History 8 Chapter 6 Review

What stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains? 

• Northwest Ordinance
• Proclamation of 1763
• Declaration of Independence 
• Townshend Acts

What event put Britain in debt, so they decided to tax the colonies to pay off this debt?

• French & Indian War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812
• French Revolution 

What word means: refuse to buy; stop buying; or refusing to give your business to a certain company or business. 

• boycott
• grievience
• tariff
• nullification 

What law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act 

What law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act 

Who was the first American to be shot and killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre?

• Crispus Attucks
• Bernardo de Galvez
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Haym Salomon

Influenced independence in the colonies. Believed that government was a “social contract” and that the purpose of government was to protect individual freedom and property. 

• John Locke
• Wentworth Cheswell
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

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“

What was the first cause of the American Revolution?

• French and Indian War
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Slavery

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• anything paper: legal documents, dice

• sugar and molasses

• tobacco and sugar

• lead, glass and paint