APUSH P3 CQ #1 3.2-3.6

The Stamp Act of 1765 was primarily passed to

• Strengthen the lines of communication within the colonies

• Raise funds for British military operations in the colonies

• Regulate trade between the colonies and other European nations

• Punish colonists for their activism and protests against the King of England

The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

• led to the British imposing taxes on the colonies to help pay off war debt

• resulted in a resounding victory for the French, assuring their control of land west of the Mississipi

• was a minor conflict, limited to a few small regions of North America

• ended in British victory, allowing colonists to settle in lands west of the Appalachians

The Proclamation of 1763

• sought to prevent conflicts with American Indians on the colonial frontier by limiting colonial expansion

• divided western territories into future royal colonies

• levied new taxes on the North American colonists in order to pay for costly wars with the French and Natives

• Sought to earn money for the crown by offering lands west of the Appalachians for sale to colonists

The Tea Act

• made tea exceedingly expensive for the colonists, leading to popular resentment

• angered some colonists because it was a form of taxation without representation, even though it resulted in cheaper tea

• was a compromise between the British and Colonial governments meant to avoid increasing tensions

• was primarily meant to raise funds for the British government in order to pay off war debts.

The Coercive (Intolerable) acts

• punished Massachusetts for its role in protests and boycotts, in turn leading to the formation of the continental congress

• were initially meant to raise funds to help support the payment of British war debts

• Greatly restricted both the economic rights and personal freedoms of all North American colonists

• was met with universal opposition from North American colonists

The Battle of Saratoga

• showed the American Colonists they had a chance of winning, inspiring the Congress to write and sign the Declaration of Independence

• was a disatorous defeat for the American colonists early on in the Revolutionary War

• was the final battle of the American Revolution. Afterwards the British signed the Treaty of Paris

• was followed by a treaty between the French and the American Colonists

The French allied with the colonists

• because they were the colonists' main trading partners

• to help bring an end to the international slave trade, which French leadership strongly opposed

• mainly to weaken the British Empire

• in order to promote democracy and free forms of government globally

Loyalists were

• British soldiers who continued to fight against the colonists even after the Americans were victorious

• American colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain before, during, and after the war

• American Colonists who pledged loyalty to the new United States of America at the start of the war

• British soldiers who had lived in the colonies for years and secretly helped the colonial cause

Which of the following contributed the most to American victory in the Revolutionary War?

• French Military and Financial Assistance

• A major American victory at Valley Forge

• Failure of Loyalists to participate effectively in the war

• British failure to capture New York City

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked

• France for its failure to support the colonial war effort

• Parliament for its continued opposition to the King of England

• The king of England and the principle of monarchy

• The authors of the Declaration of Independence