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The Colonies Fight for their Rights

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The First Skirmish between the British Colonies and the French was due to both wanting control over the ________________________?

a)

The Townsend Acts

b)

New France

c)

Ohio River Valley

d)

Lake Ontario

2.

What was the name of the stockade or fort that officer George Washington built after retreating from French Forces in 1754?

a)

Fort Duquesne

b)

Fort Carillon

c)

Fort William Henry

d)

Fort Necessity

3.

What was the name of the Fort that the French seized before the British could finish building it in western Pennsylvania?

a)

Fort Duquesne

b)

Fort Frontenac

c)

Fort Necessity

d)

Fort Carillon

4.

In 1759, the British sized Quebec, the capital of New France, turning the tide in the Seven Years' War in favor of the British. What was the name of the person who led this British triumph?

a)

Lietenant Colonel George Washington

b)

General Edward Braddock

c)

General James Wolfe

d)

General William Bobbit

5.

When the British defeated the French and Spanish in the Seven Years' War,

the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1761.

What did the Treaty of Paris include?

a)

All French territory east of the Mississippi became part of the British Empire (Except New Orleans)

b)

Spain gave Florida to the British

c)

The French signed a separate treaty with Spain, giving them New Orleans and territory west of the Mississippi

d)

All of the above

6.

To avoid another war with the Indians, King George III issued the _______________ of ________ declaring colonists could not expand west of the Appalachian Mountains

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

Treaty of Spain

c)

Albany Plan of Union

d)

Proclamation of 1763

7.

How did the colonists feel about the Proclamation of 1763 which declared colonists could not expand west of the Appalachian Mountains?

a)

Happy

b)

Indifferent

c)

Angry

d)

Safe from Indian Attacks

8.

Who was George Greenville?

a)

Prime Minister for England

b)

First Lord of the British Treasury

c)

Advocate for Vice-Admiral court in Nova Scotia

d)

All the above

9.

Who was John Hancock in 1768?

a)

A Lawyer

b)

A British Officer

c)

A Merchant

d)

A Farmer

10.

What Act imposed on the American Colonists by the British raised tax rates on silk, wine, coffee, pimento, indigo, and molasses?

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Sugar Act

c)

The Navigation Act

d)

The Currency Act

11.

The Townshend Acts introduced new regulations and taxes on the colonists, one of the Townshend Acts included ________________.

a)

The Sugar Act

b)

The Revenue Act

c)

The Stamp Act

d)

The Currency Act

12.

What was the name of the group that organized huge demonstrations to intimidate the stamp distributors during the time of the Stamp Act?

a)

The Patriots

b)

Daughters of Liberty

c)

House of Burgesses

d)

Sons of Liberty

13.

Who was the trial lawyer that defended John Hancock in the vice-admiralty court in Nova Scotia?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

George Washington

d)

John Adams