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John Adams Quiz

reposted from 2014

John Adams 

Quiz:  The Reluctant Patriot Book  by Leonard Falkner

1. How many siblings did John Adams have? Two brothers  P. 10
2. What did John Adams father do for a living? Farming  P.  8
3. What religion was John Adams?  Puritan   P 9
4. As eldest son John was expected to be what? Educated and take over the estate  P. 11
5. Which language became John Adam’s favorite as a youth?  Latin  P 15
6. What did this phrase mean that so charmed him that he chanted it aloud?   Veni Vidi Vici?   I came, I saw, I conquered.  P15
7. What school did John join when he was almost 16?  Harvard  P. 16     To become? A theologian, (Pastor)  P. 18
8. The food was so bad that the boys in his room decided to do what?  Get their own food by killing the neighbors chickens.  P 20
9. Did John lie about what the boys had done? No he wouldn’t tell a lie. P 21
10. What did John become directly after college?  A teacher  P 23
11. Since he hated that, what did he study for next?  Law  P 25
12. His father dies, he practices law, and met who to marry?   Abigail  Smith, his third cousin  P 53
13. What was John Adams during the stamp act?  An opponent, he delivered a speech opposing it. Pg 56
14. With which president did  John Adams serve as Vice-President? Washington  P 126
15. John Adams was which number President of the United States?  Second President -  P. 131
16. John Adams lost his election for a second term.  Who did he lose to?  Thomas Jefferson
17. How many years did John Adams live after he left politics and the public life?   Twenty Five P. 143
18. Which of John Adams sons became President?  John Quincy Adams P 140
19. What were his last words.  Jefferson survives.  P. 140

Thirteen Colony Quiz

Early Colonies – Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and 13 British Colonies

 Quiz Questions  Apr 30, 2014

1. What three groups were the early colonies grouped into?  New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies. 
2. Who settled the New England colonies, traders, the French, slaves, Puritans?     Puritans
3. Name the 4 New England Colonies?   Connecticut, Massachusetts, , New Hampshire, Rhode Island
4. Which group of colonies was characterized by religious zeal, strong work ethic, and a belief in equality under the law? (New England colonies)
5.  Name the two main industry of New England?  Trade and ship building
6. What were the cash resources of New England colonies?  Fish and lumber
7. Name the 5  colonies that made up the Middle colonies?  New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware.
8. Which colony was first to ratify the constitution?   Delaware
9. Which colony was last to ratify the constitution?  Rhode Island
10. What colony was created by Roger Williams for true religious freedom.   (Rhode Island)
11. What group of colonies were characterized as the breadbasket of the colonies, with abundant cash crops and a varied and strong economic base?  Middle Colonies
12. What were the Middle Colonies main cash crops?   Corn and Wheat
13. Which group of colonies was  the first to welcome diversity and true religious freedom?  (Middle colonies)
14. What group of colonies were characterized by warmer climates and large plantations that could grow crops year round with the help of slaves? (Southern colonies)
15. Which early British colony had a governor whose progenitor would be a modern-day LDS prophet?  Name the colony and the prophet.  (Plymouth Colony, Gordon B. Hinckley)
16. What colony was the home to the first two Continental Congresses? (Pennsylvania)
17. In which colony was the first example of representative government located, The House of Burgess?  Virginia
18. Who founded Connecticut?     Thomas Hooker
19. Anne Hutchinson was called the most infamous woman in New England history, WHY?   Religious reform, expressing her opinion and saying God spoke to her.
20. How did Ann Hutchinson die?  Massacred by Indians along with 14 of her children. 
21. Which colony was settled by the Dutch and was first known as New Amsterdam?   New York
22. Who captured the colony of New Amsterdam and changed its name?  Indians
23. Who founded Pennsylvania Colony and what religious group did he belong to?     William Penn, Quaker
24. Name three of the four  called the Southern Colonies?, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia
25. Which was the last colony founded?  Georgia
26. Georgia was founded for the benefit of which group of people?  English debtors
27. Georgia was founded by which social reformer?   James Oglethorpe
28. What were the three major crops of the Southern Colonies?    Rice, indigo and tobacco
29. Which two countries ran the infamous Triangle  of Trade with the colonies? West Africa bought rum and traded slaves,  West Indies bought slaves and provided molasses and sugar, colonies bought molasses and sugar then made rum.
30. In 1664 name one of the two British Lords who founded New Jersey?  Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
31. In 1659 which colony outlawed Christmas?  Massachusetts

Site for Hints and Mneumonic for Memorization of Declaration

http://www.educationnews.org/articles/the-declaration-of-independence-mnemonic-patriotism-and-a-capitalization-puzzle-.html

Great video about Signers

Cool video on what happened to each of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOBWG7KvMc

Revolutionary War Animated Battles

Throughout the next few weeks we will be discussing different battles of the Revolutionary War.

This site will help you visualize those battles.    GO SEE!  

ITS FUN!  http://revolutionarywaranimated.com/

Women of the Revolutionary Period Quiz

reposted from 5-9-2014

• The female Paul Revere who in 1777 rode twice as far as Revere to New York to warn the natives that the British were coming?   Sybil Ludington

• Wife of the second president who kept the homefires burning and delivered salt peter to the war effort.    Abigail Adams

• Woman who fought in the Battle of Monmouth when her husband fell from his wounds?  Molly Pitcher aka Mary McCauley

• Wife of general who stayed at Valley Forge and knitted socks for the troops?  Martha Washington

• The Legend of the five-pointed star was cut by this woman for a flag commissioned by George Washington?  Betsy Ross

• This woman's husband was the only widower to receive a pension from the Revolutionary War for his wife's service. She disguised herself as her brother and enlisted throughout the war?  Deborah Sampson

• A spy for the British, this woman pretended to sell items in the town square while counting the continental army troops.  Ann Bates

• This woman wrote six humorously seditious plays against the British? Mercy Otis Warren

• This woman was a founder of the Committee of Correspondence, who with Samuel Adams, John Adams, was a colonial writing club encouraging the revolution.    Mercy Otis Warren

• Who was the first published black author writing poems about learning and virtue, patriotism, battles, and the greatness of American revolutionary heroes.  Phillis Wheatley 

• This woman when commanded by British soldiers to prepare a meal killed them with their own muskets.   When British plans were needed, she disguised herself as a crazy man and went about the British camp gathering vital information for the Patriot cause.  In Georgia, War Woman Creek is named after her.      Nancy Hart.

DATES Match Game

1 September 3, 1783			A Virginia ratifies the Bill of Rights, and 10 of the 12 proposed amendments become part of the U.S. Constitution.
2 January 14, 1784			B All 12 state delegations approve the Constitution, 39 delegates sign it of the 42 present, and the Convention formally adjourns.
3 May 25, 1787			C Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.
4 September 17, 1787			D George Washington is elected the first President of the United States under the Constitution with 69 electoral votes. John Adams is elected Vice President with 34 votes.
5 December 7, 1787			E Rhode Island is the last state of the original Colonies to ratify the Constitution.
6 April 6, 1789			F United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris
7 May 29, 1790			G The Constitutional Convention opens with a quorum of seven states in Philadelphia to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation
8 December 15, 1791			H The official end of the Revolutionary War takes place when Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris.

Scroll Down for the Answers:    Don't PEEK!

    THIS GAME WAS REALLY HARD TO MAKE.  IT TOOK ME AN HOUR to get this right, but I think that means I am learning my dates!  Sis. D.

  

 1   F

2    H

3    G

4    B

5    C

6    D

7     E  

8     A