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STAAR Review: Revolution

Authored by Deanna Santagata

Social Studies

8th Grade

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STAAR Review: Revolution
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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. 

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

*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. 

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"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.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

1st 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

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