Semester 1 Review US History

The Boston Tea Party clearly demonstrated how

• the angry colonists would turn to rebellion against the new British laws

• much colonists cared for tea

• easily colonists could tell cheap tea from expensive tea

• angry colonists were even before the Boston Massacre

At dawn on April 19, 1775, British soldiers searched for a major colonial weapons storehouse rumored to be located in:

• Boston

• Lexington

• Concord

• Bunker Hill

Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense led many colonial leaders to:

• reject Enlightenment ideas

• challenge British authority

• understand the good sense of monarchy

• agree to be bound by British laws

Why was the idea of taxation without representation so important to the revolutionary cause?

• Colonists believed King George III had violated their rights by taxing them without their consent

• Great Britain would have ended taxation if colonists had kept the peace

• Colonists believed that Great Britain should only tax certain items

• Great Britain only taxed the colonists to force them into war

The winter at Valley Forge was a difficult time for the Continental Army because the army:

• lacked protection and supplies

• began to turn against the Revolution

• had just lost several important battles

• refused to drill and train

What geographic factor drew many settlers to the southern colonies?

• nearness to the Spanish colonies

• fertile land for growing cash crops

• forests for cutting lumber

• nearness to fishing grounds

Which of the following was a factor in the growth of slavery?

• the Navigation Acts

• to increase profit

• an increase in colonial shipbuilding

• the growth of apprentiship

Where was the first battle of the American Revolution fought?

• Valley Forge

• Saratoga

• Lexington

• Yorktown

Many colonists were angered by the Proclamation of 1763 because

• took too much land from Canada

• they were not allowed to move west of the Appalachian Mountains

• they encouraged raids by Native Americans

• it gave Florida to the French

As a result of the First Continental Congress

• the Treaty of Paris was approved

• the Declaration of Rights was drafted and the militia was told to get ready

• colonists agreed to comply with the majority of British rule

• King George agreed to comply with the majority of the colonists' demands