U.S. History Trivia Quiz with Ms. Poveromo

1. U.S History Edition With your host: Ms. Poveromo

3. First Category - 100 • What did the Treaty of Paris of 1763 do? • a. Started the French and Indian War • b. Started the Seven Years War • c. Ended the French and Indian War • d. Ended the American Revolutionary War

4. First Category – 100 c. Ended the French and Indian War

5. First Category - 200 • The French and Huron Tribe and the British/Colonists and Iroquois were the alliances between the combatants in the Seven Years War. • True • False

6. First Category – 200 True

7. First Category - 300 • What caused the French and Indian War? • a. Land, money • b. Land, trade • c. Land, rights • d. Land, religion

8. First Category – 300 b. Land, trade

9. First Category - 400 • What did the French lose to Britain in the Seven Years War? • a. All French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. • b. The British received Quebec and the Ohio Valley. • c. The port of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi were ceded to Spain for their efforts as a British ally. • d. All of the above.

10. First Category – 400 d. All of the above.

11. First Category - 500 What was another name for the French and Indian War? a. Indian War b. Seven Years War c. Eight Years War d. World War

12. First Category – 500 b. Seven Years War

13. Second Category - 100 • A Loyalist is someone who was not loyal to the crown of England. • True • False

14. Second Category – 100 False

15. Second Category - 200 • The _____________ Act allowed British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. • a. Tea • b. Stamp • c. Sugar • d. Quartering CHECK

16. Second Category – 200 d. Quartering

17. Second Category - 300 • What did The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775 start? • a. Civil War • b. American Revolutionary War • c. Seven Years War • d. French and Indian War

18. Second Category – 300 b. American Revolutionary War

19. Second Category - 400 • A Patriot is someone who was not loyal to the crown of England. • True • False

20. Second Category – 400 True

21. Second Category - 500 • Who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, providing tactical leadership while securing vital resources from France? • a. Nathanael Greene • b. Marquis de Lafayette • c. Francis Marion • d. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

22. Second Category – 500 b. Marquis de Lafayette

23. Third Category - 100 The New England Colonies were known for their large plantations. True False

24. Third Category – 100 False

25. Third Category - 200 • According to the Declaration of Independence, where does government get its power? • a. From its Constitution • b. From its military • c. From the elected representatives • d. From the consent of the governed

26. Third Category – 200 d. From the consent of the governed

27. Third Category - 300 • The ________________ is an important American document written mostly by Thomas Jefferson. • a. Declaration of Independence • b. Constitution • c. Treaty of Paris • d. Gettysburg Address

28. Third Category – 300 a. Declaration of Independence

29. Third Category - 400 • What are the four ideals contained the Declaration of Independence?

30. Third Category – 400 1. Equal rights 2. Liberty 3. Abolish or alter the government 4. Consent of the governed

31. Third Category - 500 • How many grievances were listed in the Declaration of Independence? • a. 21 • b. 27 • c. 32 • d. 34

32. Third Category – 500 b. 27

33. Fourth Category - 100 • _______________ work for free or even a small wage for a certain amount of year based on their contract • a. Indentured servants • b. Indentured slaves • c. Slaves • d. Pirates

34. Fourth Category – 100 a. Indentured servants

35. Fourth Category - 200 • The ______________ occurred on March 5, 1770 between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. • a. Boston Tea Party • b. Writs of Assistance • c. Boston Massacre • d. Sugar Act

36. Fourth Category – 200 c. Boston Massacre

37. Fourth Category - 300 • Original documents (excerpts or translations acceptable): Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records are all examples of _________ sources. • a. documented • b. tertiary • c. secondary • d. primary

38. Fourth Category – 300 d. primary

39. Fourth Category - 400 • A textbook is an example of a secondary source. • True • False

40. Fourth Category – 400 True

41. Fourth Category - 500 Name three explorers.

42. Fourth Category – 500 Christopher Columbus, Francisco Coronado, Samuel de Champlain, Robert La Salle, John Cabot, Juan Ponce de Leon, Prince Henry, Vasco da Gama, Hernando Cortez, Jaques Marquette & Louis. Joliet, Martin Frobisher, etc.

43. Fifth Category - 100 Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old, he became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office.

44. Fifth Category – 100 John F. Kennedy

45. Fifth Category - 200 A former slave who was killed by British soldiers during the Boston Massacre of 1770.

46. Fifth Category – 200 Crispus Attucks

47. Fifth Category - 300 In U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of the formal Reconstruction period in 1877 and the beginning of a strong civil rights movement in the 1950s.

48. Fifth Category – 300 Jim Crow laws

49. Fifth Category - 400 On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.

50. Fifth Category – 400 March on Washington