Week 7 Review

Imagine you are a historian studying the French and Indian War. The correct description of this event is .

• Tax on printed items

• First written constitution

• (1754-1763) It was a war fought in North America between French and British colonies

Proclamation of 1763

• Original 13 colonies of US in 1776

• Sons of Liberty's act of dumping British tea into Boston harbor

• A body that makes laws for a nation

• British proclamation forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

Imagine you are studying the history of North America in 1763. You come across the term 'Pontiac's Rebellion'. What does it refer to?

• A political system where power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by the people.

• An introduction to a new era.

• A list of complaints made against King George III.

• An unsuccessful Indian rebellion led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac against British Indian policy in the Northwest Territory.

No taxation without representation

• 1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
• reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament
• 1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.

Parliament

• Unsuccessful Indian rebellion led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac against British Indian policy in the Northwest Territory.
• A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation
• the right to practice whatever religion one chooses.
• (1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

The Stamp Act was a law passed in 1765 that taxed printed goods.

• True

• False

Townshend Acts (1767)

• Tax on tea, glass, and paper. Passed around the times of the other "Intolerable Acts"
• 1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.
• An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.
• the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint.

Boston Massacre (1770)

• The section declaring the colonies to be free and independent states
• An incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them; five colonists were killed.
• people have to agree to be governed
• Main author of the Declaration of Independence

Boston Tea Party (1773)

• Introduction

• Agreement for governance

• Declaration of Independence in 1776 started a political revolution for balancing power and protecting citizens' rights.

• Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks, dumped British tea into Boston harbor.

Intolerable Acts (1774)

• People are the source of any and all governmental power

• Unsuccessful Indian rebellion led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac against British Indian policy in the Northwest Territory.

• a fight against a government

• Laws passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party to punish Massachusetts colonists. The Boston harbor closed and England took over governmental activities.