Chapter 3 (3.1-3.2) quiz History

What the Magna Carta did

A law that placed limits on the power of a ruler

Significance of English Bill of Rights

to make clear the limits of royal power

Samuel Adams view of British rule and his role in the colonies

A strong opponent of British taxation, Adams helped formulate resistance to the Stamp Act and played a vital role in organizing the Boston Tea Party. He was a second cousin of U.S. President John Adams, with whom he urged a final break from Great Britain, and a signee of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Who was the victor in the French and Indian War

Although the British won the war with the French, the British still faced pressing colonial problems that the Treaty of Paris only aggravated. The Indians in particular were angered by the provisions of peace that left little room for their concerns.

The event that directly started the Boston massacre

Events that led to the Boston Massacre. Since 1765 the people of Boston had been heading protests against British taxation, first against the Stamp Act and then in 1767 against the Townshend Acts.

The phrase that became popular after passage of the Stamp Act

No taxation without representation

The outcome of the First Continental Congress

Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774.

The result of the French and Indian War

The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. Effects Of The War. The British victory in the French and Indian War had a great impact on the British Empire. Firstly, it meant a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. But the cost of the war had greatly enlarged Britain's debt.

Lord North's response to news of the Boston Tea Party

The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

Who would The Proclamation of 1763 would most likely have upset

The King issued the Proclamation of 1763 prohibiting settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists who had already settled on these lands were ordered to return east of the mountains. ... They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. So these colonists were upset

The main effect of the Intolerable Acts on the colonies

The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Boston Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts Consequences and effects of the Intolerable Acts. ... Unfortunately for Britain, Intolerable Acts only made the situation worse by uniting the colonies in their protests to join the First Continental Congress on September 1774. The British wanted the colonists to pay England back for all the tea that the colonists destroyed during the Boston Tea Party. Parliament also wanted more control over the colonies so it passed a series of acts, called the Coercive Acts, in 1774.

The ways Massachusetts was punished for the Boston Tea Party

The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. Then they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. When word got back to England, Parliament and King George became very angry and decided to punish the Massachusetts colony. Parliament wanted to prove that the colonies needed to obey British laws. ... The colonists called all these new British laws the Intolerable Acts.

Why Parliament passed the Sugar Act

The purpose of lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies. The Sugar Act also increased enforcement of smuggling laws. Therefore Parliament passed the Sugar Act of 1764. It was the first tax enacted by the British against the colonists for the purpose of raising revenue. The Sugar Act created a new tax on molasses imported from non-British isles along the same lines as the Molasses Act but the tax was reduced by half. The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.

How did the colonists respond to the Navigation Acts

They started smuggling goods so they could trade with more people then England itself

What did King George hope would result from the Proclamation of 1763

This 'No Trespassing' sign was known as the Proclamation Line of 1763. Issued by King George III, the proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.