Causes of the American Revolution

How did the 1763 Treaty of Paris - which ended the French and Indian (Seven Year’s) War – help start the American Revolution? 

• Since the treaty reduced the French threat, the British wanted to reduce their military presence, but still get the colonies to pay for the war.
• The treaty led to an increase in British military presence in the colonies, including having colonists quarter soldiers in peace time.
• Once the treaty was signed, the colonies had more in common with France than with Great Britain.
• The treaty gave Great Britain access to more land and they began to completely ignore the original colonies.

What did the Townshend Acts bring about? 

• direct taxes on legal documents
• indirect taxes on imported goods such as lead, paint, and glass, etc.
• relief from taxes on tea
• the closing of Boston Harbor

How did colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763? 

• They resisted the British regulation of colonial agriculture.
• They supported the right to manufacture goods within the colonies.
• They opposed the ban on colonial expansion into western lands.
• They accepted the presence of more British troops to protect the colonies.

“The only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves; and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them but by their respective legislatures.”  
-Statement by the Stamp Act Congress, 1765  
Identify the main idea of the quotation above: 

• The colonial legislatures should be appointed by the English King with the consent of Parliament.
• Only the colonists’ elected representatives should have the power to levy taxes.
• The English King should have the right to tax the colonies.
• The colonists should oppose all taxation.

All of the following were purposes of the Sons of Liberty EXCEPT 

• to organize colonial resistance
• to show growing dislike of British rule
• to protest the Stamp Act
• to support the efforts of Loyalists to maintain British control over the colonies

The purpose of the Committees of Correspondence was to_________.

• keep the different colonies in communication with each other prior to the Revolution

• organize the Boston Tea Party

• negotiate the Treaty of Paris 1763

• to oppose the activities of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonial settlement west of a border that ran roughly along the 

• Great Lakes
• Atlantic Ocean
• St. Lawrence River
• Appalachian Mountains

As a result of the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed a series of laws designed to punish Boston and Massachusetts known as___

• the Navigation Acts
•  the Quartering Act
• the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
• the Stamp Act

Which of the following is in correct chronological order? 

• Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress
• Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress,   Boston Tea Party 
• First Continental Congress, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
• First Continental Congress, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party

After the French and Indian War, Parliament passed new laws for the colonies. These laws were passed because Britain

• was afraid the French would support the colonies.
• was afraid many of the colonists would return to Britain.
• needed the colonists to help pay for the war. 
• wanted the Native Americans to return to their lands.