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Chapter 3: "The Fight Begins" Quick Quiz
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Question 1
1.
What did the British government do in response to the Boston Tea Party?
regulate meetings and select the colonists who could have important jobs
make new rules for trials and force colonists to house British soldiers
close Boston Harbor and make the colonists pay for the lost tea
all of the above
Question 2
2.
What did the colonists call all of the new laws made in response to the Boston Tea Party?
the Insufferable Acts
the Intolerable Acts
the Impossible Acts
the Insupportable Acts
Question 3
3.
What did people in Massachusetts begin to do?
stockpile weapons and prepare to fight
relocated to Virginia to escape the new laws
draft letters of apology to King George
stock lots of tea in their homes
Question 4
4.
Which patriot eventually had his name top the list of signatures on the Declaration of Independence?
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Crispus Attucks
Question 5
5.
How did Paul Revere know the way the British were traveling to Concord?
his friend released birds into the sky
his friend sent a letter in the mail
his friend hung lanterns in a church
his friend built a fire in the woods
Question 6
6.
Which colony did not send represetatives to the First Continental Congress because the colonists there believed they had prospered under royal rule?
New York
Virginia
Georgia
Massachusetts
Question 7
7.
Who fired the first shot in Lexington?
the British
nobody knows
the British and the militiamen fired at the first time
the militiamen
Question 8
8.
What did the colonists agree to do during the First Continental Congress?
apologize to Great Britain
immediately gather an army and go to war
stop importing and exporting British goods
mix all of the colonies together to form one colony
Question 9
9.
What did the militiamen do as the British commander marched his soldiers back to Boston?
Question 10
10.
Describe what Patrick Henry said at the First Continental Congress.