Ch 4 Lesson 3: Disagreements with Great Britain

In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson showed that he was greatly influenced by the ideas and writings of the Enlightenment thinker ​ (a)   .

• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• smuggling
• split with Great Britain

The Declaration of Independence draws upon the ideas of Enlightenment thinker ​ (a)   , who wrote that if a government did not protect its people's freedoms, it should not exist.

• Jean-Jaques Rosseau
• John Locke
• smuggling
• split with Great Britain

One of the Townshend Acts allowed British officials to issue search warrants in an effort to combat ​ (a)   , which is the act of illegally moving goods in or out of a country.

• smuggling
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacque Rosseau
• split from Great Britain

The Second Continental Congress had to decide whether to continue working toward peace or to ​ (a)  

• split with Great Britain
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacque Rosseau
• smuggling

Following the French and Indian War, King George issued a ​ (a)   forbidding colonists from settling in lands won from France.

• proclamation
• boycott
• Declaratory Act
• duty

The colonists responded to the Stamp Act by

• boycotting British goods.

• boycotting stamps.

• purchasing enough stamps to create a shortage.

• taxing British goods.

The Coercive Acts of 1774 included

• the Quartering Act.

• the Stamp Act

• the Sugar Act

• the Tea Act

One purpose of the First Continental Congress was

• to ask King George to respect the colonists’ rights as British citizens.

• to declare the colonies’ independence from Britain.

• to declare war on Britain.

• to pass laws concerning the colonies.