causes of the american revolution review

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 made the settlers angry in part because it

• gave most of the Ohio Valley to the French and Spanish.
• gave the land west of the Appalachians to the Native Americans.

What happened as a result of the French and Indian War?

• The colonists were no longer ruled by the British.
• France gave up all of its land in what is now the United States.

After the British won the French and Indian War, the land west of the Appalachian Mountains now belonged to the British.  Many colonists decided to move to this land and settle there.  The British reacted by pass a law that

• required all settlers to move west.
• gave all the new land to the colonists.
• made it illegal for settlers to move west.

The Intolerable Acts was an American term for the laws enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to which of the following events?

• Thomas Paine's Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party

What was the name of the new tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used?

• Boston Port Bill
• Stamp Act
• Quebec Act

The Boston Tea Party, the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, was the colonists' opposition to which of the following?

• Intolerable Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act

The Revolutionary War came about because the American colonists did not feel the British were treating them fairly.  For example, they felt strongly that accused criminals should have a right to 

• choose where they serve prison time.
• pay taxes like ordinary citizens.
• a court trial that includes a jury.

How did the development of colonial governments lead to the American Revolution?

• People in the colonies wanted to get rid of government altogether.
• People in the colonies became more supportive of the British Parliament.
• People in the colonies no longer wanted to be ruled by the British Parliament.

This law made it illegal for colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Treaty of Paris of 1763
• Royal Proclamation of 1763
• French and Indian War

"Taxation without representation" was a major reason colonists wanted to be free from Great Britain?

• True
• False