9/8/22 Fun Friday Review

What is the economic belief exists to increase a country's wealth through its exports

• Mercantilism

• revolution

• globalism

• conservatism

In response to actions in the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain passed the Intolerable Acts. These acts closed the port of Boston and replaced the colonial government with a royal governor. Colonists were also forced to ____________. As a result, the colonists convened the ____________.

• quarter troops/Second Continental Congress

• 
  import British goods/Hartford Convention

• quarter troops/First Continental Congress

• pay new taxes/Albany Convention

What was the MAIN purpose of boycotts in colonial America?

• to protest taxation without representation

• to disrupt trade with foreign nations

• to prove the effectiveness of home rule

• to decrease the power of English merchants

The first permanent English settlement in North America was —

• Vinland

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• St. Augustine

The FIRST governing document for the Pilgrims in America was the —

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is important because it —

• was the first written constitution in North America

• served as a legislative model for the U.S. Congress

• banned protest demonstrations against the English king

• established the largest colonial military unit in the Revolutionary War

Which of the following was the colonies' first effort at a democratic-styled parliament?

• the Virginia House of Burgesses

• the Georgia State Senate

• the Maryland Town Hall

• the New York Legislature

What was the earliest form of taxation without representation that was enforced by the British Parliament in the colonies?

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

Prior to the American Revolution, the British Parliament felt it was appropriate to tax the colonists to help pay the expenses they had run up while fighting a war. What war was it?

• Spanish Armada

• Indian attacks in the South

• French and Indian War

• Loyalists