Unit 2 Revolution Review

What is the purpose of adding the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution?

• increase federal authority

• advance universal suffrage

• protect the rights of citizens

• define the rights of states

Law forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.

• Intolerable Acts
• Currency Act
• Quartering Act
• Declaratory Act

All of the following were causes of the American Revolution EXCEPT

• the Coercive Acts

• the Stamp Act

• Quebec Act

• Articles of Confederation

Allowed the British to search colonial ships and homes for evidence of illegal trade.

• Navigation Acts
• Stamp Act
• Intolerable Act
• Writs of Assistance

Boston Tea Party was a protest because of the Navigation Acts. 

• True 
• False

Benjamin Franklin wanted the colonists to unite for common defense. What became the model for Franklin's plan?

• British Parliament

• the New York Charter

• the French Monarchy

• the Iroquois Confederacy

The Proclamation Line of 1763 allowed colonists in the Ohio River Valley. 

• True
• False

Which action did the First Congress take to satisfy anti-Federalist concerns regarding constitutional reform?

• revising the Articles of Confederation

• approving the Connecticut Compromise

• Ratifying the Virginia Plan

• Adding the Bill of Rights

Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the war and occurred before the Declaration of Independence. 

• True
• False

How did members of the Parliament react to American resistance to the Stamp Act?

• They repealed the act

• They imprisoned the protestors

• They passed an act with higher taxes

• They encouraged Americans to move west