US1 Midterm-Part 2 (Covering Units 1 and 2)

The French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris

• Laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

• Inspired slaves to lead a brutal rebellion against plantation owners.

• Encouraged the development of political parties.

• Promoted conflict between wealthy elites and poor farmers.

The main reason Great Britain established the Proclamation Line of 1763 was to

• Avoid conflicts between American colonist and Native American Indians

• Make a profit by selling the land west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Prevent American industrial development in the Ohio River valley

• Allow Canada to control the Great Lakes region

I. _______________________________

a. Committees of Correspondence

b. The Sons of Liberty

c. Boston Tea Party

d. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Which heading best completes the partial outline above?

• Protests Against Slavery in the American Colonies

• British Parliamentary Actions to Punish Colonial Americans

• Colonial Responses to British Mercantile Policies

• Colonist Attempts to End the British rule in the Colonies

“. . . Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’TIS TIME TO PART. . . .”

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s quote contributed most directly to which of the following trends?

• The growth of the ideology of a socialist government

• Greater independence from Great Britain

• Movement to prohibit alcohol in the Colonies

• The inclusion of religion in Colonial government

“. . . Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’TIS TIME TO PART. . . .”

Thomas Paine

Which of the following developments is best represented by the continuation of ideas expressed in the Thomas Paine quote?

• American Civil War

• War of 1812

• American Revolution

• Shay’s Rebellion

What group helped write the Declaration of Independence?

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committee of Five

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

The ideas expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the excerpt were most similar to those of which enlightenment thinker

• Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature

• Thomas Paine and Common Sense

• John Locke’s theory of natural rights

• Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto

How did Benjamin Franklin and John Adams impact the American Revolution?

• Spanish Ambassadors that asked Spain to help the Colonist in the American Revolution

• British Ambassadors that asked Britain to help the Colonist in the American Revolution

• French Ambassadors that asked France to help the Colonist in the American Revolution

• German Ambassadors that asked Germany to help the Colonist in the American Revolution

What was the significance of the Intolerable Acts?

• The act required a tax on all paper goods in the colonies

• Closed the Port of Boston and made quartering of troops legal

• The act required a tax on tea in the colonies

• A series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea

What role did George Washington play in the American Revolution

• President

• Commander of the Continental Army

• Ambassador to King George

• Commander of the Red Coat Army'