History Quiz

Those who wanted America to be free from Britain's control

• Liberty Bell

• Patriot

• Second Continental Congress

Money people pay to the government for use in running the government

• Tax

• Minutemen

• Bonhomme Richard

met in Philadelphia in 1775; decided America must have an organized Continental Army and that George Washington would command the new army

• Minutemen

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

Rung in Philadelphia to gather the people together for the reading of the Declaration of Independence

• Hessians

• Liberty Bell

• Bonhomme Richard

German soldiers hired by George III to fight against Americans

• Bonhomme Richard

• Civil government

• Hessians

Held in Philadelphia in 1787; new form of government having three branches was decided upon

• 3 branches of U.S. government

• Constitutional republic

• Constitutional Convention

Legislative, executive, judicial

• 3 branches of U.S. government

• Constitutional republic

• Supreme Court

Required documents purchased by the colonists to have special stamps affixed to them, proving a tax had been paid

• Stamp Act

• Supreme Court

• Declaration of Independence

Extended the boundaries of Quebec west to the Mississippi and south to the Ohio River, closing frontier land to the colonists

• Quebec Act

• Treaty of Paris

• Articles of Confederation

The plan of goverment our country still follows today

• Constitution of the U.S.

• Bill of Rights

• First Amendment