CTA Review

Why did the colonists call the coercive acts intolerable?

• They hated them because they were intended to punish them for the Boston Tea Party

• The were expensive taxes on everyday items

• They required colonists to move out of their homes

• They prohibited colonists from moving West beyond the Appalachian Mountains

What was the name of the meeting that happened where 13 delegates met to try to keep the peace?

• The Stamp Act Committee

• The Continental Congress

• The Paraliament

• The US House of Representatives

WHAT WAS THE SITUATION IN THE COLONIES WHEN THE 2ND CONTINENTAL

CONGRESS MET?

• Tensions were increasing and fighting had already begun

• They were attempting to rejoin the British Empire

• They had already signed the Treaty ending the Revolutionary War

• There had been five hundred killed at the Boston Massacre

WHO DID THE 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE

COLONIAL ARMY?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

• John Hancock

WHAT DOCUMENT WAS SENT TO KING GEORGE III AS AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP

THE PEACE?

• The Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• The Olive Branch Petition

WHO WERE THE AMERICAS NAMED AFTER?

• Americas Columbus

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

WHAT CAUSED MANY NATIVES TO DIE BECAUSE OF EUROPEAN

EXPLORATION?

• War

• Famine (food shortages)

• Diseases

• New Weapons

WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE?

• It exchanged plants, animals and ideas between the New World and Old World

• It spread diseases to Europe from the Indians

• It proved that the world was really flat

• It gave new foods to the Europeans who were starving

WHAT IS A JOINT-STOCK COMPANY?

• A company that buys shares in the stock market.

• When investors pay for shares in a company and split the profits/risks

• When a CEO takes over a new business

• When investors put up 100% of the fees

WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE WORLD?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Amerigo West