US History Summer School Quiz#8

What was the name of the new King in Great Britian that felt the American colonists should be taxed?

• King Henry

• King George III

• King George

• King James

A loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.

• Sons of the Soil

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of the Confederarcy

The formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts, and was a general term for women who identified themselves as fighting for liberty during the American Revolution.

• Daughters of the Confederarcy

• Sons of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

• Daughters of Liberty

An American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massarce

• Midnight Ride

• Tarring and Feathering

A collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence.

• Skull and Bones

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

The colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution, and declared the United States of America an independent nation in July 1776.

• Neutralists

• American

• Patriot

• Loalists

American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists or King's Men at the time. Those who opposed them and supported the revolution, and called them "persons inimical to the liberties of America."

• Patriot

• Opposition

• Neutralist

• Loyalists

Colonists who were too far away to fight, or embraced the beliefs of both parties. They made up the remaining one third of American colonists during the revolution and did not partake in the battles that their patriot and loyalist brethren often fought.

• Neutralists

• Patriot

• Loyalists

• Tory

The first battle of the American Revolution.

• Battle of Albany

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Manassas

A 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.

• Declaration of Independence

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Common Sense

• Democracy in America