Unit 1 Colonization to American Revolution

In America, the Seven Years' War is also know as this.

• the American Revolution

• the War of Austrian Succession

• King George's War

• the French and Indian War

How did the British decide to pay for the war?

• Taxing the Colonials

• Selling ships to Spain

• Asking Germany to loan them money

• Printing more money

Answer explanation

The British began to Tax the colonials. The colonies did not like this because they felt that they already contributed enough soldiers and supplies to the war effort.

Colonists who supported Great Britain during the Revolutionary War

• Sons and Daughters of Liberty

• Revolutionaries

• Loyalists

• Unionists

Who did the British fight to control land in North America?

• Ukraine

• Russia

• Iran

• French

What was the name of the war that started the American Revolution?

• British Parliament

• The French and Indian War

• Lexington and Concord

• The Civil War

What was the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War?

• Treaty of Canada

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of the Colonies

• Treaty of Lexington

Why did the British put a tax on paper materials in the colonies?

• The British did not like the colonists

• The British would use that money to buy weapons

• King George needed money to pay the soldiers

• The British were in debt because of the war

Match the following

•  A law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by

• Sons and Daughters of Liberty

• Movement of American women during the Revolutionary War to boycott British clothing and materials,

• Consent of the Governed

•   Organizations formed to protest Parliamentary law and boycott British goods

• Boston Tea Party

• a political protest in 1773 where colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest taxes

• Homespun Movement

• a government's legitimacy t to use state power is only justified when the governed people consent

• Sugar Act

Designed to make an example of Massachusetts and hopefully control the growing resistance throughout to British authority. Instead of breaking Massachusetts, the laws caused the other colonies to go against the British government.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

• Homespun Movement

Who were the countries involved in the french and Indian War?

• Germany and Spain

• Britain and France

• America and Britain