8.4A Review

Which of the following was a mercantilist practice that angered American colonists?

• having to pay high duties on foreign sugar and molasses

• banning colonists from fishing or trading in animal furs

• sending large amounts of gold and silver to the colonies from England

• using slaves in Europe to manufacture goods to sell to colonists

How did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolution?

• It forced colonists to relocate to west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• It angered colonists who saw it as an unjustified intrusion into their affairs.

• It forced colonists to accept British and Hessian troops into their homes.

• It imposed a series of new taxes on colonial merchants.

How did the British government react to growing protests against their policies by American

colonists?

• It offered to grant independence to the American colonists.

• It sent additional British soldiers and enacted new colonial tax measures.

• It arranged to grant American colonists a voice in the British Parliament.

• It removed all British soldiers stationed in the American colonies

A famous slogan, popular during the American Revolution, was: “No taxation without representation.”

This slogan referred to taxes enacted by —

• New England town meetings

• colonial assemblies of the thirteen colonies

• the Parliament of Great Britain

• the First Continental Congress