eQuizShow

mike and matt group

section 1

Question: This law taxed everyday goods that colonists
Answer: the Townshend acts

Question: what did the stamp act tax
Answer: taxed all paper goods

Question: This act lowered the taxes on molasses
Answer: The Sugar act

Question: This law allowed British soldiers to access homes and search for smuggled goods.
Answer: Writs of assistance

Question: How much did a British pound equal to a shilling
Answer: 20 shillings = a pound

section 2

Question: why did the colonies want to unite
Answer: to split from great Britain

Question: What was the first rebellious act that the colonist did against the British
Answer: The Boston Massacre

Question: This historic event occurred a little while after the Boston Massacre and was a very rebellious act against the British.
Answer: The Boston Tea Party

Question: Colonial leaders used these to influence the colonists opinion about the Boston Massacre
Answer: Propaganda

Question: who was the African american that got killed
Answer: Crispus attucks

section 3

Question: when did Great Britain send troops to Boston
Answer: April 1775

Question: who sold military info to british
Answer: Ethan Allen

Question: Who was the person that Dr. Joseph Warren rushed to alert?
Answer: Paul Revere

Question: when the redcoats reached Boston how many wounded and dead
Answer: 174 wounded and 73 dead

Question: who started the sons of liberty?
Answer: Samuel Adams

section 4

Question: who was
Answer:

Question: who wrote the declaration of independence
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: who signed the declaration of independence first
Answer: John Handcock

Question: How many chests of tea were thrown overboard in the Boston Tea Party
Answer: 342

Question: Who was the commander of the continental army?
Answer: Who is George Washington

vocab

Question: what was the definition for resolution
Answer: a formal expression of opinion

Question: These were little rag dolls made to look like British soldiers which the colonists burned in hatred
Answer: Effigies

Question: ________-refuse to buy goods.
Answer: Boycott

Question: The colonists ______, or canceled the acts
Answer: Repeal

Question: what is the definition of propaganda
Answer: the method of communication that influences the community greatly