Causes of the Revolution

The Proclamation of 1763 was passed as a result of

• Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Indian raids on the frontier

• The beginning of the French and Indian War

• The Indians deserting the Ohio River valley and the British government being pressured to distribute the open land.

The Daughters of Liberty

• Spied on British troops

• Organized boycotts of British goods and made goods for the American soldiers

• Were a group of Loyalist women who spoke out against the Revolution

• Group of women who followed troops around and provided aid on the battlefield

British troops marched to Concord, in April of 1775 to

• find the rebel leader Paul Revere and arrest him.

• suppress the violent mobs of militia fighters that were hanging loyalists.

• seize colonial arms and ammunition that were being stored there.

The main reason that colonists objected to the Tea Act of 1773 because it

• Made tea not taste as good in the colonies.

• Was thought unfair to tax a product that the poor couldn’t use.

• Granted a monopoly to the British East India Company.

• Made tea more difficult to obtain.

The Declaration of Independence was most influenced by the ideas of

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• the French Revolution

• Thomas Hobbes

The very first shots of the war between the militia and the British were fired at this Massachusetts town?

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington

• Concord

• Boston

During the Revolutionary War period, Thomas Paine's Common Sense was important because it

• contained a detailed outline for a new form of government.

• described a military plan for the defeat of England.

• argued for the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Declaration.

• convinced many Americans who had been undecided to support idependence.

The vote for independence was unanimous at the Second Continental Congress.

• True because New York abstained from the vote but did not vote no.

• False because New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina all had objections to declaring independence.

Of the following people, who was NOT a member of the Committee of Five?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Livingston

• Ben Franklin

• John Adams

• John Dickinson

Which of the following was NOT part of the Intolerable Acts?

• Boston Harbor was closed

• A military governor was placed in charge of Massachusetts

• A quartering act was imposed on all of the colonies which forced them to house British troops in their homes.

• The Canadian border was extended, thereby taking away from some colonies.