Colonial period to Revolution

What was the Sugar Act?

• A Broadway play about sugar
• A tax put on the merchants who sold sugar in the colonies
• A tax colonists had to pay to purchase sugar
• A way to describe being hyper after eating chocolate

What is the meaning of the word "quarters" in the Quartering Act?

• Money
• Coins
• Fourths
• Housing

What were three things the colonists had to put British stamps on according to the Stamp Act?

• Buildings, cattle, & their skin
• Paper, playing cards, & dice
• Food, water, & air
• Clothing, metal, & furniture

How did the Stamp Act change the relationship between the colonists and the British?

• It improved the relationship because the colonists finally had fancy British stamps on all their stuff
• It made the colonists upset with the British because they felt having to put a stamp on all paper and other similar products was unfair
• It upset the colonists because they didn't like stamps
• It didn't change the relationship

Benjamin Franklin was one of the first colonial leaders to suggest a plan for joining all of the colonies. 
He outlined his plan in a document called the – 

• Declaratory Act
• Virginia Resolve
• Writs of Assistance
• Albany Plan of Union

The roots of the plants in this cartoon represent —

• people living in Great Britain
• opponents of the American Revolution
• factors leading to the American Revolution
• laws passed by colonial assemblies

Why did the British enact the Proclamation of 1763?

• to gain more land and resources for the British Empire
• to pay off debts incurred during the French and Indian War
• to protect British trade from foreign competition
• to prevent Native Americans and settlers from fighting over land

In 1607 ______ was founded. It is the first English permanent settlement.

• Jamestown
• Plymouth
• Massachusetts' Bay Colony 
• Pennsylvania

This document, signed by the Pilgrims in 1620, helped establish the idea of self-government.

• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Mayflower Compact
• English Bill of Rights
• Magna Carta

First Representative assembly in North America.

• Mayflower Compact
• Orders of Connecticut
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• The Middle Colonies