SS 5th grade Unit 4: Chapter 8 Quiz

When did the French and Indian War begin?

• 1754

• 1756

• 1763

• 1700

Match the following

• freedom to govern on one's own

• revolution

• the act of working against one's own government

• treason

• to refuse to buy

• representation

• a plan for spending money

• budget

• a sudden change of government

• boycott

In what year did Parliament pass the Stamp Act?

• 1765

• 1754

• 1763

• 1700

A formal agreement among groups or individuals is​ (a)  

• alliance
• petition
• monopoly

Did the first battles of the Revolutionary War start before or after the Declaration of Independence?​ (a)  

• before
• after
• neither

What did the British government do to help pay the costs of the French and Indian War?

• It printed colonial currency.

• It forced the colonists to trade only with Britian.

• It passed new tax laws for the colonies.

• It sold western lands to settlers.

How did many colonists protest the taxes placed on British goods?

• They left the colonies.

• They fought with British soldiers.

• They refused to buy British goods.

• They refused to make British goods.

Match the following

• gave Britain most of Canada

• Crispus Attucks

• formed to spread information between colonies more quickly

• Boston Massacre

• fighting and bloodshed in Boston between the colonists and soldiers

• Sugar Act

• was passed to raise money for Britain.

• Committees of Correspondence

• African American sailor killed in the fight for colonies freedom

• Treaty of Paris

​ (a)   organized the first Committee of Correspondence and thought by many to have planned the ​ (b)  

• Samuel Adams
• Boston Tea Party.
• Richard Henry Lee
• War at Bunker Hill

The _______ met after the fighting at Lexington and Concord.

• First Continental

  Congress

• Second Continental

  Congress

• Continental Army

• None of these