US History Review

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What was the secret society of English colonists who sometimes used violence to protest against the British taxes and policies?

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Sons of liberty

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What was an act of protest by Massachusetts’s patriots against the Tea Act in which the Sons of Liberty dumped tons of tea into the harbor?

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Boston tea party

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What was the confrontation between British soldiers and a crowd of Boston colonists in which five people were killed; March 5, 1770?

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Boston massacre

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What was issued by King George III to stop English settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains after Britain won the French & Indian War?

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Proclamation Act of 1763

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What battle was the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution? It proved the Colonial forces could hold their own against British forces.

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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Who was the Commander of the Continental Army, later became 1st U.S. President?

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George Washington

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What battle where the first shots of the Civil War fired? Options: Battle of Lookout Mountain, Battle of Shiloh, Fort Sumter, Battle of Gettysburg

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Fort Sumter

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What amendment abolished slavery & involuntary servitude?

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13th amendment

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What amendment guarantees citizenship & equal rights to all people who are a natural born or citizens who become a naturalized in the United States?

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14th amendment

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What was the belief in the U.S. during the 19th-century that we were destined to expand across America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans?

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Manifest destiny