Chapter 5 Review MVE 5th

The Proclamation of 1763 restricted...

• colonists from moving back to Great Britain

• the western movement of settlers

• the control of colonial legislature

• the amount of tea imported from Europe

What significant event happened at the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

• Colonists were shot after taunting British soldiers.

• These were the first armed conflicts of the Revolutionary War.

• Here the French joined the American colonists in fighting the British.

• Nothing happened here.

Why did Great Britain impose taxes such as the Stamp Act?

• To stop colonial representation in Parliament

• To raise money to pay for the French and Indian War

• To stop British citizens from moving to colonial America

• To raise money to buy more land from the American Indians

What colony did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress?

• Georgia

• North Carolina

• New York

• Massachusetts

What Massachusetts man is known for promoting the cause of independence?

• George Washington

• Lord Cornwallis

• Patrick Henry

• John Adams

According to the Declaration of Independence, government derives its power from–

• colonial governors

• the people it governs

• the British king

• colonial legislature

Patrick Henry inspired patriots with his famous speech by saying

• give me liberty or give me death

• no taxation without representation

• Don't tread on me

• If they want a war, let it begin here.

Who was a former enslaved African American who wrote poems and plays supporting American independence?

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglass

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Paul Revere

Key philosophies in the Declaration of Independence were based upon ideas first expressed by European philosophers, such as -

• Thomas Paine

• Lord Cornwallis

• John Locke

• Charles Townshend

What important event occurred at Yorktown?

• the winter at Valley Forge

• The battle that marked the end of the Revolutionary War

• The Boston Tea Party

• the signing of the Declaration of Independence