American Revolution STAAR Review

Why did Parliament(England) pass these acts-Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Acts?

• promote growth of cottage industries

• encourage foreign trade with colonies

• recover the cost of defending the colonies

• fund the establishment of new colonies

How did mercantilism create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• introduced servitude to the middle colonies

• required colonists to enlist in the military

• limit the amount of farmland

• prevent colonists from trading with other foreign countries

How did the Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Stamp Act contribute to the start of the Revolutionary War?

• restricted colonial trade with Indians

• imposed regulations on colonial agriculture

• angered colonists, believed their civil liberties had been violated

• punish colonists for resisting Authority

Why did colonists dislike the Proclamation of 1763?

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

• did not want to share control of the Fur Trad with France

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

Why is Saratoga the turning point in the Revolutionary War?

• British victory extended fighting for another year

• American defeat led many soldiers to desert the army

• British defeat marked the beginning of a steady decline in British superiority

• American victory convinced France to ally with the United States

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

Which of these is a grievance from the Declaration of Independence?

• Colonists born in America were prohibited from holding elected office

• Colonists were forced to quarter troops in their homes

• Colonists were not eligible to become officers in the British Army

• Colonists were required to serve a year in their colony's militia

-Life

-Liberty

-Pursuit of happiness

This list includes rights that are considered?

• transferable

• legislated

• unalienable

• inherited

Which of these completes the graphic organizer?

• Parliament repeals the Stamp and Sugar Acts

• King George III allows colonists to petition tax relief

• Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts

• King George III appoints colonial representatives to Parliament

Who did the Second Continental Congress appoint to lead the Continental Army?

• Patrick Henry

• Sam Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine