SparkNotes: John Adams: Test

1. John Adams was born in what Massachusetts city?

(A) Braintree

(B) Charlestown

(C) Boston

(D) Cambridge

2. After graduation from Harvard, where did Adams teach?

(A) Andover

(B) Worcester

(C) Choate

(D) Boston Latin

3. Under whom did John Adams apprentice to study law?

(A) John Putnam

(B) James Otis

(C) Jeremiah Gridley

(D) Andrew Oliver

4. Whose nickname was "Nabby"?

(A) John Adams

(B) Sarah Adams

(C) Abigail Adams

(D) Samuel Adams

5. What religious movement passed through New England while Adams was in College?

(A) The Crusades

(B) The Protestant Reformation

(C) The Great Awakening

(D) The Second Great Awakening

6. During his law apprenticeship, Adams made a deep study of what field?

(A) Natural Law

(B) Environmental Law

(C) Tort Law

(D) Constitutional Law

7. MOST of the Parliamentary acts that led to the American Revolution occurred during the reign of which British monarch?

(A) King George

(B) King George II

(C) King George III

(D) King George IV

8. To what post did the Crown governor hope to offer John Adams?

(A) Secretary

(B) Attorney General

(C) Head of the Night watch

(D) Stamp collector

9. Adams signed his anti-British letters to the editor with what pseudonym?

(A) Clarendon

(B) Walter

(C) George

(D) Jonathan

10. For whom were the Townshend Acts named?

(A) The Prime Minister

(B) The King

(C) The Governor

(D) The Chancellor of the Exchequer

11. What year did Adams term "the most remarkable" of his life?

(A) 1760

(B) 1764

(C) 1776

(D) 1782

12. Samuel Adams helped lead what patriotic group?

(A) Sons of Liberty

(B) Massachusetts General Court

(C) The Minutemen

(D) The Liberty Tree

13. For which family is Harvard's Adams House named?

(A) The Adams

(B) The Kennedys

(C) The Washingtons

(D) The Winthrops

14. Whom did John Adams defend in the Boston Massacre trials?

(A) Thomas Preston

(B) Crispus Atticks

(C) Samuel Adams

(D) Thomas Bernard

15. What year was John Adams elected to the First Continental Congress?

(A) 1773

(B) 1774

(C) 1775

(D) 1776

16. Where did the First Continental Congress convene?

(A) Boston

(B) New York

(C) Philadelphia

(D) Washington, D.C.

17. At the Congress, Adams first worked to draft what:

(A) Declaration of Independence

(B) Articles of Confederation

(C) Declaration of Rights and Grievances^

(D) The Constitution

18. What took effect December one, 1774?

(A) Non-importation agreements

(B) The Stamp Act

(C) The Declaration of Independence

(D) Articles of Confederation

19. Adams wrote what document about the British governmental system?

(A) Novanglus

(B) Davlius

(C) A Dissertation on the Feudal System

(D) Declaration of Rights

20. Whom did Adams recommend to head the Continental Army?

(A) George Washington

(B) John Hancock

(C) James Madison

(D) Thomas Jefferson

21. Who was Adams' fellow minister to France during the war?

(A) Thomas Jefferson

(B) Benjamin Franklin

(C) John Jay

(D) James Otis

22. Which military branch did Adams play a critical role in founding?

(A) The Marines

(B) The Navy

(C) The Coast Guard

(D) The Air Force

23. With what country did Adams help garner a treaty and loan?

(A) Belgium

(B) The Netherlands

(C) England

(D) France

24. Which member of his family accompanied Adams to Paris in 1778?

(A) John Quincy

(B) Abigail

(C) Charles

(D) Samuel

25. When Adams returned to America in 1779, what document did he help to write?

(A) The Article of Confederation

(B) The Massachusetts Constitution

(C) The Constitution

(D) The Bill of Rights

26. What was the final major battle of the Revolution?

(A) Ticonderoga

(B) Bunker Hill

(C) Saratoga

(D) Yorktown

27. Adams' served as the first minister to what European power?

(A) France

(B) Spain

(C) Britain

(D) Denmark

28. Who served as the first official minister to France?

(A) Adams

(B) Jefferson

(C) Franklin

(D) Otis

29. What team negotiated the Treaty of Paris for the Americans?

(A) John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay

(B) John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson

(C) John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay

(D) Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay

30. What do the Adams, Roosevelts and Bushes have in common?

(A) Each family went to Harvard

(B) Each lived in New England

(C) Each family had two U.S. presidents

(D) Each family had Medal of Honor winners

31. What was the name of Adams' family farm?

(A) Stonybrook

(B) Stonefield

(C) Peacefield

(D) Quincy

32. How many tie votes in the Senate did Adams break?

(A) Ten

(B) Fifteen

(C) Twenty

(D) Twenty-two

33. Adams' essay "Discourses on Davila" commented on what?

(A) Civil liberties

(B) Constitutional monarchies

(C) Civil Disorder

(D) The English government

34. During the 1796 election, some Federalists withheld votes from what candidate?

(A) Thomas Pinckney

(B) John Adams

(C) Thomas Jefferson

(D) Aaron Burr

35. Adams won the presidency by how many electoral votes?

(A) 3

(B) 6

(C) 9

(D) 12

36. Where was Adams inaugurated?

(A) Philadelphia

(B) New York

(C) Boston

(D) Washington, D.C.

37. What was the Adams administration's showdown with the French?

(A) The Barbary Pirates Affair

(B) The XYZ Affair

(C) The Dred Scott Affair

(D) The Directory Affair

38. What happened in the 1796 election that was so unique?

(A) It was the only time that a president and vice president were from different parties

(B) It was the only time that a president lost the electoral vote but won the popular vote

(C) It was the only time that a president won the electoral vote and lost the popular vote

(D) It was the only time that a president and vice president tied

39. The Sedition Act prohibited all of these EXCEPT what?

(A) Foreign journalists

(B) Slandering the president

(C) Questioning acts of Congress

(D) Criticizing the government

40. Which of the following played the largest role in destroying the Federalist Party?

(A) The XYZ Affair

(B) The Alien and Sedition Acts

(C) The passing of the Bill of Rights

(D) Thomas Jefferson's criticisms

41. Whom did Adams appoint as a special envoy to Paris as a last-ditch effort to stop war?

(A) William Vans Murray

(B) Benjamin Rush

(C) Alexander Hamilton

(D) Elbridge Jerry

42. John Quincy Adams served as minister to what European country?

(A) France

(B) Prussia

(C) Spain

(D) The Netherlands

43. Adams moved where during the last months of his administration?

(A) New York City

(B) Boston

(C) Washington, D.C.

(D) Philadelphia

44. In the election of 1800, what was the Anti-Federalist party called?

(A) The Anti-Federalists

(B) The Republicans

(C) The Democratic-Republicans

(D) The Democrats

45. How many horses did Adams leave for Jefferson at the President's House?

(A) 2

(B) 3

(C) 5

(D) 7

46. Alexander Hamilton supported whom in the election of 1800?

(A) Thomas Pinckney

(B) Thomas Jefferson

(C) John Adams

(D) Aaron Burr

47. Which of Adams' sons died in the closing months of his administration?

(A) John Quincy

(B) Charles

(C) Robert

(D) Elijah

48. Adams' lived to see John Quincy elected to the presidency in what year?

(A) 1812

(B) 1816

(C) 1820

(D) 1824

49. What two U.S. presidents died on July 4, 1826?

(A) John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

(B) John Adams and James Madison

(C) John Adams and Alexander Hamilton

(D) Thomas Jefferson and James Madison