Sheet 2: 1754-1783

The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to

• allow American farmers to use the Mississippi River

• outlaw slavery in the Ohio River Valley

• prevent France from expanding into the Great Lakes region

• avoid conflicts with Native American Indians west of the Appalachian Mountains

The results of the French and Indian War led to the independence movement in the thirteen colonies because the British

• lost control of Canada and Florida

• began imposing new taxes on the colonists

• removed the Spanish threat to the colonists

• opened the area west of the Appalachians to colonial settlers

Which action by the British government was considered by the colonists to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen?

• Making treaties with Native American Indians

• Protecting the colonies from foreign invasion

• Failing to enforce the Navigation Acts

• Taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

In the 1760's, Americans in the original thirteen British colonies began to protest against

• efforts by the King to extend voting rights to women

• laws passed by the British Parliament regulating colonial trade

• limits placed on land ownership by Royal governors

• decisions of British authorities to end immigration to the colonies

American colonists showed their opposition to the British taxation and trade restrictions of the 1760's primarily by

• supporting the French against the British

• boycotting products from Great Britain

• overthrowing the royal governors in most of the colonies

• purchasing additional products from Native American tribes

During the early 1770's, how did the British government respond to increasing American protests of British colonial policy?

• it offered self-government to the colonists

• it increased efforts to maintain order and enforce laws

• it asked France for help in controlling the colonists

• it agreed to grant the colonies representation in Parliament

In the publication "Common Sense", Thomas Paine argued that

• foreign nations would reject an independent American government

• the British government would be impossible to overthrow

• America was dependent on British trade and protection

• the American colonies should break away from England

...As to government matters, it is not in the power of Britain to do this continent justice: the business of it will soon be too weighty and intricate to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which, when obtained, requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness. There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease... - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense", 1776

What is the main argument Thomas Paine makes concerning the relationship between Great Britain and its American colonies?

• Britain wants to make America a part of the European continental system

• America is too distant for Great Britain to govern effectively

• America lacks representation in Parliament

• American colonial leaders believe British officials want to use them to fight European wars

Which idea is stated in the Declaration of Independence?

• The President has supreme power

• Political power comes from the people

• People do not have to obey laws they do not like

• States should have as much power as the national government

According to the Declaration of Independence, governments are established to

• protect the nation from invasion

• provide a system of checks and balances

• protect the natural rights of citizens

• guarantee voting rights for all citizens