US History Summer School Quiz #6

What prohibited American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War?

• Pontiac Rebellion

• Smallpox Outbreak

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Proclamation Line of 1763

What was NOT indicated as a contributing factor to the creating the American identity?

• Distance from Great Britain

• Salutary Neglect

• Enlightenment Era

• Dislike for the Native Americans

Where did the American Colonists want representation?

• British Cabinet

• American Congress

• Albany Plan of Union

• British Parliament

Why were the British Parliament passing Acts to tax the American Colonists?

• The new British Prime Minister liked passing Acts in the British Parlaiment.

• The American Colonists had promised to repay the British for the French and Indian War.

• British Parliament was jealous of the American colonists.

• Great Britain was in debt after the French and Indian War.

Who coined the phrase "No Taxation without Representation"?

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Benjamin Franklin

• James Otis

What Act was passed that required local legislatures to provide British soldiers with a stipend, housing and food?

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

A series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the British colonies in America?

• Intolerable Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Massachusetts Circular Letter

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

What was the name of the first person to be killed in the American Revolution?

• George Washington

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Crispus Attucks

Who represented the British soliders in court after the Boston Massacre?

• George Washington

• James Otis

• Samuel Adams

• John Adams