Semester One Quizizz

Identify the reason for the growth of representative government in the colonies. (READ CAREFULLY)

• The King did not bother enforcing his laws as long as the colonies made profits
• The King had difficulties communcating with the colonies

• The colonies were too far away for the King to govern effectively
• All of the above.

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they...

• Feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians.
• Did not want to share control of the fur trade with France.
• Resented the limits it imposed on Westward Expansion.
• Wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations. 

What individual arrived from France and aided George Washington and the Continental Army?

• Bernardo de Galvez
• Marquis de Lafayette
• De la Salle
• James Armistead 

Which action by the colonists could be categorized as an act of Civil Disobedience?

• Colonists throwing British Tea into Boston Harbor
• Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France
• Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors
• firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Mass.

Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered the 'turning point' in the Revolutionary War?

• The Native Americans were forced to stop fighting against the Continental Army
• The French became allies with America and began training and fighting with us
• It marked the end of the war with the surrender of Cornwallis
• It was Washington's Winter Training Camp

*Intolerable Acts Imposed
*First Continental Congress Convened
*Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
All the events listed above occurred during...

• The Era of Westward Expansion
• The Era of Good Feelings
• The Revolutionary Era
  The Revolutionary Era
• The Jacksonian Era

I am the leader of the Sons of Liberty and an ardent rebel who organized the Boston Tea Party.

• George Washington
• Sam Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• King George III

Why was the pamphlet Common Sense written by Thomas Paine?

• To persuade Loyalists not to fight

• To convince ordinary colonists to fight for independence

• To convince Patriots to fight

The Amrican colonists were being taxed by England's Parliament without their consent due to...

• Economic policies after the French and Indian War debt

• Religious Policies of England

• Mercantilism

One strength of the Articles of Confederation was...

• It created a method for admitting new states under the Northwest Ordinance.
• It had a strong federal government
• It did not allow the states to be in conflict with each other
• It created the idea of hamburgers