Unit 2: Road to Revolution 2025

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Look at the photograph and select the BEST description based on what you see: The colonists provoked the British soldiers by throwing snowballs, The colonists have no ability to fight back and are weaker, The British soldiers are shooting at an unarmed crowd without mercy.

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The British soldiers are shooting at an unarmed crowd without mercy

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How might this cartoon be used by a LOYALIST to argue AGAINST independence? Options: the colonists are fair and are only demonstrating their anger with the tax, the British are dealing with wild colonists and the only way the colonies can survive is if the British bring order, the British have always done what is best for the colonies and the Stamp Act was created to protect the colonists, not hurt them

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the British are dealing with wild colonists and the only way the colonies can survive is if the British bring order

Front

Which colony region had Rum distilling, trading/shipping, iron working, and cattle/grain?

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New England

Front

Which statement best describes the passage: The planter earns £2000. He spends £2500 on goods. He buys some of the goods on credit. So, at the end of the year he owes the merchant house £500?

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The planters spends more than he earns and buys goods on credit.

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Which statement best describes the passage: The planter earns £2500. He spends £500 on goods. He uses the other £2000 to pay off his debt of £1500? Options: The planter earns more than he spends and repays what he owes, The planter spends more than he earns and buys goods on credit

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The planter earns more than he spends and repays what he owes

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How would the Currency Act make it more difficult for planters to repay their debt to British merchants?

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It limited the money that planters could use to repay debt.

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Which of the following in an IMPORT? An import is something that goes into the Thirteen Colonies: Manufactured Goods, Grain, Tobacco

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Manufactured Goods

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Which of the following is an EXPORT? An export is something that is leaving the Thirteen Colonies: Iron, Enslaved People, Manufactured Goods

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Iron

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Why did the British government begin to tax its American colonies after the Proclamation of 1763? Options: to keep the colonists from trading with other nations, to prevent the colonists from trading with Native Americans, to raise money to pay the costs of defending the French and Indian War

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to raise money to pay the costs of defending the French and Indian War

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What were the colonists the most mad about following the French and Indian War? The acts that the British passed, which taxed the colonists and prohibited them from traveling to the new lands; The requirement of colonists to house British soldiers in their homes; That the British were taxing the colonists and the colonists were not included in the decision making process

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That the British were taxing the colonists and the colonists were not included in the decision making process