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The Struggle For North America.
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What does it mean if you were a Loyalist?
a) volunteer soldier
b) American who supported the Revolution
c) supported Great Britain
d)
What is a delegate?
a) people who were chosen to represent a group of people
b) a volunteer soldier
c) a large, rapid rise in prices
d)
What is profiteering?
a) charging high prices from hoarded goods
b) large, rapid rise in prices
c) volunteer soldiers
d)
What does desert mean?
a) to abandon or leave
b) agreement to work together
c) supporting Great Britain
d)
Who were the militia?
a) people chosen to represent a group of people
b) Americans who supported Great Britain
c) volunteer soldiers who fought in an emergency
d)
The drop in the value of Continentals led to inflation. What is inflation?
a) large, rapid rise in prices
b) charging high prices from hoarded goods
c) refusal to buy goods or services
d)
What was the Treaty of Alliance?
a) an agreement to work together
b) refusal to buy goods or services
c) document stating that the colonies were free from Great Britain
d)
The Stamp Act caused the colonists to stage a boycott. What is a boycott?
a) refusal to buy goods or services
b) charging high prices from hoarded goods
c) large, rapid rise in prices
d)
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) Thomas Paine
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) John Burgoyne
Who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence (he did so VERY LARGELY)?
a) John Hancock
b) John Adams
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) Benjamin Franklin
Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
a) George Washington
b) Charles Cornwallis
c) Marquis de Lafayette
d)
A dispute over land led to the French and Indian War. What were the two sides of the war?
a) French v. Indian
b) French v. Indian and British
c) British v. French and Indian
d) Spanish v. French and Indian
What ended the French and Indian War?
a) Treaty of Alliance
b) Treaty of Paris
c) Boston Massacre
d)
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
a) an official announcement that set aside land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native Americans
b) an official announcement gaining independence from Britain
c) an official announcement of boycotting goods from Britain
d)
What was the Stamp Act?
a) tax on paper products
b) hands to be stamped to enter certain parts of town
c) tax on postage stamps
d)
In 1766 Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act. What is repeal?
a) end
b) do it over again
c) delegate
d)
The Boston Massacre wasn't really a true massacre, because only a small amount of colonists were killed. Why was it called a massacre?
a) to get rid of the British
b) many colonists died
c) colonists and soldiers died
d)
What was the Boston Tea Party?
a) upset about taxes, Americans dumped British tea overboard into the Boston Harbor
b) Americans celebrated a victory with tea
c) selling of a lot of tea in Boston
d)
Why were many American colonists so upset with Britain?
a) no taxation without representation
b) King George made them wear red clothes every day
c) didn't make enough money
d)
Why did Britain tax the colonists?
a) they had war debts from the French Indian War
b) because of the Declaration of Independence
c) because of the Proclamation of 1763
d)
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