The American Revolution

The British started the French and Indian War because they wanted to 

• change the culture of the American Indians
• drive the French from the Ohio River Valley
• stop the French from taking over the colonies
• make the American Indians end the fur trade

What land did Britain control after the French and Indian War?

• Canada and most of the land west of the Mississippi River
• Most of Canada and the land north of the Mississippi River
• Canada and most of the land east of the Mississippi River
• all of Canada and the land South of the Mississippi River 

What two groups were separated by the Proclamation Line of 1763?

• colonists and American Indians
• British and French
• French and American Indians
• Spanish and Native Americans

Why did the British Parliament need to tax the colonies?

• the British wanted to pay for freedom for the Indians
• they needed to pay money owed to the French
• to pay the cost of the French and Indian War
• the king owed money to the Spanish army

Why were the colonists upset about the new taxes they were asked to pay by the British Parliament?

• colonist did not win the war with France
• the merchants wanted to tax their own goods
• the colonists wanted representation in Parliament
• Britain gave the tax money that was collected to France

Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet, Common Sense, that the colonists

• should fight for independence from Great Britain
• made a mistake with the Declaration of Independence
• should keep paying taxes to King George III
• cannot take away the natural right of people

The Boston Massacre actually started when the 

• British soldiers shot and killed five colonists
• crowd yelled and threw snowballs at the soldiers
• colonists cheered for the soldiers in Boston
• Tea Act was passed by Britain's Parliament

The Daughters of Liberty stopped buying British goods to 

• blockade the American ports
• boycott British merchants
• petition the Kind to end taxes
• protest Patriot meetings

In the second and longest part of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed

• complaints against the British king
• rights the government could not take away
• signatures of the delegates of the second Continental Congress
• arguments that the colonies have to be free to protect the colonies

The colonial leaders believed the government should protect its' citizens

• opportunity cost
• natural rights
• declaration
• taxation