Causes of American Revolution - SSUSH3

What was the significance of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense?

• It presented a convincing case for independence, using plain language.

• It counteracted the Great Awakening by arguing against religion.

• It clearly described how increased trade could benefit the colonies.

• It considered early arguments against using slave labor in America.

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.

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

• The War of 1812

• The Napoleonic War

• The War of Spanish Succession

• The Seven Years/French & Indian War

After winning the French & Indian War, Great Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763 which made the colonists angry because

• it did not allow them to settle on land west of the Appalachian mountains.

• it passed a tax on items such as newspapers, wills and contracts.

• it forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.

• it took away their representation in Parliament.

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 cartoon printed in 1760 was most likely a protest against

• pirates

• food safety

• British taxes

• cruelty of British soldiers

Why did American colonists resent British taxes?

• American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.

• Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any duties .

• Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.

• Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.

The 1763 Treaty of Paris concluded a conflict between which two colonial powers?

• England and Spain

• France and England

• Spain and Portugal

• Portugal and France

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine made a case for American independence on which grounds?

• British leaders had little regard for the best interests of the colonists.

• British institutions were failing to provide sufficient aid to the colonists.

• British leaders were overlooking the important contributions of colonists.

• British institutions placed too many political responsibilities on the colonists.

What was the MAIN purpose of the 1763 Treaty of Paris?

• to formalize a military alliance between France and Spain against Great Britain

• to formalize trading rights between the European powers and American Indians

• to end the Revolutionary War by recognizing the independence of the United States

• to end the French and Indian War and divide the colonial territories in North America