Q2 - Common Assessment 1 Review

British colonists object to the Proclamation of 1763 because they -

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indains

• did not want to share control of the fur trade with France

• resent the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

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

All the events listed above occurred during-

• the era of westward expansion

• the Era of Good Feelings

• the Revoultionary era

• the Jacksonian era

Why were the colonists upset about the taxes?

• the colonists were not upset; they agreed to the taxes

• because the taxes were only for the rich people

• because they had no representatives in Parliament

• because the taxes came from France

.The 1765 act that taxed all paper and printed goods in the colonies was called the ____________.

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

What did the colonists call the laws that were passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Quartering Act

The French and Indian war was fought between _____ and _____.

• England and the Colonies

• England and France

• England and the Native Americans

• England and Spain

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp and Sugar Acts?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Navigation Act