Second Continental Congress

The ______ was sent to King George III to ask that the king protect colonists’ rights and tell him that the colonists do not want war. 

• List of Grievances
• Olive Branch Petition
• Declaration of Independence
• Magna Carter

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Who was put in charge of the Continental Army? 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Alexander Hamilton
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin

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Why were the First and Second Continental Congress held?

• To vote for the first president

• To decide when to go to war with Great Britain

• To discuss a solution to the colonists’ complaints of Great Britain

• To write the Constitution

Which of the following is a famous quote of the Virginia delegate (Patrick Henry) who convinced the members of the House of Burgesses to prepare for war?

• Unhappy Boston see thy sons deplore!

• Give me liberty or give me death!

• Liberty will reign in America!

• Let freedom ring to the mountain tops!

How did the British policy of "salutary neglect" affect the American Colonist?

• It left American Colonists without sufficient resources to provide for their economic needs

• It allowed American colonist to govern themselves without interference from Great Britain

• It required American colonist to pay heavy taxes on the crops and goods they produced.

• It prevented American colonist from developing their own institutions of government

The Coercive Acts of 1774

Boston Port Act (closed Boston Harbor to trade),

Massachusetts Government Act (extended British control over the Massachusetts government),

Administration of Justice Act (Gave the colonial governor the power to move trails of royal officials accused of crimes in Massachusetts to another colony or Great Britain),

Quartering Act (established new provisions in all colonies for lodging British soldiers)

WHY DID AMERICAN COLONIST OBJECT TO THESE MEASURES?

• They reduced the number of British troops that protected the colonist

• They expanded the rights of colonist everywhere except in Massachusetts

• They required colonist to make and carry out laws without British support

• They eliminated the power of Massachusetts colonist to govern themselves

During the early to mid-1700s, the British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies contributed to

• a decline in colonial maufacturing

• the decline of slavery in the northern colonies

• a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America

• the development of independent American colonial trade practices and self government