Justified Anger?
Quiz by Shawna Turco
High School
Social Studies (Archived)
New York State Learning Standards
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- Q1The Proclamation of 1763 was intended toavoid conflicts with Native American Indians west of the Appalachian Mountainsallow American farmers to use the Mississippi Riverprevent France from expanding into the Great Lakes regionoutlaw slavery in the Ohio River valley30s
- Q2The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact had a similar effect in that bothreinforced the English Parliament's control over the coloniesgranted absolute authority to the colonial governorscontributed to the development of representative democracygave settlers the power to establish colonies30s
- Q3The Mayflower Compact is important to the concept of a democratic society because it representsan effort by the colonists to use force to resist the Kinga clear step toward self-governmentan early attempt to establish universal suffragean attempt by the colonists to establish freedom of religion30s
- Q4The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are all examples of the efforts of colonial Americans tooverthrow British royal governorsprotest British land policiesuse democratic practices in governmentestablish religious freedom30s
- Q5What did England do to stop American colonists from moving west?issued the Proclamation of 1763passed the Tea Actheld the Boston Tea Partykilled people in the Boston Massacre30s
- Q6What was the Quartering Act of 1765?It was the declaration that Britain had the right to tax the coloniesIt said colonists had to give British soldiers food and a place to stayIt was used to punish the colonists in Boston for having the Tea PartyIt said the British could only trade with the American colonies30s
- Q7What did the Stamp Act tax?Paper products, like newspapers and legal documentsTeaGuns and weaponsSugar30s
- Q8What was the Declaratory Act?A declaration from the American colonies to the British that they would not pay any British taxesA declaration of war by the BritishA new tax on tea and sugarA statement from the British Parliament stating that they had the right to tax the colonies30s
- Q9The North American colonies took advantage of Great Britain's policy of salutary neglect tointroduce the practice of slavery into the New Worldestablish religious freedom as a fundamental right and representative governmentsestablish a standing armymake favorable territorial settlements with the French30s
- Q10Great Britain raised taxes on the colonists to pay forstampsthe French and Indian WarRevolutionary wartobacco from the colonies30s
- Q11One reason traditions of self-government developed in the American colonies before the French and Indian War was that the Britishmaintained a strong military presence in the coloniesrequired colonial representation in Parliamentpracticed salutary neglect in the coloniessent effective leaders to govern colonial settlements30s
- Q12American colonists showed their opposition to the British taxation and trade restrictions of the 1760s primarily bysupporting the French against the Britishoverthrowing the royal governors in most of the coloniespurchasing additional products from Native American Tribesboycotting products from Great Britain30s
