CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Generation Date: 10/12/2017 Generated By: Doug Frierson
1. What was the name of the treaty signed in 1763 which officially ended the French and Indian War?
A. Treaty of Ghent
B. Treaty of Niagara
D. Treaty of Versailles
2. Which of the following was the main reason that American colonists opposed the Stamp Act of 1765?
A. The act was taxation without representation.
B. The tax was not imposed on the wealthy.
C. The act was passed by the king, not Parliament.
D. The tax was a large amount of money.
3. The Proclamation of 1763 was established to prevent any settlers from moving ______of the Appalachian Mountains.
A. north
B. east
C. west
D. south
4. The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. In an attempt to get the best representation of a united colony, how did the Congress allocate votes between the colonies?
A. The number of votes for each colony was based on its population.
B. The Congress had no authority; therefore, there were no votes necessary.
C. Each of the 13 colonies got one vote.
D. Each of the colonies got two votes.
5. The Proclamation of 1763 was established following which of these wars?
A. War of 1812
B. Spanish-American War
C. Revolutionary War
D. French and Indian War
6. Which American colonist was the lawyer who defended the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
A. James Madison
C. John Adams
7. What happened in South Carolina in response to the Stamp Act?
A. South Carolinians were fairly neutral regarding the Stamp Act.
B. South Carolinians were strongly in favor of the act and willingly paid the tax.
C. People disagreed with the act, but felt obligated to pay it anyway.
D. There was widespread opposition to the act which included rioting.
8.
• South Carolina patriot • Attended the Stamp Act Congress • Founded the Charleston Sons of Liberty • Strong supporter of independence at the First Continental Congress
Which person is described in the box above?
A. Samuel Adams
D. George Washington
9. The French and Indian War was mainly fought between which of the following two groups?
A. British and French
B. French and Spanish
C. British and Canadian
D. Mexican and French
10. At the First Continental Congress, which of the following did the Congress demand of England?
A. that the colonies' independence be recognized
B. that England recognize George Washington as the head of the colonies
C. that the Proclamation of 1763 be lifted
D. that the Intolerable Acts be repealed
11. An event that became known as the Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. On this day, British soldiers fired on and killed
A. unarmed colonists.
B. other British soldiers.
C. revolutionary politicians.
D. colonial minutemen.
12. Colonel George Washington led a militia force into the Ohio Valley in 1754. What was the name of the fort that Washington built and was near the site of the first battle of the French and Indian War?
A. Fort Baltimore
B. Fort Necessity
C. Fort McHenry
D. Fort Washington
13. The Intolerable Acts was an American term for the laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to which of the following events?
A. Boston Massacre
C. Declaration of Independence
D. Thomas Paine's Common Sense
14. The colonists that participated in the Boston Tea Party were disguised as which of the following?
A. British royalty
B. prisoners of war
C. tax collectors
D. Mohawk Indians
15.
• Edward Rutledge • Arthur Middleton • Thomas Lynch, Jr. • Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Which of the following best describes the role that the four South Carolinians in the box above played in the American Revolution?
A. They organized boycotts of British goods.
B. They all signed the Declaration of Independence.
C. They were all Loyalists who supported the British.
D. They were generals in the Continental Army.
16. The Boston Tea Party, the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, was the colonists' opposition to which of the following?
A. Tea Act
B. Stamp Act
C. Sugar Act
D. Quebec Act
17. Which of the following was a major battle of the French and Indian War?
A. Fort New York
B. Battle of Saratoga
C. Fort Duquesne
D. Battle of Yorktown
18. Which of the following included duties on imports such as tea, lead, glass, and paper?
B. Stamp Act
C. Tea Act
D. Intolerable Acts
19. What was the name of the new tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used?
A. Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
B. Impartial Administration of Justice Act
C. Stamp Act
D. Quebec Act
20.
• Boston Port Act • Administration of Justice Act • Massachusetts Government Act • Quartering Act
What do the above four items have in common?
A. The colonists gained trading privileges from them.
B. The colonists called them the Bill of Rights.
C. The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
D. The colonists wrote them during the American Revolution.
Explanations
1. Following the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France was removed from North America. This left the vast interior of the continent open for the Americans to colonize.
2. Parliament passed the Stamp Act as a way of raising money in the American colonies. One of the reasons the colonists protested this act was because America did not have any way of voting in British Parliament.
3. The British issued the Proclamation of 1763, which prevented any more white settlers moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
4. To provide unity, delegates gave one vote to each state regardless of its size. They met in secret because they did not want the British to know that the colonies were uniting.
5. The goal of the proclamation was to establish Britain's North American empire following the war and to stabilize relations with the Native Americans.
6. John Adams defended the soldiers at their trials (Oct. 24-30 and Nov. 27-Dec. 5, 1770). Four of the men were acquitted, while two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and released after being branded on the hand.
7. South Carolinians were strongly opposed to the Stamp Act. They felt that their rights had been violated. Riots and other protests were held in Charleston. The South Carolina Assembly even sent a petition against the Stamp Act to the king of England. The Stamp Act was eventually repealed in 1766.
8. Christopher Gadsden was a South Carolina politician who served in the South Carolina Assembly. In 1765, he attended the Stamp Act Congress. At the Stamp Act Congress, representatives from different colonies agreed that they would not import goods from Great Britain until the Stamp Act was repealed. Gadsden founded the Charleston Sons of Liberty, a patriot group. At the First Continental Congress in 1774, Gadsden was strongly in favor of the colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain. Few of the other delegates supported independence at that time. It was not until the Second Continental Congress in 1776 that the colonies declared their independence.
9. By the 1750s, as both British and French settlements in North America expanded, religious and commercial tensions began to produce new frictions and new conflicts. From 1756 to 1763, the British and the French fought in the French and Indian War.
10. On September 5, 1774, every colony but Georgia sent representatives to what is now called the First Continental Congress. They made a list of basic rights they wanted and a list of complaints to send to King George III. They signed a petition demanding the Intolerable Acts be repealed and sent it to England.
11. The Boston Massacre, the killing of five men by British soldiers on March 5, 1770, was the culmination of civilian-military tensions that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768.
12. In 1754 the governor of Virginia sent George Washington and the Virginia militia to the Ohio River Valley in order to force the French to leave the area. The first battle of the war took place on May 28, 1754, when George Washington and his troops defeated a group of French troops. This clash marked the beginning of the French and Indian War, which lasted nearly nine years. Washington and his troops built Fort Necessity near where the first battle had taken place.
13. The Intolerable Acts was the name given to four laws passed by the British Parliament in March 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts for defying British policies. Resentment of these acts led to the outbreak of the American Revolution (1775-1783).
14. On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty protested by dressing as Mohawk Indians, boarding the ships, and dumping the tea overboard.
15. Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., and Thomas Heyward, Jr. were the four delegates from South Carolina to the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence. They, along with delegates from the other colonies, voted to be independent of Great Britain on July 2, 1776.
16. In the time leading up to the American Revolution, the tax on British tea was so expensive that many colonists instead drank tea that was smuggled illegally. When the British East India Company began to suffer financially, Britain passed the Tea Act in 1773, allowing the company to sell its tea in America without paying the high tax and making it cheaper than even the smuggled tea. Colonists were angered that the Tea Act showed such favoritism.
17. A major battle of the French and Indian War took place at Fort Duquesne. The French built Fort Duquesne in 1754 at the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers flow together to form the Ohio River. Fearing that the British were going to take the fort in November 1758, the French destroyed it rather than giving it up to the British. The British built a new fort called Fort Pitt near the same location. This is where the city of Pittsburgh is located.
18. The Townshend Acts imposed duties on imports from England of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The proceeds of the taxes were to be used to pay the salaries of the colonial governors and judges. 19. The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1765 to raise revenue in the American colonies for maintaining the colonies' military defenses. The Stamp Act required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax stamp.
20. The Intolerable Acts was an American label for the laws sponsored by Lord North's ministry and enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
Answers
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. C 7. D 8. C 9. A 10. D 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. D 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. A 19. C 20. C