Causes and Effects of the American Revolution

The ideas about government expressed by Paine and Jefferson are MOST influenced by what concept

• The concept of hereditary rights and privileges
• The principle of religious freedom
• The belief in Manifest Destiny
• The ideas of the Enlightenment

British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act primarily because it:

• threatened the free press
• closed the colonial courts
• disrupted trade with the West Indies
• taxed them without their consent

France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence because France:

• was working to establish democracy in European countries
• had been the primary trading partner of American colonies
• saw the war as an opportunity to end the slave trade
• wanted to weaken the British Empire

What French aristocrat fought on the side of the Americans during the Revolutionary War?

• Jean Valjean
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Voltaire
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What essential idea did Common Sense express?

• It claimed that colonists needed to be more educated
• It described mistakes of past revolutions
• It denied that citizens had any natural rights
• It attacked the wickedness of the English monarchy.

By passing the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s, the British government intended to:

• reduce shipping costs between Britain and its colonies
• ensure that the British would make money from its colonies
• create a source of income for British royal governors
• stimulate direct trade between colonies and Spain and France

After which battle were the French convinced they needed to send military aid to the colonists?

• Battle of Lexington
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Yorktown
• Battle of Concord

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• The US surrendered to the British.
• King George III was executed for his involvement. 
• Great Britain recognized American independence.
• Much of America's land was given to the French.

What was ONE effect of the French and Indian War?

• All British colonies were handed over to the French
• The colonists became more supportive of Great Britain
• The colonists began trading more with the French
• Great Britain imposed new taxes on the colonists

What do the above four items have in common?

• The colonists called them the Bill of Rights.
• The colonists wrote them during the American Revolution
• The colonists gained trading privileges from them.
• The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.