Chapter 7 Quiz - Jakub

Elected leaders chosen by the British to speak for the part of the government - they passed the laws for all British people.

• parliament

• self-government

• democracy

Government in which people get take part.

• parliament

• self-government

• democracy

First colonial legislature: __________ - It was started in the Virginia colony.​ ​

• House of Burgesses
• Virginia

• Sons of Liberty

Money paid to the government is called __________.

• loans

• taxes

• stamps

The order of the __________ reserved western lands as "hunting grounds."

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

The Parliament decided that the payment to be made for the French and Indian War was a law called the ____________.

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

The extra money they paid was a ____________, or a tax.

Colonists who supported the actions of the British government were known as Tories, or __________.

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• Treason

The Sugar Act angered many colonists because it required them to pay a ______________, or tax, on goods brought into the colonies.

• tariff

• income

• percent

Almost everything ____________ or ____________ on paper had to have a special stamp to show the tax had been paid (choose 2).

• written

• baked

• printed

• shipped