Road to Revolution- EXAM(2)

Why did Parliament choose to raise taxes on the American colonies beginning in 1763?

• To build a new home for the Royal Governor

• To buy a surplus of rice and indigo

• To help pay the French and Indian War Debt

• To increase subsidies to Indigo plantation owners

What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?

• A response to the Boston Tea Party

• To put a duty on lead, paint, and tea

• Prevent smuggling of French goods

• To allow colonists to move into the Cherokee Territory

Which of the following correctly identifies the sides during the French & Indian War?

• Spanish, French and Indians against the British

• French and Indians against British

• British against the Cherokee

• French against the Indians

How did the colonists plan to address the problem of the Intolerable Acts?

• They begged the king for forgiveness

• They asked Parliament to rewrite the document

• Sent delegates to the Continental Congress

• They attacked British forts and began a war

A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Continental Congress

• Sugar Act

This struggle between the British and the French in the colonies of North America was part of a worldwide war known as the Seven Years' War

• Boston Massacre

• War of 1812

• American Revolution

• French and Indian War

To refuse to buy products, goods or use the services of a merchant or country

• Smuggle

• Mercantilism

• Boycott

• Monopoly

A tax on imported goods, also known as a tariff

• Repeal

• Duty

• Boycott

• Monopoly

What did the Tea Act create?

• A law against exporting tea to the Caribbean.

• An alliance of the colonists with Asian tea markets

• A monopoly on tea sales to the colonists through the British East India Company

• Tax on imported tea that the colonists paid weekly

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising 

• Cotton

• Maize

• Tabaco

• Wheat