Unit Test Review- Pre Revolutionary War

Which describe the life of an indentured servant in colonial times?

Choose all answers that are correct.

• viewed as someone's property for life

• spent evenings reading or entertaining guests

• had to do whatever jobs were assigned

• legally bound to employer for a set amount of time

Which term describes the system of trade by which slaves were brought from Africa to the Americas?

• triangular trade

• transpacific trade

• mutual trade

• indentured trade

Which item did the Stamp Act say that the colonists were supposed to buy a British stamp for?

• every sheet of newspaper

• every document

• every playing card

• all of the above

Who became king of England toward the end of the French and Indian War in 1760?

• George III

• Richard

• William

• John

Which describes the major cause of the French and Indian War?

• disagreements between the French and British over land claims and the fur trade

• arguments about the rights of Indians in French North America

• arguments about the prices Indians were paid for the furs they trapped for the British

• disagreements between the French and the Indians over how to use the land and who owns the land

Which was a problem for Britain after the French and Indian War?

• keeping colonists from going farther west into Indian lands

• regaining land the French won during the war

• collecting taxes from colonists who bought land in the west

• convincing colonists to go west to find farm land

In which conflict were five colonists killed by British soldiers?

• Paul Revere's Ride

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

Which Patriot started "committees of correspondence" to keep the colonies talking to each other before and during the American Revolution?

• Paul Revere

• John Hancock

• John Adams

• Sam Adams

Which Boston lawyer defended the British soldiers put on trial after the Boston Massacre?

• Sam Adams

• John Hancock

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

The American colonists felt that THIS was a violation of their civil liberties because they had no representation in British Parliament

• Taxation

• Dress Code

• No Free Speech

• Laws