8th SS STAAR - Causes of the American Revolution

All the events listed above occurred during -

• the era of westward expansion

• the Era of Good Feelings

• the Revolutionary era

• the Jacksonian era

Answer explanation

These events occurred during the American Revolution.

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How did the American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?

• By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor

• By sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

• By placing a tax on all goods imported from Britain

• By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Answer explanation

The colonies were furious about the Intolerable Acts passed by Britain and held the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance against Britain.

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How did the American colonists IMMEDIATELY respond to the 1774 laws described in these headlines?

• The First Continental Congress declared war on Great Britain

• The colonists adopted the Articles of Confederation

• The First Continental Congress sent a list of grievances to King George III

• The colonists adopted the Bill of Rights

Answer explanation

After the Intolerable Acts were passed, the colonists sent a list of grievances (complaints) to the King of Britain.

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Which statement best explains why this resolution was adopted?

• Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party

• Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre

• Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament

• Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III

Answer explanation

Virginia was opposed to the tax laws being passed by British Parliament.

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What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

Answer explanation

The British government needed money after the French and Indian War in America, so they taxes the American colonists.

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How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

Answer explanation

Mercantilist policies of Britain did not allow the colonists to trade with other countries - they could only trade with Britain.

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Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Colonists sought military support from France

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

Answer explanation

After the Stamp Act tax on all paper goods, the American colonists boycotted British goods.

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These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by -

• restricting colonial trade with American Indians

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

Answer explanation

The Sugar Act and Stamp Act were taxes on the American Colonies and the Quartering Act allowed British soldiers to live in American colonists' homes. They felt their rights were being violated.

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The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the -

• political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain following the French and Indian War

Answer explanation

The Sons of Liberty wanted independence from Britain's rule. They were upset over the taxes placed on Americans after the French & Indian War.

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British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they -

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

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

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

Answer explanation

The Proclamation of 1763 blocked American colonists from moving west past the Appalachian Mountains.

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