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 law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act 

What is the name of the act that the British passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid?

• The Quartering Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts

According to the Declaration of Independence, what are the inalienable rights?

• Laws of nature
• Life, liberty, and equality
• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• separate and equal stations

The Revolutionary War officially began after which event?

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Battles of Lexington & Concord

• The meeting of the First Continental Congress

The term confederacy means...

• a form of government where one person or group has all the power

• a form of government where there is a king or queen

• a form of government that contains city-states

• a form of government where many parts are joined together or unified

The primary reason the Iroquois formed a confederacy was to

• improve trade

• hunt more efficiently

• promote peace

• improve travel

Which task was completed by the clan mothers?

• Hunting

• Warfare

• Fishing

• Electing chiefs

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The main job of the Great Council was to

• organize religious festivials

• decide the guilt or innocence of an accused person

• make laws for the confederacy

• perform marriage ceremonies

Clan mothers had the ability to remove elected sachems from being chief if they performed poorly. This is an example of

• representative democracy

• checks and balances

• federalism

• habeus corpus