Final Test Review Practice 2

What was the French and Indian War?

• A conflict between Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763, part of the larger Seven Years' War.

• A civil war between French colonies in Canada and British colonies in the Caribbean.

• A naval battle between France and India over trade routes in the Indian Ocean.

• A war fought between Native American tribes and French settlers in Africa.

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

• A British proclamation that forbade American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• A treaty that ended the French and Indian War.

• A law that imposed taxes on tea and sugar.

• A declaration of independence by the American colonies.

What was the Sugar Act?

• A British law passed in 1764 that taxed sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.

• A law that allowed colonists to print their own money.

• A treaty that ended the French and Indian War.

• A law that required colonists to house British soldiers.

What was the Stamp Act?

• A 1765 law that required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.

• A law that banned all British goods in the colonies.

• A treaty that ended the French and Indian War.

• A proclamation that established new colonial borders.

What was the Declaratory Act?

• A 1766 law stating that Britain had the right to make laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.

• A law that ended the Stamp Act and granted independence to the colonies.

• A tax on tea imported to the American colonies.

• A law that required colonists to house British soldiers.

What was the Quartering Act?

• A law requiring colonists to provide housing and supplies to British soldiers.

• A tax on tea imported to the colonies.

• A law banning colonial assemblies.

• A law granting independence to the colonies.

What were the Townshend Acts including writs of assistance?

• A series of laws passed in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the colonies and allowed searches without specific warrants (writs of assistance).

• A set of laws that granted independence to the colonies from Britain.

• A group of acts that abolished slavery in the American colonies.

• A law that established the first colonial government in America.

What was the Boston Massacre?

• A 1770 incident in which British soldiers killed five colonists during a confrontation in Boston.

• A famous tea party held by colonists to protest British taxes.

• A peace treaty signed between the British and colonists in 1776.

• A battle fought between British and French forces in Boston.

What was the Tea Act?

• A 1773 law that allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial merchants.

• A law that banned all tea imports to the colonies.

• A tax on all goods imported into the colonies.

• A law that required colonists to grow tea for export to Britain.

What was the Boston Tea Party?

• A 1773 protest in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose the Tea Act.

• A celebration held by colonists to honor King George III.

• A meeting where colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

• A British law that taxed all tea sold in the colonies.