STAAR Review: Revolution

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they...

• Feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians.
• Did not want to share control of the fur trade with France.
• Resented the limits it imposed on Westward Expansion.
• Wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations. 

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.
• Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.
• The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.
• British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.

*Sugar Act
*Quartering Act
*Stamp Act
These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by...

• Restricting colonial trade with American Indians
• Imposing regulations on colonial agriculture.
• Angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated.
• Punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament. 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..."
Declaration of Independence, 1776
This excerpt refers to the rights that people - 

• earn by demonstrating loyalty to their government. 
• receive by becoming citizens of a country.
• have as a result of being human.
• are granted after enlistment in the military.

Which action by the colonists could be categorized as an act of Civil Disobedience?

• Colonists throwing British Tea into Boston Harbor
• Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France
• Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors
• firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Mass.

What event put Britain in debt, so they decided to tax the colonies to pay off this debt?

• French & Indian War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812
• French Revolution 

1^st shots of the American Revolution - Start of the Revolutionary War. “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” 

• Lexington & Concord, MA
• Saratoga, NY
• Valley Forge, PA
• Yorktown, VA

What was salutary neglect?

• Britain was strictly controlling the colonies

• Britain left the colonies to govern themselves

• Britain sent an army to the colonies

• Britain sold the colonies to France

What are the unalienable rights of citizens?

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

• Life, Death and Taxes

• Life, Liberty and Justice for All

• Life, Death and Liberty

What was the Albany Plan?

• a plan to get Georgia to the Continental Congress

• a plan to unite the colonies

• a plan to settle West

• a plan to overthrow King George III