Causes of the Revolutionary War QUIZ
1. The Proclamation Line of 1763:
a. allowed colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
b. prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
c. allowed colonists to settle in Quebec
d. prohibited colonists to settle in Quebec
2. The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to
a. raise revenues to support British troops stationed in the colonies
b. reduce colonial consumption of foreign goods
c. impose a mercantilist system on the colonies
d. reduce the authority of the colonial assemblies
3. During the 1760s and 1770s the most effective American tactic in gaining the repeal of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts was:
a. Tarring and feathering British tax agents.
b. Boycotting British goods.
c. Destroying private property on which a tax was levied.
d. Using death threats to intimidate British agents.
4. Which was a direct result of the Boston Tea Party?
a. Townshend Acts
b. Tea Act
c. Coercive Acts
d. Declaratory Act
5. In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine defended the idea of American independence on what grounds
a. all men are created equal
b. American independence was a reasonable and natural outcome.
c. France would better protect American rights than Great Britain had.
d. Parliament had become corrupt.
6. The French and Indian War was a pivotal point in America's relationship to Great Britain because it led Great Britain to:
a. encourage colonial manufactures
b. impose revenue taxes on the colonies
c. ignore the colonies
d. restrict immigration from England
7. The “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at:
a. Lexington and Concord
b. Boston
c. Bunker Hill
d. Saratoga
8. The most important cause of the American Revolution was:
a. the American desire to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific
b. the struggle between England and France for world supremacy
c. the British abandonment of the policy of "salutary neglect”
d. the British violation of the principle of "freedom of the seas”
9. Which of the following statements accurately describes what is taking place in the above cartoon?
a. A colonial merchant is being punished for violating the Navigation Acts.
b. A Quaker in Massachusetts Bay is being punished for violating the Sabbath.
c. A French fur trapper in the Ohio River Valley is being tortured.
d. The Sons of Liberty are punishing someone who purchased tea in Boston.
Use the following answer choices to answer questions 10-13:
a. Boycott
b. Stamp Act
c. Albany Plan
d. Proclamation of 1763
e. Townshend Acts
10. Benjamin Franklin’s ______was an attempt to unite the colonies for the purpose of self-defense during the French and Indian War
11. The ______set a boundary along the Appalachian Mountains beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle in order to prevent conflicts between colonist and Native Americans on the frontier.
12. During the 1760s one of the most effective American tactics to protest British taxes was to ______British manufactured goods and wear clothes called “homespuns”.
13. The primary purpose of the ______, along with the Sugar Act, was to raise revenue to support British troops stationed in the colonies immediately after the French and Indian War.
Use the following answer choices to answer questions 14-18:
a. Common Sense
b. Boston Massacre
c. Coercive Acts
d. Boston Tea Party
e. Sugar Act
14. “The Declaration of Rights and Grievances” enacted by the First Continental Congress was written in direct response to the ______.
15. The revolutionary document ______defended the idea of American independence on the grounds that American independence was a reasonable and natural outcome.
16. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament in response to the ______, in which angry colonists had destroyed British merchandise.
17. Immediately after the French and Indian War, the main reason Parliament enacted the ______was to force American colonists to pay for their own defense on the western frontier.
18. The engraving below by Paul Revere was a piece of political propaganda used to spread the radical Whig belief that standing armies were instruments of tyranny. It depicted the ______.