Mini-Test Days 1-5

What contributed to the tensions between France and the British? Select two correct answers.

• British parliament tried to forcibly remove the French from North America.
• The French argued that they controlled the Ohio River Valley, not the British.
• The Ohio River Valley had abundant resources that both countries wanted to control.
• Native Americans sided with the British due to their trade relationship.

Determine which acts imposed on the colonists by the British are being described.

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(a) Sugar Act

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(b) Declaratory Act

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(c) Townshend Act

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(d) Stamp Act

• Tax on lead, paper, paint, tea, and glass

• Lowered tax, but officers took smugglers’ goods without going to court

• Parliament had right to tax colonists

• Tax on all paper products

Why did “no taxation without representation" become the rally cry for colonists?

• it explain how the events transpired from the colonists point of view
• used to provoke King George III to declare war
• to persuade colonists that King George was fair and they should be loyal
• the Colonists believed in a “consent of the governed” or that the British should allow them a voice on issues happening in the colonies.

Organize these options into the right categories

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(a) Intolerable Acts

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(b) Proclamation Line of 1763

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(c) Treaty of Paris of1763

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(d) Albany Plan of Union

• Law created by King George III in attempt to control the colonists protests

• The French gave Britain control over the Ohio River Battle,

• This line forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Benjamin Franklin suggested that the colonies join together against the French

One result of the French and Indian War was that the -

• Natives began to prosper economically
• British issued taxes on the colonists to help pay for the war debt
• colonists were able to expand into the Ohio River Valley
• French were executed for their failure to defeat the British

Organize these options into the right categories

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(a) Mercy Otis Warren

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(b) Crispus Attucks

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(c) Abigail Adams

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(d) Paul Revere

• Wrote about the Boston Massacre to get other colonists to hate Britain

• Wrote about the patriot cause and women’s rights

• First colonist killed in the Boston Massacre

• Wrote propaganda against the British

How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries
• 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

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Samuel Adams

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(b) Sons of Liberty

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(c) Committee of Correspondence

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(d) boycott

• The act of not buying, making, or using a product to protest against its organization

• Used acts of civil disobedience to protest taxation

• Group formed by Samuel Adams to protest against Britain

• Group dedicated to informing the other colonies about the Boston Massacre and other events

The Intolerable Acts led to the American Revolutionary War because -

• Britain declared it would use force to make colonists pay taxes
• the colonists could no longer tolerate any more laws that took away their liberties
• it authorized the arrest of Samuel Adams, a hero to the colonists
• King George III would no longer tolerate the colonist’s civil disobedience

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) mercantilism

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(b) writs of assistance

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(c) propaganda

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(d) civil disobedience

• Misleading information used to promote a political cause or point of view

• British control of raw materials from the colonies to sell to other countries for profit

• Protesting peacefully to make a point or stand against something

• 1967 law that allowed British officers to search any location for smuggled goods