American Revolution

Match the following

• English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations over the colonies that led to the developm

• Salutary neglect

• Natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Inalienable rights

• a system of government whose head of state is not a monarch and the people elect representatives to

• French and Indian War

• ends salutary neglect; England defeats the French in colonial North America

• Mercantilism

• an economic and political policy in which the government  regulates the industries, trade, and comme

• Representative government

Match the following

• Colonists expressed grievances to King George III

• First Continental Congress

• Power of British Parliament to have complete control over the Colonies

• Declaratory Act

• Clash between colonists and British soldiers

• Second Continental Congress

• Organized the colonial army and wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Boston Massacre

Match the following

• Author of political pamphlets during the 1770’s and 1780’s; wrote Common Sense in 1776.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Colonial inventor, printer, writer, statesman; contributed to the Declaration of Independence and Co

• George Washington

• Commander in Chief of the American Army

• Thomas Paine

• Author of the Declaration of Independence.

• Ben Franklin

The French and Indian War was fought between which two European Empires?

• England and Spain

• France and Portugal

• England and France

• Russia and Poland

The French and Indian War was fought over which geographic feature?

• The Appalachian Mountains

• The Ohio River Valley

• Boston Harbor

• The Mississippi River

The Sugar Act brought about which protest slogan?

• Tea and cake or death

• No taxation without representation

• Join or Die

• Give me liberty or give me death

How were the Colonists' rights violated by the Sugar Act?

• No due process was given.

• No representation in Congress

• No longer had the right to vote for President

• No longer could own land

What was the significance of the Stamp Act on individual Colonists?

• This act earned the colonists representation in Parliament

• This Act brought about the French and Indian War

• This act is the first time Parlement directly taxed the colonists

• The colonists agreed to pay the tax and end the Revolution.

The Intolerable Acts are also known as

• The Stamp Acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Mercantilists Acts

• The French and Indian War

What was the first battle of the American Revolution

• Battle of Yorktown

• The Battle of Massachusetts

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Saratoga