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Causes Activity Check In 1

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Put these events in the correct order.

a)

French and Indian War

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Quartering Act

e)

Stamp Act

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
2.

What two laws did colonists claim broke their right to property?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Quartering ACt

3.

What two laws did colonists claim broke their right to taxation with representation?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Quartering ACt

4.

What event caused the British to be in debt and change their economic policy towards the colonists?

a)

French and Indian War

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Colonization

5.

What law said that colonists had to house British soldiers and provide them with bedding, candles and drinks?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Quartering Act

6.

What law placed a tax on all legal and commercial documents?

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Quartering Act

7.

What law placed a tax on sugar and molasses?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Quartering Act

8.

Who was the French and Indian War fought between?

a)

French/Indians vs. England/Colonists

b)

French vs. Indians

c)

England vs. Colonists

d)

French/England vs. Indians/Colonists

9.

What treaty officially ended the French and Indian War?

a)

Albany Plan of Union

b)

Washington's Fort Duquesne

c)

Treaty of Paris 1763

d)

Treaty of Paris 17783

10.

Who created this political cartoon?

a)

George Washington

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

King George II

11.

What did Benjamin Franklin propose to convince the colonies to work together?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Treaty of Paris 1763

c)

Stamp Act Congress

d)

Albany Plan of Union

12.

Who said "give me liberty or give me death"?

a)

George Washington

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

King George III

d)

Patrick Henry

13.

The Treaty of Paris 1763 made the western boundary of the English territory in the America's the ...

a)

Appalachian Mountains

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Ohio River Valley

d)

Mississippi River

14.

What law said that colonists can't settle past the Appalachian Mountains?

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Treaty of Paris 1763

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

French and Indian War

15.

England said that they passed the Proclamation of 1763 to ...

a)

protect colonists from Native American attacks

b)

create revenue to pay off their debts

c)

to prevent another war with the French

d)

all of the above

16.

Why did England start taxing the colonists?

a)

To raise revenue

b)

As a punishment

c)

They had always enforced taxes on them

d)

King George III was mean

17.

What law was this political cartoon protesting?

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Quartering Act

d)

Proclamation of 1763

18.

What did the Stamp Act Congress do? (2 answers)

a)

Agreed to pay the taxes as they were

b)

Met together to discuss how to protest the Stamp Act

c)

Sent a letter to KG3 asking him to repeal the Stamp Act

d)

Never met, the colonies wouldn't agree

19.

What right was broken by the Stamp Act

a)

Right to property

b)

No taxation without representation

20.

What right was broken by the Sugar Act

a)

Right to property

b)

No taxation without representation

21.

What right was broken by the Quartering Act?

a)

Right to property

b)

No taxation without representation

22.

What right was broken by the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

Right to property

b)

No taxation without representation