4. As the situation worsened in the colonies, colonists promised to remain peaceful if Britain granted them the liberties they had possessed under which Massachusetts governor?

(A) Hutchinson

(B) Pownall

(D) Adams

5. What newspaper did Adams help found in 1748?

(A) Boston Gazette

(B) Independent Advertiser

(D) Independent Boston

6. The objections of Adams's Puritan mother prevented him from entering which profession?

(A) Journalism

(B) Law

(D) Divinity

7. Thomas Hutchinson was once known as the "Prime Minister" of what political party?

(A) Court Party

(B) Whig Party

(D) Tory Party

8. Adams married how many times?

(A) one

(B) two

(D) four

9. What was Adams' first public office?

(A) Tax collector

(B) Clerk of the market

(D) Councilman

10. At the height of the controversy over the Townshend Acts, Adams arranged for British goods to be returned to England aboard which vessels?

(A) Governor Hutchinson's sloops

(B) John Hancock's ships

(D) French naval vessels

11. Stamp masters who tried to perform their duties were threatened with a trip to which Boston landmark?

(A) Beacon Hill

(B) Liberty Tree

(D) Boston Harbor

12. How much were Adams's tax collections short in 1767?

(A) 2000 pounds

(B) 4000 pounds

(D) 10000 pounds

13. Prior to the Sugar Act, what had British taxes done?

(A) Regulated trade

(B) Raised armies

(D) Raised revenue

14. What group did Adams establish to handle communications?

(A) Committees of Correspondence

(B) Sons of Liberty clubs

(D) Stamp Act Congress

15. How many colonies did not attend the Stamp Act Congress?

(A) 0

(B) two

(D) four

16. Britain repealed what in 1766?

(A) The Sugar Act

(B) The Declaratory Act

(D) The Townshend Acts

17. An August fourteen, 1765 mob leveled what Boston building?

(A) Governor Hutchinson's house

(B) The stamp office

(D) The Green Dragon Tavern

18. How many children did Adams' have?

(A) 0

(B) one

(D) three

19. What allowed customs agents to search at will?

(A) Warrants

(B) Writs

(D) Gubernatorial proclamation

20. Which of the following posts did Hutchinson NOT hold:

(A) Lieutenant Governor

(B) Captain of Castle Williams

(D) Probate Judge of Suffolk Country

21. Massachusetts merchants made better profits by trading with whom other than the British?

(A) French

(B) Irish

(D) Portuguese

22. When Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts, they left which duty in place?

(A) Stamp tax

(B) Sugar tax

(D) Tea tax

23. In 1761, who assumed control of the Country Party?

(A) John Hancock

(B) John Adams

(D) Samuel Adams

24. Who helped defend the soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre?

(A) John Adams

(B) Josiah Bartlett

(D) James Otis

25. In 1765, Adams's supporters managed to force Hutchinson from what post?

(A) Probate Judge

(B) Chief Justice

(D) Captain of the Militia

26. What prompted Adams to warn in 1784 that Boston might collapse like Rome?

(A) Gambling clubs

(B) The Constitution's adoption

(D) Theater groups

27. What group reprimanded Adams in 1778 for opposing the Constitution?

(A) The Massachusetts General Council

(B) The Sons of Liberty

(D) The Boston Town Meeting

28. In 1765, Adams was elected to what post?

(A) The General Court

(B) The General Council

(D) Mayor of Boston

29. Adams served on which group responsible for rigging elections in the 1740s?

(A) Country Party

(B) Caucus Club

(D) Sons of Liberty

30. Put these Acts in the Correct Order:

(A) Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Intolerable Acts

(B) Townshend Acts, Sugar Act, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act

(D) Sugar Act, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act

31. How long did Adams serve as governor of Massachusetts

(A) six months

(B) two years

(D) four years

32. The nonimportation agreements banned trade with what country?

(A) Britain

(B) Ireland

(D) The America colonies

33. The Stamp Act required stamps on the following EXCEPT:

(A) legal documents

(B) newspapers

(D) commercial papers

34. How many people died in the Boston Massacre?

(A) five

(B) ten

(D) sixteen

35. How many soldiers were convicted in the Massacre?

(A) 0

(B) one

(D) three

36. Adams held what nickname?

(A) Father of Our Country

(B) The Great Emancipator

(D) Patriot of the Revolution

37. What act did Parliament pass in response to the Boston Tea Party?

(A) Sugar Act

(B) Townshend Acts

(D) Declaratory Act

38. When Governor Bernard fled Boston, what did he leave behind?

(A) All of the unused stamps

(B) His furniture

(D) His wife

39. The Sons of Liberty, who threw 342 boxes of tea into Boston Harbor, were dressed as what?

(A) British Sailors

(B) Colonial Soldiers

(D) French Clowns

40. The Sugar Act lowered taxes on what item?

(A) Glass

(B) Molasses

(D) Stamps

41. In 1771, Britain began to pay colonial governors with the proceeds of what bill?

(A) The Sugar Act

(B) The Townshend Acts

(D) The Tea Act

42. Who did Philadelphia declare to be "public enemies" in October 1773?

(A) Redcoats

(B) Governor Hutchinson

(D) Privateers

43. Adams borrowed money to attend which conference?

(A) Stamp Act Congress

(B) First Continental Congress

(D) Constitutional Convention

44. Who arrived in Boston in 1768?

(A) Francis Bernard

(B) Thomas Hutchinson

(D) British Troops

45. What Massachusetts resolution did the First Continental Congress adopt?

(A) Boston Port Bill

(B) Suffolk Resolves

(D) Liberty Tree Proclamation

46. At Harvard College, a portrait of whom was destroyed just before the Boston Massacre?

(A) Francis Bernard

(B) Thomas Hutchinson

(D) Samuel Adams

47. John Adams wrote all of the Massachusetts Constitution except:

(A) Article I

(B) Article II

(D) Article IV

48. Adams supported whom as commander-in-chief of the Continental forces?

(A) John Adams

(B) George Washington

(D) William Gage

49. Adams tried to block what from coming to Boston in the 1790s?

(A) British diplomats

(B) A theater group

(D) Irish immigrants

50. What event reinspired Adams and helped him get elected governor?

(A) The French Revolution

(B) Passage of the Bill of Rights

(D) The passage of the Massachusetts Constitution

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