Chapter 3: Revolutionary America

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What was the main effect of the Intolerable Acts on the colonies?

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Colonists grew convinced the British government was treating them unfairly.

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Which factor contributed most to the emergence of an independence movement in the colonies in the mid-1700s? Options: British stance on the divine rights of kings, British attempts to impose new taxes on the colonies, British attacks on ships owned by American merchants, Britain's inability to make peace with Native Americans on the frontier

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British attempts to impose new taxes on the colonies

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The Magna Carta…

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limited the power of the English king

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Which of the following did American Colonists do to protest British taxes?
Options:
spin thread and weave cloth,
hunt small game,
churn butter and make cheese,
drink coffee

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spin thread and weave cloth

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The Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower compact in order to …

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set up laws to govern their settlement

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Which statement best describes the importance of the English Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta?

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Both influenced the the development of democratic ideals in America

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What was the British government's main interest during the early years of the American colonies? Options: Collecting taxes from the colonists, profiting from trade with the colonies, creating colonial representative assemblies, protecting the colonists' political rights

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profiting from trade with the colonies

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Most Native Americans sided with France during the French and Indian War because

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The French had established peaceful trade relations with Native Americans

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At the first Continental Congress colonial leaders began to discuss a new type of union among the colonies. Why?

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The Intolerable Acts were viewed by many as an act of war

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Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

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British needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.