The French and Indian war was between?

France and England with most Native Americans fighting for France

Why did England impose taxes on the colonies?

Pay off debts owed from the French and Indian War.

Pay for the cost of a new navy.

Build roads to the Ohio River Valley.

Show colonists who was in charge.

Colonists were especially upset with the British government because it did not allow the

colonists to have representation in Parliament

colonial business to support royal taxes

powers of colonial legislatures to increase

laws passed by parliament to govern the colonies

What is mercantilism?

A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

Why was the Committee of Correspondence formed?

It was formed for faster communication between colonies.

It was formed to protest the Tea Act.

It was formed to keep colonists away from the Ohio River Valley.

It was formed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

Militia is the name of Britain's law-making assembly.

A militia is a tax on imported goods.

A militia is a refusal to buy goods.

What was the role of the Committee of Correspondence?

Kept other colonies informed about colonial actions and protest and gained support for the Revolution.

British representatives who kept the King informed about the colonists' actions

It was the newspaper publisher in the colonies

Kept track of trade between the colonies and other countries.

How did the colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre as propaganda?

They created images and engravings making it look as through the blood thirsty redcoats were out to kill innocent colonists.

They wrote articles explaining that the colonists started the confrontation.

They distributed pamphlets urging colonists to be nice to British troops.

They wrote letters persuading the King to get control of his soldiers.

Which of the following was NOT covered under the Coercive/Intolerable Acts of 1774?

British troops ordered to live among the colonists

Close harbor until all tea is paid for from the Boston Tea Party

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

“Give me liberty or give me death”

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

What document officially ended the French & Indian War?

Declaration of Independence, 1776

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?

disputed land claims in the Ohio River valley between the French and the British

conflicts between American colonists and the French over control of the Great Plains

taxation of American colonists without representation in Parliament

violation of trade agreements between European nations and Native American Indians

Which action by the colonists could be categorized as an act of civil disobedience?

Colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor

Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France

Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors

Firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts

What was the goal of the protests and boycotts initiated by the Sons of Liberty?

to hurt the British economically

to negotiate peace between the colonies and British

to establish a colonial-formed government

Why were both Continental Congress held?

To discuss a solution to the colonists’ complaints of Great Britain

To vote for the first president

To decide when to go to war with Great Britain

The "shot heard 'round the world" was which battle?

Battle of Lexington and Concord

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What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

The Battle of Bunker Hill

The Boston Massacre

Battle of Saratoga

Battles of Lexington and Concord

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which series of Acts punished the town of Boston for the Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

Quartering Acts

Stamp Act

Sugar Act

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"No taxation without representation" means?

Colonists shouldn't be taxed if they had no one representing them in Parliament

The representative can tax me

Seize weapons right away

None of the above

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Trained soldiers that were prepared to fire at a minutes notice were which of the following?

Redcoats

British soldiers

Minutemen

None of the above

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_______ was when the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

Quartering Act

Boston Massacre

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_______ taxed all legal documents such as books, pamphlets, newspapers, and deck of cards

Stamp Act

Boston Tea Party

Quartering Act

Boston Massacre

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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_______ was an incident where British soldiers panicked and shot and killed five colonists in Boston.

Stamp Act

Boston Tea Party

Quartering Act

Boston Massacre

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Which series of Acts punished the town of Boston for the Boston Tea Party

"No taxation without representation" means?

Trained soldiers that were prepared to fire at a minutes notice were which of the following?

_______ was when the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

_______ taxed all legal documents such as books, pamphlets, newspapers, and deck of cards

_______ was an incident where British soldiers panicked and shot and killed five colonists in Boston.

_______ forced colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops.

__________ was a refusal to buy goods in protest.

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