Social Studies Weekly Week 13

What was the effect of the Quartering Act?

• It prevented settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• It allowed for the printing of money in the colonies.

•  It divided the colonies into four districts.

• It forced colonists to provide food and housing for British soldiers.

Most of the Acts of Parliament toward the colonies involved __________.

• quartering troops

• paper

• tea

• taxes

Who is considered the first casualty in the war for independence?

• John Hancock

• John Adams

• Thomas Hutchinson

• Crispus Attucks

The Stamp Act was a tax on __________.

• stamps

• letters to England

• newspapers

• all paper products

Who voted in the elections to choose the members of Parliament?

• only those living in the colonies

• only those living in Great Britain

• only those who were wealthy

• only those with property

What was the role of British Parliament in the colonies?

• to create laws and collect taxes

• to enforce laws and arrest people

• They had no role in the colonies.

•  to ship goods to the colonists

Why did Parliament decide to raise taxes in the American colonies?

• They were just being mean.

• They needed money to improve the American colonies.

• They did not have enough money to pay for the American Revolution.

• They did not have enough money to pay for the French and Indian War.

Why were the British soldiers, known as Regulars, assigned to be in the colonies?

• to protect when the king when he visits

• to protect the other Bristish soldiers

• to protect citizens and help regulate taxes

• to fight the Indians

What was the economic action the colonists took to impact British goods?

• They destroyed goods.

• They organized a boycott.

• They passed a tariff.

• They refused to pay the British Regulars.

A surveyor is a person who ______________________________.

• sits in an office making maps.

• looks outward to the horizon.

• examines and measures land. 

• spends time settling conflict.