America: Land I Love: Test 2

Who correctly predicted an eclipse in 1789

• Benjamin Banneker

• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Pierre-Simon Laplace

Who was a young Irish, member of Parliament who defended the colonies?

• Edmund Burke
• Winston Churchill
• Oliver Cromwell
• George Washington

Who was the first professional musician and composer born in America?

• John Philip Sousa
• Scott Joplin
• Francis Hopkinson
• William Billings

Who was the British Prime Minister who canceled land grants and raised the taxes in the colonies?

• Winston Churchill
• Margaret Thatcher
• George Grenville
• Tony Blair

Who was the best-known missionary to the Indigenous tribes?

• David Livingstone
• David Brainerd

• Billy Graham
• Saint Patrick

Who was the general of the British army?

• Winston Churchill
• Edward Braddock

• Bernard Montgomery
• George Washington

Who helped introduce the smallpox inoculation?

• Cotton Mather

• Louis Pasteur
• Alexander Fleming
• Robert Koch

Who was the most powerful voice of the Great Awakening?

• Jonathan Edwards
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Whitefield
• John Wesley

The treaty which ended the French and Indian War was the Treaty of Paris of (a)   .

The university that was founded to train Native Americans as missionaries to their own people was (a)   .