Unit 3 Remediation Quiz

What did the Proclamation of 1763 stop colonists from doing?

• Drinking tea

• Moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Trading with Great Britain

• Quartering British Soldiers

Which law taxed goods like legal documents, wills, newspapers, playing cards, etc.?

• Navigation Acts

• Stamp Act

• Pamphlet Act

• Townshend Acts

Which act made colonists give food & drinks to British soldiers and allowed them to live in their homes?

• Stamp Act

• Massachusetts Government Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Act

Why did Britain pass taxes in the colonies?

• They wanted to buy more gold

• To punish the colonists for disobeying laws

• The King needed new clothes

• To pay off debts from the French & Indian War

Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence best supports the main purpose of a nation's government?

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all mean are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

• ...[G}overnments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath show, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

• ...[A]s free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

• ...[To] secure these rights , governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

The passage below comes from the Declaration of Independence (1776).  “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures….”  Which section of the Declaration contained this passage?

• Its theory of government based on social contract

• Its list of colonial grievances

• Its announcement of American Independence from Britain

• Its justification of the conduct of the colonists

The reference to the natural rights of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence was clearly inspired by the ideas of  ______. 

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Which colonial grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence was first seen in the Magna Carta?

• "For cutting off trade with all parts of the world"

• "for depriving us, in many cases, the benefit of trial by jury"

• "he has dissolved representative houses repeatedly"

• "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people"

Which statement best describes the role of government according to the Declaration of Independence?

• “The main purpose of government is to promote the general welfare of the community by taking steps toward social equality.”

• “The main purpose of government is to protect the rights and privileges of His Majesty, the King.”

• “The main purpose of government is to protect the unalienable rights of individuals.

• “The main purpose of government is to expand the glorify the state.”

Under the Articles of Confederation, this number of states had to agree for laws to be passed.

• 7

• 9

• 13

• 27