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Which of the following was a tax on special paper that especially impacted lawyers, ministers, merchants, and newspaper printers?
a) Sugar Act of 1764
b) Navigation Acts
c) Intolerable Acts
d) Stamp Act of 1765

John Locke believed the government should
a) violate peoples natural rights
b) help only the wealthy citizens
c) use the military to control the citizens
d) protect citizen’s natural rights

The Treaty of Paris of 1783
a) kicked the French out of North America
b) eventually became a major cause of the Mexican War
c) granted the United States independence from England
d) gave the city of Paris to England

Why did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774?
a) To discuss increasing trade with the British
b) To convince Boston to pay for the tea destroyed at the Boston Tea Party
c) To discuss the growing problems with England and create the “Minutemen”
d) To discuss Native American policies in the colonies

The “Great Awakening” was
a) a phrase used to justify the institution of slavery as being beneficial to African Americans
b) the movement to educate women in early colonial America for more active roles in raising children
c) a series of religious revivals that swept across the American colonies in the middle of the 18th century
d) the spreading of the abolitionist movement in response to the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Why is it called the French and Indian War?
a) France will join with their Native American allies to attack the English`
b) France will fight the Native Americans
c) The Native Americans refused to fight in the war
d) France and Native Americans controlled most of the land in North America

Which of these was the GREATEST influence and inspiration to the American Revolution?
a) The Reformation
b) The Enlightenment
c) The French Revolution
d) The Scientific Revolution

What was the name given to European colonists who agreed to work for seven years in exchange for a free trip to the colonies from Europe?
a) slaves
b) indentured servants
c) encomenderos
d) conquistadors

Bacon’s Rebellion resulted in what significant development?
a) The Virginia House of Burgesses passed a series of laws that guaranteed the property rights of the Powhatans
b) Rebels seized the estate of Viriginia governor William Berkeley and divided his lands among their Indian supporters
c) Greater dependence on African slaves as a labor source instead of indentured servants.
d) The Virginia House of Burgesses returned the lands that were seized from the Powhatans during the fighting

What commercial activity was most important to the economy of the Southern colonies ?
a) production of grain crops to feed the colonies
b) lumber and shipbuilding
c) subsistence farming
d) production of rum and Trans-atlantic trade

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