September 25 Warm-Up Townshend Acts and Boston Massacre

Claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions.

• Maryland

• Reasons for exploration

• Southern colonies

• Spain

Cash crops; Transatlantic Slave Trade provided slave labor for plantations.

• Maryland

• Reasons for exploration

• Southern colonies

• Spain

Founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom.

• Maryland

• Reasons for exploration

• Southern colonies

• Spain

Wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory.

• Maryland

• Reasons for exploration

• Southern colonies

• Spain

The Writs of Assistance (police using informants) escalated the tension between the colonists and Britain by-

• allowing King George III to sentence anyone to prison without proof of a crime

• declaring that the colonists did not have the same rights as citizens of Britain

• discontinuing colonists from electing representatives to Parliament

• permitting British officials to search anywhere without need of a permit

The British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to limit the area British colonists were allowed to settle. Which geographic feature did the British use as the boundary of approved settlement?

• Lake Michigan

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

What is the term used to describe the situation where the American colonists were being taxed by the British government without having any representation in the British Parliament?

(a)  

• Taxation without representation
• Parliamentary taxation

• Colonial taxation

• Unfair taxation

Match the following causes of the American Revolution.

• Redcoats killed civilians in Boston

• 
• only allowed trade with mother country

• 
• rally cry for the colonists

• 
• could not pass Appalachian Mountains

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8.4A