2.2 quiz

Colonist B is a wealthy woman from New York City. Her husband’s business earns tremendous wealth and honor for the family. She frequently claims to be related to several members of the House of Lords in the British Parliament. She worries about the amount of violence being committed by mobs of men called the Sons of Liberty. She and her husband fear that their wealth and their connections to Britain may cause them to be targets of the mob.

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Neutral

Reorder the following

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

At the Second Continental Congress, the ________________________ was written.

What is salutary neglect?

• The British forgot that the American Colonies even existed

• British enforced laws heavily on the American Colonists

• the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade

• economic philosophy used for the French and Indian War

What was the impact of salutary neglect on the colonists?

• Parliament gave exclusive rights to selling tea in the colonies to the British East India Company

• Execution of the Boston Tea Party, in which the Sons of Liberty threw tea overboard in the Boston Harbor

• British Parliament raising taxes on the colonists such as the Stamp Act to pay for war debts

What was the major philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

• The need for a federal system of government

• if the government does not protect the safety and happiness of it's citizens, it can be replaced

• support the states' rights to determine independent economic decisions and laws

• a belief in the benefits of a laissez-faire economy in which the government has little involvement

Match the following Enlightenment Ideals with their definition

• Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness

• Natural Rights

• popular sovereignty

• social contract

• citizens elect leader

• Republicanism

• give up freedoms for protection

• consent of the governed