Unit 5 - American Revolution

The Albany Plan of Union lead by Ben Franklin

• Unite the French colonies against the French

• Create a joint council with English colonists and Native American Indians

• Provide a way for colonists to work together against the Spanish

• Unite English colonists against Native Americans

The historical circumstances that led the British government to issue the Proclamation of 1763, which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, was

• The need to avoid conflicts with Native American Indians

• The desire to reduce casualties during the French and Indian War

• The way to maintain markets for British manufactured goods

• The need to promote easy collection of new taxes

Colonists resented (disliked) the Tea Act because

•     It established a monopoly on tea

•   It lowered the price of tea

• It was a form of taxation without representation.

• a.      It forced tea to be shipped from India to Britain

What was a result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution?

• The British lost most of their colonies in the Americas.

• French colonies expanded west of the Appalachians.

• Native American Indians were given lands west of the Appalachians.

• England decided to make the American colonists help pay war debts through taxes

“…give me liberty or give me death!”

 

“A government of our own is our natural right…”

 

“We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

1During the period of the American Revolution, these statements were made by members of which group?

• Redcoats

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Native Americans

What was the historical impact of the Stamp Act (1765) on colonial trade?

• The British refused to sell certain products to the colonists.

• The law led to a decline in the value of colonial currency.

• The colonists no longer needed British goods.

• Many colonists boycotted British goods.

Which statement expresses an opinion about the causes of the Revolutionary War?

•    Colonists participated in triangular trade.

• The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770.

• Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty.

• The Quartering Act was a serious violation of the colonists’ liberties.

The British system of mercantilism was designed to

•     close Boston Harbor to trade

• encourage trade outside the British Empire

•    prevent local elections in the thirteen colonies

•   favor the economic interests of Great Britain

The slogan “No taxation without representation” referred to taxes enacted by

•   colonial legislators

• town meetings

• the English Parliament

•   the First Continental Congress

Which statement is most consistent with the views of Loyalists in the 1770s?

• The colonists should be grateful to be under British rule and protection.

• Taxation without representation is tyranny.

• Citizens, under British rule, have the right to declare independence.

• The king is violating the rights of British citizens.