STAAR Review - Causes of the American Revolution

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 aide

• by placing a tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

• by holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

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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

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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 is 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

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Reorder the following in order that they occurred

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

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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

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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

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Which of the following best completes the 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

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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

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The excerpt 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

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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

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