3.3 Spiral Quiz

Match the terms

• Middle Colonies

• Rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, and grain

• Reasons for Exploration

• British controlled trade; angered colonists

• Quakers

• Claim territory, new trade routes to Asia through Northwest Passage

• Mercantilism

• First anti-slavery group who lived in Pennsylvania

Match the following

• Reasons for exploration

• Claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions

• Spain

• Cash crops; Transatlantic Slave Trade provided slave labor for plantations

• Maryland

• Founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom

• Southern Colonies

• Wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory

Match the following

• Stamp Act

• Parliament had the right to tax colonists

• Townshend Act

• Lowered tax, but officers took smugglers' goods without going to court

• Sugar Act

• Tax on lead, paper, tea, paint and glass

• Declaratory Act

• Tax on all paper products

One result of the French and Indian War was that the-

• Natives began to prosper economically

• colonists were able to expand into the Ohio River Valley

• French were executed for their failure to defeat the British

• British issued taxes on the colonists to help pay for debts

Writs of asssitance escalated the tension between the colonists and Britain by-

• allowing King George III to sentence anyone to prison without proof of crime

• declaring that the colonists did not have the same rights as citizens of Britain

• discontinuing colonists from electing representatives to Parliament

• permitting British officials to search anywhere without need of a permit

The British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to limit the area British colonists were allowed to settle. Which geographic feature did the British use as the boundary of approved settlement?

• Lake Michigan

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

Why did colonists protest the act mentioned in this excerpt?

• Colonists lacked representation in Parliament where taxes were passed

• Colonists felt the taxes favored British colonsits living in Quebec

• Colonists felt that taxes were unjust because they were collected by the Royal governor

• Colonists felt that taxation should only be initiated by the church

Which conclusion can be drawn as to why this trading system was established?

• The British wanted to expand their empire all over the world

• The colonies lacked the necessary labor force to harvest cash crops

• The British were seeking a direct sea route to the West Indies

• The colonies wanted to spread Christianity to Africa

Which part of the excerpt explains why the French wanted to establish successful trade relations with Native Americans?