AMERICAN HISTORY CONNECTING WITH
THE PAST COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● Benjamin Franklin
Answer: Proposed the Albany Plan. Was also a politician, scientist,
postmaster, freemason, inventor, state activist, author, and diplomat.
●● Boston Massacre
Answer: Incident on March 5, 1770, between colonists and British
soldiers. The soldiers ended up killing five people.
●● Boston Tea Party
Answer: Event on December 6, 1773, in which men dressed as
Mohawks threw tea overboard. Was an act of resistance against the Tea
Act.
●● Charles Townshend
Answer: British Prime Minister. Influenced Parliament to pass the
Townshend Acts.
●● Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
, Answer: Acts against Massachusetts, which closed the port of Boston,
reduced colonial self-government, permitted royal officers to be tried
outside the colonies, and provided for quartering of British troops in
colonial homes.
●● Committees of Correspondence
Answer: Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system
of communication between patriot leaders in New England and
throughout the colonies
●● Creoles
Answer: Descendants of Spanish-born but born in Latin America;
resented inferior social, political, economic status.
●● Currency Act
Answer: 1764 British act forbidding the American colonies to issue
paper money as legal tender; act was repealed in 1773 by the British as
an effort to ease tensions between themselves and the colonies.
●● Daughters of Liberty
Answer: In informal organization of women that participated in boycotts
and protests again British acts.
●● First Continental Congress
THE PAST COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● Benjamin Franklin
Answer: Proposed the Albany Plan. Was also a politician, scientist,
postmaster, freemason, inventor, state activist, author, and diplomat.
●● Boston Massacre
Answer: Incident on March 5, 1770, between colonists and British
soldiers. The soldiers ended up killing five people.
●● Boston Tea Party
Answer: Event on December 6, 1773, in which men dressed as
Mohawks threw tea overboard. Was an act of resistance against the Tea
Act.
●● Charles Townshend
Answer: British Prime Minister. Influenced Parliament to pass the
Townshend Acts.
●● Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
, Answer: Acts against Massachusetts, which closed the port of Boston,
reduced colonial self-government, permitted royal officers to be tried
outside the colonies, and provided for quartering of British troops in
colonial homes.
●● Committees of Correspondence
Answer: Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system
of communication between patriot leaders in New England and
throughout the colonies
●● Creoles
Answer: Descendants of Spanish-born but born in Latin America;
resented inferior social, political, economic status.
●● Currency Act
Answer: 1764 British act forbidding the American colonies to issue
paper money as legal tender; act was repealed in 1773 by the British as
an effort to ease tensions between themselves and the colonies.
●● Daughters of Liberty
Answer: In informal organization of women that participated in boycotts
and protests again British acts.
●● First Continental Congress
