Unit 2: Standard 3.A-B

This cartoon was published by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. The cartoon encouraged...

• States to ratify the new Constitution.

• Confederate states to organize a government.

• American colonies to unite in their efforts.

• Britain to establish more American Colonies.

The French-Indian War (1756 - 1763) was part of a larger conflict between Britain and France called the

• Great War.

• Seven Years War.

• War of the Roses.

• War of Jenkin's Ear.

Which of these conflicts gave the British Empire effective control over North America in the 18th century?

• The War of 1812

• The Napoleonic Wars

• The War of Spanish Succession

• The Seven Years/French and Indian War

The Boston Massacre was

• an unprovoked attack upon innocent civilians by ruthless British soldiers.

• Great Britain's response when smuggled goods were discovered in Boston harbor.

• the killing of a large mob by mercenaries hired by the British in the port of Boston

• an incident in which five civilians were killed after British soliders were surrounded by an angry mob.

How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?

• by representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies

• by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes.

• by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent

• by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament

The French-Indian/Seven Years War is often viewed by historians as being a factor in causing the American Revolution. Which of these BEST explains why this might be the case?

• The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.

• The British were able to defeat the French in North America, Asia, and at sea.

• The high cost of the war meant Parliament had to create new taxes in the American colonies.

• The French were never truly expelled and played a large role in stirring-up colonial discontent.

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the Committees of Correspondence were MOST important because they

• were the first attempt to maintain close political cooperation among all colonists.

• provided a record of the negotiations in the Continental Congress.

• show that the group that would become the Federalists were already very powerful.

• kept Parliament informed as to what colonists were planning.

The Sons of Liberty, a group that vocally rebelled against the British prior to the American Revolution, would be most supported by what group?

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Royalists

• Tories

This painting is showing the actions of American colonists at the 1773 protest known by what name?

• The Plymouth Rocks

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The New York Draft Riots

These American women were famous for boycotting British goods by making homespun cloth and for finding substitutes for tea and sugar (all heavily taxed by the British.) Who were these women?

• Women of the Revolution

• Molly Pitchers

• National Organization of Women

• Daughters of Liberty