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Question #1
The Townsend Acts were designed to raise revenue that would be used in part to support colonial officials and maintain the British army in America.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #2
On February 6, 1778 the colonies and ___________________ signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce
A.   CANADA
B.   SPAIN
C.   FRANCE
D.   BERLIN
Question #3
According to Outline, the document which circulated throughout the colonies and helped to crystallize a decision for separation was
A.   Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer
B.   The Olive Branch Petition
C.   Common Sense
D.   A Commitment to Correspondence
Question #4
The Coercive, or Intolerable Acts
A.   rallied sister colonies to the aid of Massachusetts.
B.   demanded the First Continental Congress surrender all the delegates from Massachusetts to General Gage in Boston.
C.   encouraged British colonies in Canada to seek a coalition with the 13 American colonies in the face of Parliamentary overreach.
D.   isolated Parliament in its attempts to further reduce losses experienced by the East India Tea Company in the colonies.
Question #5
Many of those who opposed British encroachment on American rights nevertheless favored discussion and compromise as the proper solution.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
According to Outline, the lowest ebb experienced by Washington and the Continental Army during the Revolution was
A.   after they abandoned Long Island, NY
B.   at Valley Forge
C.   at the battles of Trenton and Princeton
D.   when Benedict Arnold became an agent of the British
Question #7
The meeting of colonial representatives in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774 "to consult upon the present unhappy stated of the Colonies" was known as
A.   the First Continental Congress
B.   the Albany/House of Burgess Congress
C.   the Stamp Act Congress
D.   the Sons of Liberty Assembly
Question #8
Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the first engagement between American colonial militia and British troops at Lexington as
A.   "the shot heard round the world"
B.   "no taxation without representation"
C.   "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
D.   "we have met the enemy, and he is ours!"
Question #9
Once the Revolution started, the British expected the greatest resistance to come from those living in the southern colonies.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #10
A committee of five, headed by ______________________ was appointed by Congress in 1776 to draft a document for a vote: the Declaration of Independence.
A.   Benjamin Franklin
B.   Thomas Jefferson
C.   Jon Snow
D.   John Adams

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