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Revolutionary War
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3. What Act was created in 1764 to provide quarters and supplies for British troops ?
5. Besides urging merchants to stop buying goods from England, what did the Liberty Boys first want for Americans to decide their on their own?
8. In old NYC, since 1783 what day of the year was the biggest holiday, that was celebrated on November 25 (coinciding with Thanksgiving) until World War 1 ?
9. On December 10, 1853 a fire burnt down a magnificent house on Pearl street and the Franklin Square Hotel that was next door. Before the Revolution, British officials that were entertained in this elegant house thought so rich a colony could afford to pay a new tax. What was the name of this NYC house at 326 Pearl street, which was one of the causes of the Stamp Act, and therefore the American Revolution ?
11. The British looted the Corporation Library, the 1754 New York Society Library, the Union Library Society of NY and the Kings College Library. Aproximately how many thousand books did the British troops steal from NYC during the American Revolution ?
12. British Captain Thomas Preston and the eight soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre (1770) were defended by what famous person and future President ?
14. Sugar houses were used as prisons by the British during the Revolutionary War because they were thick stone structures with small windows and what kind of ceilings?
15. A fire beginning on Whitehall Street, Sept. 21, 1776 burnt one third of NYC. What street just south of the open land of the College was the northern boundary of the great fire of 1776 ?
20. George Washington's best horse Nelson started and finished the Revolutionary War with George. What color was Nelson ?
21. The Currency Act was created by the British in 1764 which prevented colony paper bills of credit to become legal what ?
22. What famous writer named Thomas lived between 1737-1809. He helped to start the American revolution and was vilified for his atheism ?
24. Before the Revolution the streets now called Broadway, Spruce, Hudson, Mosco, Bleecker, Beekman, Market and Rose, were all at different times named after what name in common ?
25. On January 17, 1770, British soldiers sawed down the Liberty pole in City Hall park which stood for almost three years. This action started the first bloodshed of the the American Revolution. Where was this first battle fought ?
27. The phrase taxation without representation, was coined during a sermon in 1759 at Old West Church in Boston, by what Reverend ?
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1. General Howe chasing George Washington's Army through NYC, slowed his chase down to stop at a farm that was serving tea. Whose tea party saved the American Army in 1776 ?
2. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, a well known celebrity was tired of British arrogance, and wrote the first Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was very enthusiastic about this first version, but it revolted many of the delegates of the Continental Congress. Who was this famous man who wrote the first Declaration of Independence, a year before Jefferson in 1775 ?
4. The British Stamp Act of 1765 was to pay for the French and Indian War, which was also known as the how many Year War ?
6. The 1776 fire was mostly likely set by an early American patriot. George Washington said about the blaze, Providence, or some good honest fellow, has done more for us than we were disposed to do for ourselves. This fire of Sept. 21, 1776 started in a tavern, hotel or brothel (or all three) on Whitehall Street below Bowling Green, after some fellow fired the structures with balls of flaming what ?
7. What was the anonymously written pamphlet distributed on January 10, 1776 which received credit for igniting the American Revolutionary War. It's inspiration and encouragement led directly to the ratification of the Declaration of Independence ?
10. An Act of 1733 placed a prohibitive duty on the import of a certain product from any Non-British area. What was this product that was the subject of the first trade-regulation law imposed by the British against NYC citizens ?
13. The second major fire during the British occupation on August 3, 1778 started at a wharf in the area now called Old Slip (by Hanover Square). On August 3, 1778, Old Slip had 54 to 64 homes destroyed in the second major fire during the British occupation. Unfortunately the military took over firemens duties. What was the last name of the owner of this Wharf ?
15. What tavern did George Washington have his final glass of wine with his officers in, after the Revolutionary War ended ?
16. The 1765 Stamp Act was created for funds to protect the American frontier. Newspapers, and other publications were taxed per copy printed, every Advertisement included had to pay two shillings as well. Legal documents and licenses and anything written or printed on skin, piece of vellum, parchment, sheet or piece of paper was taxed. Besides playing cards what other common game was taxed due to the Stamp Act ?
17. What was Queen Street called after the American Revolution ?
18. The Sugar Act of 1764, was not concerned with regulating trade, the Sugar Act was used by the British to raise what ?
19. Columbia College was founded in 1754, under a different name. The cornerstone was laid August 23, 1756, after Trinity got the title to the old Company Farm located west of Broadway between Murray and Barclay Streets. This College closed it's doors in 1776 and reopened them as Columbia College in 1784. Before the American Revolution what was Columbia College called ?
23. What was the theme of the second party that the Sons of Liberty repeated in Boston on March 7, 1774 ?
26. In the last few hours before the British left NYC on Tuesday, November 25, 1783, Major Cunningham tried to take down an American flag in front of a Harlem Tavern (or a boardinghouse on Murray street), receiving a bloody nose from a womans broomstick. What was this woman with a broomsticks last name, who ended up winning the last battle of the American Revolution, just 2 hours before the noon departure of the British army ?
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