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1. Why did Parliament enforce the Proclamation of 1763?
A. To expand British settlements into new territories.
B. To increase trade with Native Americans.
C. To avoid conflict with Native Americans.
D. To decrease the number of British soldiers in the colonies.
C. To avoid conflict with Native Americans.
Why is Crispus Attucks important to U.S. history?
a) He organized numerous boycotts of British products.
b) He is believed to be the original organizer of the minutemen.
c) He distributed pamphlets that spoke out against British taxation.
d) He is considered the first person to die for American independence.
d) He is considered the first person to die for American independence.
A case of law decided by a group of one’s fellow citizens.
Trial by jury
After the British government had accrued large amounts of war debts while fighting on two continents, they implemented _____ towards the colonists.
taxes
Which statement would James Otis agree with?
a) King George III is unfit to rule over the British Empire and should be deposed.
b) Colonists should be able to impose laws on the British.
c) The colonists should pay their fair share of French and Indian War debts.
d) Taxation without representation goes against the rights of Englishmen.
d) Taxation without representation goes against the rights of Englishmen.
What were the effects of the Boston Tea Party? Select the two correct answers.
A. Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts.
B. Delegates met at the First Continental Congress.
C. The colonists were required to pay a new tax on tea.
D. Colonists taunted and threw snowballs at British soldiers.
E. The Sons of Liberty organized the Committee of Correspondence.
A. Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts.
B. Delegates met at the First Continental Congress.
_____ allowed American colonies to govern themselves mostly without interference from Britain.
Salutary Neglect
______ were made up of regular citizens who volunteered to be part-time soldiers.
Militias
What does Patrick Henry suggest when he asks, “Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?”
a) The British are preparing to pass more taxes.
b) The troops are there to oppress the colonists.
c) The British are preparing for another war with France.
d) The troops are there to support colonial governments.
b) The troops are there to oppress the colonists.
What was the purpose of colonial militias?
A) to organize a permanent standing army
B) to protect trade from British interference
C) to protect local communities from British attack
D) to quickly communicate information between cities
C) to protect local communities from British attack
The _____ of 1763 stated that colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation
The ____ act required colonial governments to provide quarters, or housing, for the British soldiers who were stationed in the colonies.
Quartering
Why did the colonists oppose the Townshend Acts?
A. They placed new taxes on sugar.
B. They denied the colonists’ right to a trial by jury.
C. They made smuggling tea from the Dutch illegal.
D. They forced the colonists to house soldiers in their homes.
B. They denied the colonists’ right to a trial by jury.
Show stamp act riot image
Explain that citizens were rioting over tax on paper goods.
Bostonians called the killing a of defenseless people a ____.
Massacre
The colonists called these laws the _____ Acts because they wouldn’t tolerate or accept them.
Intolerable
What was the main purpose of John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania?
A. to urge colonists to resist British taxation
B. to argue against the rights of Englishmen
C. to discourage colonists from boycotting British goods
D. to shape public opinion in favor of the Loyalist cause
A. to urge colonists to resist British taxation
Show stamp act excerpt. Why do colonist oppose the stamp act?
It was imposed without their consent.
In Virginia, the House of ______, a group of representatives who had been elected by colonists, passed a motion protesting the Stamp Act.
Burgesses
British colonists believed they had certain rights that the king and his government could not take away, called ________.
the "rights of Englishmen".