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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Enlightenment was...
a time when everything was electrified.
a movement where ideas were based on science and reason instead of religion.
the name of Thomas Edison's factory.
an time of awakening for King George.
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Magna Carta
gave Englishmen basic rights, such as the right to a fair trial.
was an important Spanish document.
was an agreement between English lords and King George.
the colonists' first try at self-governing.
- 3. Multiple Choice
A writ of habeas corpus
allows states the right to form a militia.
lets colonists to refuse to quarter soldiers in their homes.
protects people from being illegally imprisoned.
allows people to be imprisoned without explanation.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Repeal means to
peal again.
enact or enforce a law.
ring more than once.
revoke or cancel.
- 5. Multiple Choice
The Quartering Act
required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
required British soldiers to live in tents on Boston Common.
was a tax that King George issued on paper that the colonists opposed.
was approved by Charles Townshend.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The Sons of Liberty were
killed at the Boston Massacre.
were minutemen who fought at Lexington and Concord.
the original members of the First Continental Congress.
organized by Sam Adams to protest taxes imposed on the colonists by King George.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Loyalists were
colonists who wanted independence from England.
colonists who didn't want independence from England.
colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party.
colonists who were members of committees of correspondence.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Minutemen were
responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
involved in the battles of Lexington and Concord.
known for standing up to the British during the Boston Massacre.
necessary because they could deliver secret messages faster than most mailmen.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Committees of correspondence
later became the Sons of Liberty.
organized the Boston Tea Party.
wrote letters to other colonies to offer help and advice.
published advice columns in local newspapers and encouraged rebellion.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Representatives from every colony but Georgia participated in
the Boston Tea Party.
the Sons of Liberty.
committees of correspondence.
the First Continental Congress.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Patriots were
colonists who did not want independence from England.
colonists who did want independence from England.
colonists who crossed the Appalachian Mountains after the Proclamation of 1763 was issued.
colonists who helped write the Magna Carta.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Militias were
another name for the people that dressed as Indians during the Boston Tea Party.
volunteer armies that were created to help the army during the American Revolution.
colonists that helped the British soldiers keep order in America.
the representatives from the colonies that met at the First Continental Congress.
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Glorious Revolution was important because
it gave more power to Parliament than the king and queen.
it ended the rule of England's kings.
everyone got along.
the colonists won the war and became an independent nation.
- 14. Multiple Choice
During the Enlightenment period,
people stopped thinking for themselves.
religion was the only focus.
colonists gained ideas about self-governing.
a lot of people were confused.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Colonists protested the Stamp Act by
not mailing letters.
not buying English tea.
throwing tea into Boston's harbor.
tarring and feathering British stamp agents.
- 16. Multiple Choice
The Townshend Acts taxed
only tea.
tea, paper, glass, lead, and paint.
gunpowder.
champagne.
- 17. Multiple Choice
After the Townshend Acts were repealed,
the colonists pledged their allegiance to King George
the colonists bought only English tea.
the colonists began exporting more paper.
angry colonists participated in the Boston Tea Party.
- 18. Multiple Choice
As a result of the Boston Tea Party, King George
fired Charles Townshend.
repealed the tax on tea.
arrested the Sons of Liberty.
closed the Boston Harbor.
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