1. History Chapter 6 Quiz 1 Review

2. What as the crucial issue behind the War of Independence?
Stamp tax
Tea tax
An idealized view of liberty
Practical self-government

3. Practical self-government

4. What was the main purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
To make laws for the colonies
To supervise and supply militia
To provide news on British threats to liberty
To debate resolutions on colonial rights

5. To provide news on British threats to liberty

6. What sparked the Coercive Acts?
The Gaspee incident
The Boston Massacre
The Committees of Correspondence
The Boston Tea Party

7. The Boston Tea Party

8. What was a major accomplishment of the First Continental Congress?
To appoint a commander in chief
To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves
To petition the king to stop the abuses of Parliament
To raise a Continental army

9. To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves

10. The major reason that the colonists lost the Battle of Bunker Hill was that
The militia fled during the middle of the battle
The American generals made some major blunders
The British outnumbered the Americans almost four to one
The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

11. The American soldiers ran out of ammunition

12. What action did Boston’s Patriots take in 1773 when some British ships refused to take their tea back to England?

13. The Boston Tea Party

14. What term refers to “citizen soldiers” such as the minutemen?

15. militia

16. __ British general whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord
A) Lexington and Concord
B) Patrick Henry
C) Thomas Gage
__ British general whose army occupied Boston and attacked Concord

17. C) Thomas Gage

18. __ Virginian Patriot whose speeches supported the war
A) Lexington and Concord
B) Patrick Henry
C) Thomas Gage
__ Virginian Patriot whose speeches supported the war

19. B) Patrick Henry

20. __ the first engagement of the American Revolution
A) Lexington and Concord
B) Patrick Henry
C) Thomas Gage
__ the first engagement of the American Revolution

21. A) Lexington and Concord