WorksheetsPatriot vs. Loyalist Quiz #1
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 39mins
What is mercantilism?
A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.
where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.
Wars that start over money.
Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.
The impact of mercantilism was that
The rate of slavery in the Americas went down
Trade was limited in the Atlantic
The Colony grew wealthy
The Mother Country grew wealthy
True or False? Great Britain wanted to create wealth by importing more goods than it exported.
True
False
According to the British what was the reason for the Proclamation of 1763?
The Proclamation of 1763 gave all of the land to the American colonists.
It was a law that allowed colonists the chance to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation was a meeting between Native Americans and the colonists.
It was attempt to end expensive conflicts between Native Americans and colonists west of the Appalachian Mountains
I am a Patriot. How do I feel about the Proclamation of 1763?
They felt that it supported their freedom and they supported it.
They felt it was an infringement on their freedom of movement and were angry about it.
They were not involved so it did not affect them.
They supported it because they believed the King had the AUTHORITY to make this law.
How did the colonist protest against the Stamp Act?
They refused to pay the tax
they boycotted british goods
They burned the stamped paper in the streets
All of the above
None of the above
How did merchants avoid paying the sugar tax?
not using them
smuggling goods into the country
made their own sugar
just paid the taxes anyway
The ______________________ lowered the tax on sugar and molasses, but stopped colonists from smuggling.
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Intolerable Act
Townshed Act
After continued protests, the Townshend Act was mostly repealed. What was the only piece that was not?
The tax on tea
The tax on imports
The tax on legal document
The tax on lead and glass
What was the purpose for establishing the Committees of Correspondence?
To maintain communication with one another
To start a war
To communicate with King George III
To invent the telephone
