Causes of American Revolution 23-24

The French and Indian War was between...

• The French and Natives

• The British and Natives

• The French and the British

• The French and the Colonists

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8.4A

How did the British policy of mercantilism limit the freedom of those living in the American colonies? (8.4A)

• By forcing colonists to give up all attempts at self-government

• By requiring the colonies to sell certain goods only to England

• By imprisoning colonists who protested the British government

• By limiting all colonial settlements to land east of the Appalachian Mountains

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

• King George III made the Appalachian Mountains the western boundary of the colonist

• The Proclamation was a series of taxes

• The Proclamation gave the colonies their independence

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8.4A

Why did Great Britain pass the Proclamation of 1763?

• To help the French

• Because they favored the Native Americans

• The King made Parliament pass the law

• They couldn't afford to protect the colonists from Native American attacks

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8.4A

Why did the British Parliament (law makers) begin passing new laws and taxes in the Colonies?

• The British government wanted to punish the colonies for violating the Proclamation of 1763

• The British government was in a lot of debt from the French and Indian War

• The British government was at war with Spain and needed to pay for the war

• The British government officials would get the money taxed in the colonies

Reorder the following

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

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8.4A

The Stamp Act was a tax on documents printed on paper​

• True

• False

The Townshend Acts were

• Required colonists to buy tea from a certain company.

• Taxes on all printed materials.

• Required colonists to provide housing for soldiers.

• Taxes on paper, paint, glass, and tea

• Colonists sought military support from France.

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

An organization of patriots that organized boycotts and protests were called

• Loyalists

• Albany Plan of Union

• Writs of Assistance

• Sons of Liberty