Road to Revolution Test
1. What are some aspects of culture? Way of life, language, customs, clothing, crafts, belief system
2. How can cultural ideas spread? Colonization, foreign travel, military conquest
3. The lowest class in the colonies was made up of slaves and indentured servants.
4. What groups made up the gentry class in the colonies? Church officials, planters, successful merchants
5. The ability to move up or down the social ladder is called social mobility.
6. A craft worker who is skilled in a certain area such as a blacksmith, silversmith, carpenter, or shoemaker is an artisan.
7. English and French traders’ quarrels centered on land in the Ohio River Valley.
8. In the Treaty of Paris, France transferred the Louisiana Territory to Spain.
9. In response to the Townshend Act, the colonists agreed not to import taxed goods
10. What was the Great Awakening? A revived interest in religion in the colonies
11. Who was the colonial statesman who wrote Poor Richard’s Alamanck? Benjamin Franklin
12. What movement stressed science and reason as life guides? Enlightenment
13. What are the accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin? Bifocals, Poor Richard’s Almanac, lightning as a form of electricity
14. What played an important role in increasing political activity and raising public awareness in the colonies? newspapers
15. Colonists agreed not to import taxed items that were taxable by signing Nonimportation agreements
16. What document ended the French and Indian War? Treaty of Paris
17. Who fought with the British in the French and Indian War, and was later made leader of the colonial troops? George Washington
18. What was the Proclamation of 1763? Forbid the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
19. What are the Intolerable Acts? Closing of Boston harbor, new Quartering Act, sent British officials to England for trial
20. This was a protest against the Tea Act. –Boston Tea Party
21. This group dressed up like Indians and dumped over 340 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. Sons of liberty
22. What was the tax put on molasses, sugar, wine, and other items? Sugar Act
23. What act required colonists to pay for room and board of British soldiers? Quartering Act
24. This was the document that allowed British officials to search without a warrant. Writs of assistance
25. After the French and Indian War, which country lost the most land in North America? France
26. The two nations with the largest claims in North America in 1763 were? Spain and England
27. The Boston Tea Party was a response to a law permitting only one company to import tea(Tea Act).
28. Between 1765 and 1771 the main cause of conflict between Great Britain and the colonists was trade and taxes.
29. The Pilgrims came to the New World for this reason. - religion
30. The first form of a representative government formed in the colony of Virginia was the House of Burgesses.
31. A group of people who move from one place, but are ruled by that same country still is called a colony.
32. What countries were involved in the Triangular Trade Route? West Africa, West Indies, New England, and England
33. What colony started the first public school? Massachusetts
34. Town meetings were an early form of democracy.
35. Who helped the Pilgrims learn how to fish, hunt, and plant crops? Squanto
36. Who started the colony of Rhode Island for religious freedom? Roger Williams
37. The woman who believed that women had the same rights as men and that God had spoken to her was Anne Hutchinson.
38. The farmers of the New England colonies were this type of farmer (only growing what they needed). Subsistence farmers
39. The event in England when people rose up and kicked the King out of his throne without firing a single shot. Glorious Revolution
40. What was the Boston Massacre? A deadly riot between the colonies and British troops stationed in Boston
41. How many people died in the Boston Massacre? 5
42. When did the delegates to the Second Continental Congress vote to accept the Declaration of Independence? July 4, 1776
43. You will be analyzing political cartoons, maps, writings, and drawings.