(PR)-Practice Test Unit #1

Which of the following was written by Thomas Paine to convince people to support independence from Britain.

• Salutary Neglect
• Common Sense
• Proclamation of 1763
• Boston Tea Party

The economic policy to build a nation’s wealth. A mother country wants to have more exports and fewer imports.

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

• Common Sense

• Proclamation of 1763

The British forbade the colonists from settling the land west of the Appalachian mountains to avoid conflicts with Native Americans.

• Salutary Neglect

• Proclamation of 1763

• Mercantilism

• Common Sense

Statement of grievances and eventually independence by the colonists against the British king.

• Boston Tea Party

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

• Salutary Neglect

Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British colonial practices such as the Tea Tax and Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Proclamation of 1763

• Common Sense

• Salutary Neglect

English policy of relaxing control over its colonies in return for the colonies' economic loyalty.

• Boston Tea Party

• Proclamation of 1763

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

The idea expressed in the quotation “All just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed” is most directly found in

• The Magna Carta

• The English Bill of Rights

• The United States Declaration of Independence

• Washington’s Farewell Address

According to the Declaration of Independence, the purpose of government is to

• Establish separation of church and state

• Secure natural rights for the people

• Provide for the defense of the country

• Encourage economic expansion

The following are examples of ________________

1. Committees of Correspondence

2. Non Importation agreements

3. Boston Tea Party

4. First Continental Congress

• Protests against slavery

• British Parliamentary Laws

• Colonial responses to British Actions

• Colonial attempts to end the French and Indian War

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?

• Taxation of American Colonists without Representation in Parliament

• Disputed Land Claims in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British

• Violation of Trade Agreements between European Nations and Native American Indians

• Conflicts between American Colonists and the French over Control of the Great Plains.