Road to the Revolution

The Proclamation Line of 1763 led to disagreement between the colonists and the British government because it —

• prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• offered all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to British nobles

• banned colonial trading with the American Indians

• surrendered control of the Great Lakes region to Canada

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 

In the decade following the French and Indian War, many American colonists believed that new British taxes were unfair because —

• tax rates were higher in some colonies than in others

• colonists were asked to pay higher taxes than those paid by people in England

• American colonists lacked representation in Parliament

• landowners paid higher taxes than merchants active in trade

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Colonists sought military support from France.

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• The recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

In the American colonies, boycotts were an effective way of protesting British policies mainly because the boycotts -

• ended trade within the colonies

• kept out products from other European nations

• forced Britain to remove most troops

• caused economic hardships for British merchants

In the 1760s, Americans in the original thirteen British colonies began to protest against

• efforts by the king to extend voting rights to women

• laws passed by the British Parliament regulating colonial trade

• limits placed on land ownership by royal governors

• decisions of British authorities to end immigration to the colonies

The French and Indian War was a turning point in the relationship between American colonists and the British government because the war -

• increased French influence in North America

• ended Native American Indian attacks west of the Appalachian Mountains

• resulted in British debt and attempts to tax colonists

• created an alliance with Canada against the British