Chapter 8 Review

How did Committees of Correspondence help the colonists fight British rule?

• They housed British soldiers

• They voted to declare independence

• They stole British goods

• They spread information quickly

What did the British government do to help pay the costs of the French and Indian War?

• It printed colonial currency

• It forced the colonists to trade only with Britain

• It passed new tax laws for the colonies

• It sold western lands to settlers

When did the British realize that fighting the colonists would not be easy?

• after the battles of Lexington and Concord

• after the Battle of Bunker Hill

• after the Boston Tea Party

• after Congress approved the Declaration of Independence

What is one effect of that the Articles of Confederation had on the new nation?

• The states were held together as a nation during the Revolutionary War

• The power of the states was limited

• Congress was able to collect taxes

• Congress was given the power to control trade

What happened on July 4, 1776, that makes it such an important date in American history?

• The colonists won the American Revolution

• The 13 colonies formed their first united government

• Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence

• The colonists formed the Committee of Correspondence

called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain

• Samuel Adams

• George Washington

• Richard Henry Lee

• Samuel Adams

was the head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation

• John Dickinson

• Thomas Jefferson

• Samuel Adams

• George Washington

organized the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston and was thought by many people to have planned the Boston Tea Party

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• Richard Henry Lee

What was the Proclamation of 1763, and how did the colonists react to it?

Why did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774, and what did it do?