Ch. 4 Review 2024

What was one result of the British victory in the French and Indian War?

• The French were forced to give up their major land holdings in North America.

• The British were able to purchase land west of the Mississippi River from the French.

• The Cherokee were punished and forced to move to lands west of the Mississippi River.

• The American colonies sought an alliance with Spain to achieve independence.

What action did the British take as a result of the French and Indian War to make it easier to manage the American colonies?

• They seized control over shipping in Boston Harbor.

• They took control over the Massachusetts colonial government.

• They banned the spread of slavery into the Northwest Territories.

• They prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Which group wanted to fight for liberty?

• Loyalists

• Quakers

• Patriots

• Tories

As a United States diplomat, which man secured France as an ally during the Revolutionary War?

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

Which American patriot said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?

• Samuel Adams

  
  

• Benjamin Franklin

• Nathan Hale

• Patrick Henry

What was the purpose of the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and quartering Act?

• to promote trade between the colonies and other European countries

  
  

• to penalize the colonists for acts of rebellion committed against British rule

  
  

• to raise revenue needed for improving roads and building canals in the colonies

  
  

• to get colonists to pay some of the costs resulting from the French and Indian War

  
  

A wealthy farmer from VA who commanded the Continental Army and became president in 1789

• Committees of Correspondence

  
  

• Boston Tea Party 

  
  

• George Washington

  
  

• Baron Friedrich von Steuben

  
  

Delegates from the colonies met to discuss their frustrations about the rising tension between Britain and the United States.

• Haym Salomon

  
  

• Common Sense

  
  

• Mercenaries 

  
  

• First Continental Congress

  
  

Document that announced the break from Great Britain and expressed the individual rights of life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

• Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• Declaration of Independence

  
  

• Sam Adams

  
  

• Mercy Otis Warren

  
  

This man is well known as the main author of the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• Sam Adams

  
  

• Mercy Otis Warren

  
  

• Battle of Trenton