American Revolution

Sugar Act

Quartering Act

Stamp Act

These acts contributed to the start of the American Revolution by...

• Restricting colonial trade with American Indians

• Angering colonists because they were being taxed with out their consent

• Punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament.

• Imposing regulations on colonial agriculture.

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they...

• Feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians.

• Resented the limits it imposed on Westward Expansion.

• Did not want to share control of the fur trade with France.

• Wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations.

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.

• Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.

• The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.

• British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.

Unalienable Rights:Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

The rights listed above were -

• established by a series of Supreme Court decisions.

• defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

• established by the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

• defined by President George Washington in his Farewell Address.

The American colonists used the slogan, "No taxation without representation," to express their belief in the need for -

• economic interdependence

• the consent of the governed

• mercantilism

• Parliamentary supremacy

"Common Sense" was written so that the common man, or the American Colonists, would support the Declaration of Independence. Who was the author?

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Which action by the colonists could be categorized as an act of Civil Disobedience?

• firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Mass.

• Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France

• Colonists throwing British Tea into Boston Harbor

• Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the Colonists from moving past what natural barrier?

• Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Appalachian Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

In order to punish the colonists and re-establish their allegiance to the King after throwing a large shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor, Parliament enacted the -

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

In March of 1770, a group of redcoats were jeered and taunted by restless colonists. The redcoats retaliated by firing at the colonists, killing five. The event became known as the -

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Boston Massacre

• Declaratory Act

• Battle of Lexington and Concord