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Question 1

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What country did Christopher Columbus THINK he landed in?
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  • Cuba
  • England
  • East Indies of Asia
  • Spain

Question 2

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Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in 1487 in search for riches.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Christopher Columbus actually landed in present day [blank_start]Cuba[blank_end] and explored the [blank_start]Caribbean[blank_end].
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  • Caribbean
  • England
  • Asia
  • Cuba
  • India
  • Hawaii

Question 4

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Name Columbus' 3 ships.
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  • Pinta
  • Santa Maria
  • Niña
  • Titanic
  • Justiné

Question 5

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In what year was Pocahontas born?
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  • 1492
  • 1738
  • 1876
  • 1595

Question 6

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Pocahontas' tribe settled in the colony of Roanoke.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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In 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of Englishmen to establish an English settlement (Jamestown) in North Carolina to find gold and riches.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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What are some strengths of the Patriots?
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  • More of a cause
  • Lots of money
  • Smart leaders
  • Many sympathizers

Question 9

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What are some of the Patriots weaknesses?
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  • Lots of money
  • Not a lot of money
  • Natives sided with the British
  • Strong government supporting them

Question 10

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What are some strengths the Redcoats had?
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  • More of a cause
  • Strong government and king as support
  • Natives sided with the British mostly
  • Lots of money for guns and ammunition

Question 11

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What groups were involved in the French and Indian War?
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  • German and English
  • Indian and French
  • English and French
  • French and Russian

Question 12

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What was the Sugar Act?
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  • A tax on things such as paper, newspapers, and letters
  • A tax on luxury items such as wine, silk, sugar, and coffee that the colonists bought from Britain
  • A law that said colonists couldn't move past the Appalachians
  • A tax on homes

Question 13

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Thomas Paine was mostly recognized as a [blank_start]pamphleteer[blank_end].
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  • pamphleteer
  • delegate
  • writer
  • soldier

Question 14

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Name the criteria a person must have to become a representative in the House of Representatives.
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  • You must be at least 25 years old
  • You must have been a citizen of America for 7 years
  • You must have worked in the executive branch
  • You must live in the state you want to represent

Question 15

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The executive branch executes laws made by the legislative branch.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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The [blank_start]Supreme[blank_end] Court is the highest court in the US.
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  • Supreme
  • Justice
  • Town

Question 17

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What is "separation of powers?"
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  • The division of the government into three separate branches
  • The job each branch of government does

Question 18

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The three branches of government are [blank_start]executive[blank_end], [blank_start]legislative[blank_end], and [blank_start]judicial[blank_end].
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  • executive
  • legislative
  • judicial
  • state
  • Congress
  • bicameral

Question 19

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Which branch has the most amount of checks?
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  • Executive
  • Legislative
  • Judicial

Question 20

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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • John Hancock

Question 21

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The Declaration of Independence was written in [blank_start]1776[blank_end].
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  • 1776

Question 22

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What does preamble mean?
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  • Introduction
  • Conclusion
  • Speech
  • Document

Question 23

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In what city did the Constitutional Convention meet?
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  • Boston
  • Philadelphia
  • Charlotte
  • Albany

Question 24

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The 19th amendment protects the voting rights of [blank_start]women[blank_end].
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  • women
  • immigrants

Question 25

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Which amendment protects a citizen's right to vote, regardless of race?
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  • 15
  • 18
  • 11
  • 13

Question 26

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The Constitiutional Amendment that was later repealed was the 19th amendment.
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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The legislative branch is discussed in Article [blank_start]1[blank_end]. The executive branch is discussed in Article [blank_start]2[blank_end]. The judicial branch is discussed in Article [blank_start]3[blank_end].
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  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Question 28

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Andrew Jackson was born in 1789 in the border area between North and South Carolina.
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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In what year did Andrew Jackson become president?
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  • 1828
  • 1790
  • 1812
  • 1888

Question 30

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What act was passed while Jackson was president?
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  • Indian Removal Act of 1830
  • Sugar Act
  • Stamp Act

Question 31

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The first major land acquisition for the new world was by President Thomas Jefferson when he bought the Lousiana territory from the French.
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  • True
  • False

Question 32

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Which president purchased the Florida territory from Spain for $5 million?
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  • James Monroe
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington

Question 33

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In [blank_start]1836[blank_end], Texas fought for and gained its independence from Mexio.
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  • 1836

Question 34

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The state of [blank_start]GEorgia[blank_end] forced the Cherokees to leave the state and march west from 1838-1839.
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  • Georgia

Question 35

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Who supervised the removal of the Cherokees?
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  • Federal troops
  • General Winfield Scott
  • General Cornwallis
  • General Washington

Question 36

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The removal of the Cherokees was offically called the [blank_start]Trail of Tears[blank_end].
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  • Trail of Tears

Question 37

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What is an abolitionist?
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  • A person who supported the end of slavery
  • A person who supported slavery
  • A person who owned slaves

Question 38

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A humanitarian is a person who works to make other people's lives better
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  • True
  • False

Question 39

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Manifest [blank_start]destiny[blank_end] is a future event that is sure to happen.
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  • destiny

Question 40

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By the late [blank_start]1840s[blank_end], most factory workers were [blank_start]immigrants[blank_end].
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  • 1840s
  • immigrants

Question 41

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How many German immigrants came to the US between 1850 and 1860?
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  • 1 million
  • 3.5 million
  • 200,000
  • 1.5 million

Question 42

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The cotton gin was developed by Eli [blank_start]Whitney[blank_end].
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  • Whitney

Question 43

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What were some crops that the South was dependent on?
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  • cotton
  • tobacco
  • sugar
  • rice
  • milk
  • corn

Question 44

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Why were most northerners abolitionists?
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  • Slavery wasn't needed for the North's economic growth
  • They weren't
  • They were afraid they would get in trouble with other countries

Question 45

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What is one of the main reasons the west grew?
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  • The California Gold Rush
  • new land
  • good farm land

Question 46

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On what day did settlers reach Jamestown?
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  • May 14, 1607
  • May 10, 1600
  • May 13, 1702

Question 47

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On May 14, 1607, the settlers landed in [blank_start]Jamestown[blank_end] about 60 miles away from the mouth of the [blank_start]Chesapeake Bay[blank_end].
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  • Jamestown
  • Chesapeake Bay

Question 48

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What Native American group attacked the settlers of Jamestown?
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  • Powhatan
  • Cherokee
  • Catawba
  • Apache

Question 49

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Who organized and financed the enterprise for the Roanoke colony?
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh
  • the King of Spain
  • Christopher Columbus

Question 50

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In [blank_start]1590[blank_end], Captain [blank_start]White[blank_end] returns to Roanoke to fine that the colony disappeared.
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  • 1590
  • White

Question 51

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When Captain White returned, "CRO" was carved on a nearby tree and "CROATOAN" was carved on a post.
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  • True
  • False

Question 52

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What was the Columbian Exchange?
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  • The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases spreading from the Old World to the New World.
  • The import of goods between countries

Question 53

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Effects of the Columbian Exchange are advanced [blank_start]agricultural[blank_end] production, evolution of [blank_start]warfare[blank_end], incerased [blank_start]mortality[blank_end] rates, and [blank_start]education[blank_end].
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  • agricultural
  • warfare
  • mortality
  • education

Question 54

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The Columbian Exchange began before Columbus' discovery of 1492.
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  • True
  • False

Question 55

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Europeans came to America and began colonies to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs.
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  • True
  • False

Question 56

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The first colony out of the [blank_start]thirteen[blank_end] colonies that was founded was in [blank_start]Virginia[blank_end] in [blank_start]1607.[blank_end]
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  • 1607.
  • thirteen
  • Virginia

Question 57

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What is a primary source?
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  • First hand evidence that has not been passed down
  • Evidence that has been dictated by other people

Question 58

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A secondary source is a source of information that has been [blank_start]passed down[blank_end] or written [blank_start]after[blank_end] the event has happened.
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  • passed down
  • after

Question 59

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Name the eight branches of social studies.
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  • Anthropology
  • Archeology
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Political science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Earth Science
  • Historical Fiction

Question 60

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The first president of the US was [blank_start]George Washington[blank_end]. He was also the general of the [blank_start]continental[blank_end] army.
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  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • continental
  • colonial

Question 61

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George Washington lead the [blank_start]Continental Army[blank_end] in victory over the [blank_start]British[blank_end] in the [blank_start]American Revolution.[blank_end]
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  • Continental Army
  • British
  • American Revolution.

Question 62

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Washington's army was a group of untrained "ragtags" who had to fight against strong, trained British soldiers.
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  • True
  • False

Question 63

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Who was the third president of the US?
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  • John Adams
  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Jackson

Question 64

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[blank_start]John Adams[blank_end] wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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  • John Adams

Question 65

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In [blank_start]1774[blank_end], John Adams served on the First [blank_start]Continental Congress[blank_end] and helped to draft the Declaration of Indpendence.
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  • Continental Congress
  • House of Representatives
  • Constitutional Convention
  • 1774
  • 1789
  • 1738

Question 66

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Thomas Paine supported slavery and was against women's rights.
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  • True
  • False

Question 67

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What was a famous article that Thomas Paine was the author of?
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  • Common Sense
  • the Constitution
  • Treaty of 1763

Question 68

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During the War of Independence, [blank_start]Thomas Paine[blank_end] volunteered for the Continental Army and started with the writing of his influential [blank_start]American Crisis[blank_end] papers.
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  • American Crisis
  • Thomas Paine

Question 69

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Abigail Adams was the wife of [blank_start]John Adams[blank_end] and the mother of [blank_start]John Quincy Adams[blank_end].
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  • John Adams
  • John Quincy Adams

Question 70

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Abigail was an animal right's advocate.
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  • True
  • False

Question 71

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The quote "Remember the ladies" was said by Abigail Adams and it was written in a formal letter to her husband.
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  • True
  • False

Question 72

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What are some public affairs (in his adopted city) Ben Franklin was active in?
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  • launching a lending library
  • hospital and college
  • acclaim for his experiments with electricity
  • political position
  • becoming President

Question 73

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During the [blank_start]American Revolution,[blank_end] Franklin served in the [blank_start]Second[blank_end] Continental Congress.
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  • American Revolution
  • Civil War
  • Second
  • First

Question 74

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Ben Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence.
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  • True
  • False

Question 75

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The Sons of Liberty were an organization of British spies created in the Old World.
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  • True
  • False

Question 76

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Why were the Sons of Liberty formed?
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  • To protect colonists' rights and fight British taxation
  • To keep the American colonists from rebelling against the British government

Question 77

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The Sons of Liberty played a major role in fighting the [blank_start]Stamp Act[blank_end] in [blank_start]1765[blank_end].
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  • Stamp Act
  • Sugar Act
  • 1765
  • 1777
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