WTP Lesson 7 quiz

What is a Charter?

• A method of communication between colonies

• A colonial currency

• A legal document granting land and the right to start a colony

• A type of ship used during the colonial period

What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?

• To ensure each colony knew about events in the others

• To negotiate trade agreements with Native Americans

• To draft soldiers for the colonial army

• To collect taxes from the colonists

What did the Writs of Assistance allow?

• Colonists to vote in elections

• The power to search a ship or house without prior notice

• Colonists to trade freely without taxes

• British soldiers to quarter in any colonial home

What is meant by 'Separation of powers'?

• The division of powers among Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches

• The division of church and state

• The separation of colonies from Great Britain

• The division of land among settlers

What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

• A law that stamped out colonial protests

• A law banning the use of stamps by colonists

• A law imposing a tax on every piece of paper

• A law requiring a stamp on all tea sold in the colonies

What did the Boston Tea Party protest against?

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Quartering Act

• The Tea Act giving a monopoly to the East India Company

• The Stamp Act

Who were the Daughters of Liberty?

• The wives of British officers stationed in the colonies

• Women who boycotted British goods and made American goods

• A group of female soldiers

• A British women's group supporting the King

What was the main purpose of the First Continental Congress?

• To declare independence from Britain

• To elect George Washington as president

• To draft the Constitution

• To decide on the best response to British actions

Why did the colonists fight for independence?

• To join the French Empire

• Because of unfair laws and lack of freedoms

• To establish English as the official language

• To gain more land

What did the Sons of Liberty do?

• They were a British military unit

• They negotiated peace with Native American tribes

• They committed violent acts and burned effigies

• They were a group of poets promoting colonial unity