8th Grade history Quarter 1 Test

Tax placed on all printed documents from playing cards to marriage documents

• Stamp Act

• Townshend acts

• Tea Act

• Intolerable acts

Made to replace articles of confederation

• Declaration of Independance

• Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

First battle of the war

• Lexington/Concord

• Saratoga

• Bunker hill

• Boston Massacre

Which is true about the battle at Lexington

• 8 minutemen were killed

• Colonists ran them back to Boston

• 4 redcoats were wounded

• British surrendered

What happened at the Battle of Concord?

• Colonists ran the British back to Boston

• 8 minutemen were killed

• Americans won the war

• Colonits surrendered

What colony had the original name of Plymouth

• Massachusetts bay colony

• New Amsterdam (now known New York)

• Pennsylvania - Named when William Penn took over

• None of the Above

Said even Kings must obey the law

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independance

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights.

Wrote a Pamphlet called common sense

• Thomas Paine

• William Penn

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

Legislative branch - Unicameral (1 house)

Each state gets 1 vote

Presendental Comitee was appointed by Congress (weak)

Judiciary appointed by President

Which applies to the Text above?

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Constitution

• Bicameral (2 houses)

Wrote the Constitution

• Thomas Jefferson

• Ben Franklin

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Adams