American and French Revolution

Why did many slaves choose to help the British?

• they were offered freedom
• they were offered food
• Patriots would not pay them
• British were better trained

What was one purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• to establish a framework for government
• to state the reasons for the colonies to separate from England
• to express reasons for limiting immigration
• to list arguments for women’s suffrage

The French and Indian was was fought between the

• French against the Indians
• Indians against the Spanish
• French and British against the Indians
• The French and Indians against the British and the colonists.

The economic cost of the war led to which two events that created tension between the British and the colonists?

• The Quartering Act and thesecond was the  Letter Tax.
•  The Proclamation of 1763, and the second was a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act (1765).
• Declaration of Independence and the second was the  blocking of the Boston Harbor
• The French and Indian War and the Battle of the Bloody Marsh.

What is a boycott?

• a citizen-led meeting to protest a law
• repealing a law because of protest
• a punishment in public
• refusal to buy a good or service

Which factor contributed most to the emergence of an independence movement in the colonies in the mid-1700s? 

• Britain’s stance on the divine right of kings
• British attempts to impose new taxes on the colonies
• British attacks on ships owned by American merchants
• Britain’s inability to make peace with Native Americans on the frontier

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• legal documents
• inns
• farm animals
• imports

Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

• The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
• Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
• The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
• Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

Americans had problems funding the war because ________________________.

• Congress did not have the power to raise money through taxes. 
• the States were against the war.
•  no foreign countries would help the Patriots pay for the war. 
• The British closed all Colonial banks at the start of the war.