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WorksheetsDevelopment of a New Nation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Causes of the French and Indian War:
a)
If a British soldier asked to stay in your house.
b)
British taxes on paper, glass, lead, and other imported goods.
c)
The British and the French/Native Americans were fighting over land across the Appalachian Mountains in the Ohio River Valley region
2.
Sugar Act
a)
British tax on paper, glass, lead and other imported goods.
b)
British tax on all sugar and molasses.
c)
British tax on all paper products. The colonists strongly protested this law.
3.
Thomas "Big Foot" Spencer
a)
Long hunter famous for settling near the Cumberland River. Helped to found the city of Nashville.
b)
Created the Watauga Settlement, the first settlement in Tennessee.
c)
Chief of the Cherokee who sold the Watauga Purchase to Richard Henderson.
4.
Quartering Act
a)
If a British soldier asked to stay in your house you had to let them.
b)
British tax on paper, glass, lead and other imported goods.
c)
A British policy that took control of the colonies trade. Based on the idea that a colony's purpose is to help the parent country with resources.
5.
"No taxation without representation"
a)
This phrase was popular amoun the colonies. The colonies were upset that the British were taxing them without giving them a representative in Parliament.
b)
The court case that helped establish freedom of the press.
c)
A reason for the French and Indian war.
6.
Peter Zenger Trial
a)
Court case that helped establish freedom of the press. He was found not guilty because what he wrote about the governor of New York was true.
b)
The first constitution created beyond the Appalacian Mountains.
c)
The Cherokee destroyed the British fort after the British had taken 38 Cherokee hostage.
7.
Proclamation of 1763
a)
A law issued by the king forbidding the American Colonists to move to land wast of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered the colonists.
b)
British policy that took control of the colonists trade.
c)
An early leader of both the Watauga and the Cumberland settlements.
8.
Declaratory Act
a)
Took away the Stamp Act. It also declared that the British had the right to tax the colonies without the colonies permission.
b)
Seperated the colonists from the west.
c)
Tax on sugar and molasses.
9.
Dragging Canoe
a)
Little Carpenter's son that did not like the colonists and tried to convince his father not to trust the settlers.
b)
An early leader of both the Watauga and Cumberland settlements, he has been called the "Father of Middle Tennessee."
c)
Trail created by Daniel Boone.
10.
Benjamin Franklin
a)
Was a founding father as well as a scientist, inventor, printer, and diplomat. He created the join or die political cartoon.
b)
Father of Dragging Canoe.
c)
Created the Watauga Settlement.
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