The road to revolution (1754-1800)

Which of the following were contributions women made to the American Revolution?

Actings as spies against the British,Spinning and wearing clothes made from homespun cloth to boycott British goods, and raising money

Which of the following was the most immediate effect of the Proclamation of 1763?

Colonists disobeyed the Proclamation of 1763, moving westward past the Appalachian Mountains

According to the excerpt, what caused the conflict between the French and the British?

Competing claims to colonial land

Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1755-1762 shown in the table?

Cost of conflict in the seven years war

The Articles of Confederation, the first governmental structure of the United States, delegated very little power to the central government. Which of the following could the central government do under the Articles of Confederation?

Declare war

Match the institution to its branch of government:

Executive: President Legislative: Congress Judicial: Supreme court

Which of the following was an immediate result of the conflict described in the excerpt?

France lost major territorial claims in colonial North America

Which of the following statements best explains the reason that the British government passed the Proclamation of 1763?

In order to reward Native Americans for fighting alongside the British in the Seven Years' War

Salutary neglect (also called benign neglect) characterized the relationship between the British Empire and its American colonies from the mid-1600s until the end of the Seven Years' War. What did salutary neglect entail?

Lax enforcement of British law and trade regulations in the American colonies

The map most directly depicts the ways in which the British government attempted to

Limit the westward expansion of British colonial settlement

Which of the following best describes the effect of the Proclamation of 1763 on the relationship between Britain and the American colonies?

Tensions increased between Britain and the American colonies over territorial expansion

Parliament passed the Coercive Acts (also called the Intolerable Acts) intending to isolate the "troublemakers" in Boston from the other colonies, but their gambit backfired. Why?

The Acts helped to unify the American colonies, who sent delegates to the First Continental Congress to coordinate a response to the British empire.

The Olive Branch Petition demonstrates that

The American colonists were attempting to repair their relationship with the British Crown rather than separate from it as late as 1775

Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Years' War?

The British Empire accrued a large amount of debt and The British Empire gained control of North America east of the Mississippi River

The excerpt is describing which of the following conflicts in the 1700s?

The Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War)

Which of the following pieces of legislation was passed in 1764 in large part as a reaction to the changes illustrated in the chart?

The Sugar Act

Shays' Rebellion, an uprising of disgruntled farmers and Revolutionary War veterans in Massachusetts, was a major factor leading to

The creation of a stronger central government that would better be able to handle military and economic problems than the Articles of Confederation.

Which of the following was a direct effect of the rise in national debt after 1762 shown in the table?

The creation of new taxes on the American colonies

British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. The Act levied a tax on all printed material in the American colonies, leading to widespread protests. Why did the American colonists object to the Stamp Act?

They believed that Parliament had no right to tax them as they had no direct representation in that legislative body

Why did Native American tribes join together against the British in the rebellion known as Pontiac's Uprising (1763-1766) following the Seven Years' War?

They objected to the British taking over territory that had been ceded by the French, claiming that the French had no right to give away Native American lands & Unlike the French, the British did not maintain trade relations with Native Americans, and refused to sell them the weapons and ammunition they needed to hunt

How did American colonists respond to the passage of the Townshend Acts of 1768, which aimed to raise revenue by imposing taxes on glass, lead, paint, and tea?

They organized boycotts of British goods, and merchants signed nonimportation agreements vowing not to buy or sell British goods & They formed committees of correspondence to rally opposition to British policies and educate colonists about their rights

Delegates from Southern states demanded that the Framers of the Constitution agree to the Three-Fifths Compromise, which stipulated that

Three-fifths of the enslaved population of a state would be counted toward a state's population, thereby boosting the power of slave states in the House of Representatives

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Why was it adopted?

To allay concerns that the creation of a more powerful central government lead to tyranny & To enumerate explicit protections for individual rights and civil liberties

James Madison drafted one possible plan for a new American legislature, known as the Virginia Plan. The Virginia Plan called for...

a bicameral legislature in which representation in Congress would be based on population, benefitting larger states

The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan were eventually brought together in the Connecticut Compromise, which created

a bicameral legislature, featuring a lower house based on population and an upper house where each state had two votes.

The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan were eventually brought together in the Connecticut Compromise, which created...

a bicameral legislature, featuring a lower house based on population and an upper house where each state had two votes.

The New Jersey Plan provided an alternate approach to Madison's Virginia Plan. The New Jersey Plan called for..

a unicameral legislature with one vote for each state, giving equal representation to large and small states

The minute men, American Revolutionary War soldiers so named for their willingness to fight at a moment's notice, reflected

colonial leaders' preference for local and state militias over a standing army in times of peace, as codified in the Articles of Confederation.

At the First Continental Congress in 1774, delegates from each colony met in Philadelphia to

coordinate a unified colonial response to the Coercive Acts.

Which of the following was an action taken by colonial representatives at the Second Continental Congress:

declaring independence from the British Empire.

The Treaty of Paris in 1763

ended the Seven Years' War. & granted all of North America east of the Mississippi to the British Empire.

The Boston Massacre is an example of...

how the presence of British soldiers in American cities fueled many of the colonial resentments that brought on the American Revolution.

At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, delegates from 12 states debated

how to organize a central government that was sufficiently powerful while maintaining a balance of power between states.

The British Empire's Proclamation of 1763 prohibited white settlers from crossing over the Appalachian mountains into territory reserved for Native Americans. White settlers responded by...

ignoring the Proclamation Line and protesting against the British Empire's attempt to contain westward migration.

The Sons of Liberty were

members of a secret society that rebelled against the British Empire through protests that were often violent and destructive.

In response to the Boston Tea Party, when American colonists dumped more than ten thousand pounds' worth of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation policies, Parliament...

passed the Coercive Acts (also called the Intolerable Acts), a series of punitive measures aimed at subduing the Massachusetts colony.

Proponents of colonial taxation in Parliament argued that despite their cries of "no taxation without representation!" American colonies were represented in Parliament through

virtual representation: members of Parliament were obligated to defend the interests of British subjects and colonists alike.