2025 ~ Midterm REVIEW Causes of American Revolution

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The stamp act was imposed on paper goods such as newspapers and playing cards.

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TRUE

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After the Boston Tea Party...

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King George closed Boston Harbor and created the Intolerable Acts

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What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

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When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government.

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Why was Great Britain taxing the colonies? Options: To help open jobs, To punish the colonists, To help pay debt from the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War), To help with trading

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To help pay debt from the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

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What was one effect the Declaration of Independence had on other nations?

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It showed that revolutions can lead to freedom

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What did the British Parliament make the colonists pay?

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Taxes

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In this quotation, Thomas Paine is trying to convince the colonists to: "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’TIS TIME TO PART” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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declare their independence from England

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What was the common slogan used in the Colonies? Options: "Give me liberty or Give me death", "No Taxation without Representation", "No Stamp Act, No Sugar Act", "Never eat spinach with a stranger"

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No Taxation without Representation

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Which action by the British government was considered by American colonists to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen? Options: making treaties with Native American Indians, protecting the colonies from foreign invasion, taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament, failing to enforce the Navigation Acts

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taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

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What historical event is being depicted in the illustration?

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The Boston Massacre