party
b) Boston Massacre
c) Stamp act
d)

How did Parliament react to the Boston Tea Party?
a) Parliament sent food
b) Parliament held meetings
c) Parliament passed Intolerables
d)

A tax on sugar or molasses.
a) sugar act
b) stamp act
c) townshend act
d)

What protest group led the Boston Tea Party?
a) Sons of Liberty
b) Daughters of Liberty
c) Native Americans
d)

Who wrote a pamphlet calling for a break from British rule?
a) Crispus Attucks
b) Thomas Paine
c) John Hancock
d)

Who was a victim of the Boston Massacre?
a) Samuel Adams
b) Thomas Paine
c) Crispus Attucks
d)

Which battle of the American Revolution is considered the turning point battle?
a) Lexington
b) Saratoga
c) Yorktown
d)

Who was the volunteer from France who became Washington’s trusted aide and friend?
a) Marquis de Lafayette
b) Francis Marion
c) Benjamin Franklin
d)

Where did the Patriot forces endure a winter of terrible suffering?
a) Saratoga
b) Valley Forge
c) Lexington
d)

Who was president of the Second Continental Congress and first to sign the Declaration of Independence?
a) John Hancock
b) George Washington
c) Ben Franklin
d)

What war was responsible for the accumulation of debt for England?
a) Revolution
b) WWI
c) French and Indian
d)

“ The shot heard around the world”, refers to what battle?
a) Yorktown
b) Saratoga
c) Lexington
d)

What did the Proclamation of 1763 call for?
a) Stopped trade with French
b) colonists could not move west across mountains
c) a war
d)

.What document marked the end of France as a power in North America by ending the French and Indian War?
a) Treaty of Ohio River Valley
b) Treaty of Paris
c) Adams-Onis Treaty
d)

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