Revolutionary Era

Which action was taken by the leaders of the thirteen colonies in 1776?

• Ratifying the U.S. Constitution

• Establishing three branches of government

• Writing the Articles of Confederation

• Announcing independence from Britain

The distance from Britain and the size of the British Empire was an advantage for the colonies. It was expensive to send British troops to the colonies. For many years, the British government’s philosophy was one of “salutary neglect.” This meant that they would pass laws to regulate trade in the colonies, but they did not do much to enforce them. The British knew that the colonies were benefiting from goods from the Dutch, French, and Spanish, however. Eventually, in 1763, they began to enforce many of the trade restrictions and even passed new ones.

—Independence Hall Association, On The Declaration
http://www.ushistory.org (accessed July 23, 2014

Based on the information in the excerpt the colonists had been violating what British policy for some time?

• Intolerable Acts

• Free enterprise

• Mercantilism

• Stamp Act

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to tensions between colonists and Great Britain?

• It replaced colonial legislatures with royal governors chosen by the King.

• It limited colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

• It required all colonial goods to be sold directly to Great Britain.

• It imposed taxes without colonial representation in Parliament.

Which of the following British actions led the American colonists to claim that taxes were imposed without their consent?

• Enforcement of the Quartering Act

• Administration of the Quebec Act

• Creation of the Intolerable Acts

• Passage of the Stamp Act

The British began imposing taxes on the colonists in 1765 to help pay the expenses of fighting the —

• French and Indian War

• Battle of Tippecanoe

• American Revolution

• Spanish Armada

James Armistead helped to contribute to the American victory at Yorktown by —

• donating significant amounts of money to help fund the Patriots

• encouraging soldiers to re-enlist after the winter at Valley Forge

• passing along information he had discovered while spying

• leading an elite regiment of French soldiers at the battle

How did French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette contribute to the American Revolutionary War?

• He provided funding from the French government for the colonists.

• He commanded troops for the colonists against British forces.

• He negotiated the Treaty of Paris on behalf of the colonists.

• He spied on British troops for the colonists.

Why would the writings of Mercy Otis Warren be informative to a historian?

• She published the first novel set in colonial America.

• She recorded the proceeding at the Boston Massacre trial.

• She contributed to the writing of the Declaration of Independence

• She authored one of the earliest accounts of the Revolutionary War.

Many individuals contributed to the revolutionary cause, though the first to give his life to the cause was —

• James Armistead

• Crispus Attucks

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Haym Salomon

Thomas Paine contributed to the revolutionary cause by —

• founding a navy to fight in the Revolutionary war

• writing “Common Sense” to persuade others to join the Patriots

• speaking out against the Stamp Act in his “Give Me Liberty” speech

• recruiting Patriot fighters in New England known as the Green Mountain Boys