CA 3 Review

What was the MAIN reason for the establishment of the 13 English Colonies?

• Political unrest 
• Religious changes in Europe
• Social differences in Europe
• Economic conditions in Europe

Early colonial Maryland was predominately home to Catholics, while colonial Pennsylvania was home to —

• angelicans
• quakers
• puritans
• mormans

What condition contributed to the development of representative government
in the American colonies?

• fur trade

• gold trade

• Long Distance between them

• American Indians

In order to punish the colonists and re-establish their allegiance to the King after throwing a large shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor, Parliament enacted the -

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

British troops attempted to seize a supply of ammunition in April of 1775, but they were met with colonial militiamen who were alerted by Paul Revere. What battle occurred because of this action?

• Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Washington

• Siege of Fort Ticonderoga

The tax laws imposed on the colonists by the British government were viewed as unfair and created support for declaring independence because -

• British merchants were taxed at a higher rate than colonial merchants

• Parliament passed the laws to deregulate the trade of imports

• the laws only applied to those foreign subjects of the British crown

• colonists were taxed without direct representation in Parliament

Military Leader of the continental army?

• George Washington

• Paul Revere

• John Hancock

• John Paul Jones

An inventor,author,and an Enlightened Thinker.Assisted the colonists in gaining France as an ally during the American Revolution.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washignton

• Haym Salomon

Author of the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• Paul Revere

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Famous for saying,"Give me liberty,or give me death!" in a speech urging Virginia to join the war against Great Britain.

• Patrick Henry

• John Hancock

• John Adams

• George Washington