2.6 - Revolutionary Government

The group known as _______ served as the South Carolina government during the American Revolution.

• General Assembly
• Continental Congress
• Committee of 99
• the Continentals

Which group was responsible for raising an army, issuing currency, and enforcing the non-importation acts?

• Sons of Liberty
• Committee of 99
• the Continentals 
• the provincial congress

The purpose of the ____________ was to get the backcountry loyalists to remain neutral during the Revolutionary War.

• non-importation acts
• Treaty of Ninety-Six
• Ordinance of Secession
• Treaty of Paris

The bicameral legislature created by the first constitution means that _____________.

• the legislature is split into two houses
• there are 99 representatives in Congress
• the legislature have very little power
• the national government had more power than the states

Representatives from South Carolina in the provincial congress mainly came from _______.

• the backcountry
• Columbia
• the upcountry
• the lowcountry

Which of the following is an example of the colonists abolishing the royal government?

• signing the Treaty of Ninety-Six
• establishing South Carolina's first state constituion
• fighting against backcountry loyalists
• enforcing the Navigation Acts

The power to veto laws was given to the ________ under the first South Carolina state constitution.

• the Committee of 99
• the lower house
• the upper house
• the president/governor

Those from the _______ would not have supported the provincial congress.

• backcountry
• lowcountry
• Sons of Liberty
• Committee of 99

The first constitution for the national government was known as ______________.

• the Constitution
• the Articles of Confederation
• the Declaration of Independence
• the Treaty of Paris

Who elected the representatives to the lower house under the first state constitution of South Carolina?

• the General Meeting
• the people
• the upper house
• the Committee of 99