Social Studies 1102: Self Test 1

First Continental Congress

1774

Place these events in proper sequence. _____ the Committees of Correspondence _____ The Boston Tea Party _____ French and Indian War _____ the Stamp Act _____ the Intolerable Acts

3 4 1 2 5

Intolerable Acts

Boston

The First Continental Congress drew up a _______________.

Declaration of Rights and Governors

In 1760 the English captured ________ and forts along the Great Lakes.

Detroit

George Washington

Fort Necessity

The Boston lawyer who opposed the writs of assistance was ___________.

James Otis

Name two men whose arrest resulted in the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes.

John Hancock Samuel Adams

The Treaty of Paris, 1763, returned _________ to France.

Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti

The man who said "If this be treason, make the most of it," was _______.

Patrick Henry

Grenville's program included the ________.

Quartering Act

How was the situation of the colonies changed when the French and Indian War ended?

Relieved they no longer had to depend on England for protection against the French. Gained military experience. Relationship with England changed, they were no longer so dependent upon them.

Committees of Correspondence

Sam Adams

In protest of the Stamp Act, the ________________ boycotted English goods.

Sons of Liberty

What did the First Continental Congress hope to achieve?

They hoped to have the Intolerable Acts revoked. Americans would arm themselves. King would settle dispute.

Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie

Virginia

The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish Boston for the a. ____________. They included b. ________________ and c. ________________.

a. Boston Tea Party b. closing the port of Boston

Name five acts or taxes that controlled trade of specific items.

a. Wool Act b. Stamps Tax c. Sugar Act d. Hat Act e. Molasses Act

Name four reasons the Navigation Acts were not enforced by England.

a. the English were busy with affairs of the empire b. a series of wars with France c. a struggle being waged between the king and parliament d. the great distance between England and the colonies and the long, irregular American coastline

The Revolution was not caused so much by the acts of the British government, as by the ______________ of both British and Americans.

attitudes

From their beginning, the Navigation Acts were strictly enforced.

false

Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie was known for his defeat of the French at Quebec.

false

The idea that the power of a country is measured in terms of gold and silver is called the _______________.

mercantilism

The Townshend program levied taxes to pay ________________.

salaries of those enforcing the law

The regulation that permitted the English to search colonial homes was ________.

the writs of assistance

The first move by the British after the French and Indian War was the Proclamation Act of 1763 who function was _______________.

to close all land west of the Alleghany Mountains

The colonists called the Albany Congress to encourage unity.

true

The shortage of money in the colonies forced the colonists to use a system of barter.

true

The French and Indian War was the final war between France and England.

trued