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History
Causes of the Revolutionary War - Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The French and Indian War began because both the French and the English wanted to control the fertile lands along what river? | Ohio |
| What was the result of the French and Indian War that eventually led to the American Revolution? | England decided to make the American colonists help pay war debts |
| The main purpose of the Navigation Acts passed by England was to: | ensure that England benefited from colonial trade |
| Many American colonists believed that British tax laws were unfair because? | colonists lacked representation in Parliment |
| The Stamp Act put a tax on: | all legal documents and newspapers |
| The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were organized to: | discuss and plan ways to protest British policies |
| Why did the Indians under Pontiac attach British forts in the Ohio region? | they wanted to force the "white men" off their land |
| The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the colony of Massachusetts because of the: | Boston Tea Party |
| The Writs of Assistance were: | search warrants used by British officers |
| The Proclamation of 1763: | forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountians |
| When colonists boycotted British goods, they: | refused to buy the goods |
| Why did the Massachusetts colonists hold the Boston Tea Party? | to protest the British tax on tea |
| Which of the following did not happen af ter the Boston Tea Party? | the British passed a tax on tea |
| British troops fought with colonists at Lexington and Concord after the British: | marched to capture colonial weapons |
| The Townsend Acts angered the colonists because they: | placed a tax on lead, paint, glass and tea |
| Which of the following laws required the colonists to trade only with England? | Navigation Acts |
| Who won the French and Indian War? | Britain |
| England's governing body of lawmakers is called: | Parliament |
| Several colonists were accidentally killed for protesting taxes at the: | Boston Massacre |
| Anti-British feelings among the colonists grew more intense because of Paul Revere's engraving of the: | Boston Massacre |
| Colonists were required to provide housing for British soldiers according to the: | Quartering Act |
| The colonists often taunted the British soldiers by call them: | redcoats |
| The Proclamation of 1763 forbade: | colonists to settle WEST of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mts. |
| The "shot heard round the world", the first shot starting the war, was fired at the Battle of: | Lexington |
| The ________ were forced to "retreat" back to Boston after the Battle of Concord. | British |
| Colonists objected to taxes enforced by Britain because they: | Did not think that taxation with representation was fair |
| What was not a colonial action or group formed to respond to British acts : non-importation, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act Congress, Pontiac's War | Pontiac's War |
| At the first Continental Congress, the colonial representatives agreed to do all of the following EXCEPT | compromise with Britain over tax laws |
| I rode through the night to warn the patriots that the "British are coming!" | Paul Revere |
| The patriots used propaganda against British after which the following events? | the shooting at the Boston Massacre |
| Army of citizens who serve as soldiers in an emergency | Militia |
| a colonist who remained loyal to Britain | Loyalist |
| a colonist who supported American Independence | Patriot |
| refusal to by a product | Boycott |
| illegally bringing goods in or out of the colonies | Smuggling |
| To cancel of withdraw a law | Repeal |
| group of colonists who wrote letters protesting British acts | Committees of Correspondence |
| inaccurate information spread to influence people's opinions | Propaganda |
| belief that the colonies exist to benefit the economy of the mother country | Mercantilism |
| volunteers who prepared to fight the British in 1775 if called upon quickly | Minutemen |
| The British government established the Proclamation Line of 1763 mainly to: | avoid conflicts with the Native Americans |
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