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- 1. Multiple ChoiceHow did the Second Continental Congress respond to British policies?They started the French and Indian War.They chose a committee to write the Declaration of Independence explaining why the colonies should be free.They passed the Tea Act, allowing a British company to import tea to the colonies without paying taxes.They hired Thomas Paine to write Common Sense.
- 2. Multiple Choice
According to this passage, what is the principal role of government?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
To promote the creation of new laws
To protect the natural rights of citizens
To glorify the ruler in the eyes of the Creator
To decide which individuals have natural rights
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe Declaration of Independence states, “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.” Which Enlightened idea do these words describe?need to ensure a representative government.social contract between government and the people.revolutionary intent to overthrow the current government.return to a society that has no central authority.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe List of Grievances were the part of the Declaration thatdetailed the colonists' complaints with King George.listed a man's natural rights.introduced the Declaration.concluded the Declaration, declaring America a free country.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the purpose of the following lines from the declaration?
"He has dissolved our legislative assemblies"
“ He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies ” “For imposing taxes on us without consent”
“ For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury”
To justify independence by giving examples of complaints about rights violated by King George and the British government
To give examples of complaints against the American government, asking King George III to fix them
To request that the king protect certain rights and complain about rights that colonists didn't have
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did colonists feel that they had a right to NOT pay British taxes?They were not represented in the British government.England was to far away to send taxes to. - 7. Multiple ChoiceThis political cartoon was used to gain colonist support for...Declaring loyalty to the British crown.Declaring independence from Britain.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceFinish the timeline...
1. French and Indian War
2. King of England taxes the colonies
3. 1st Continental Congress
4. England ignores colonists request for changeColonists throw tea into the Boston Harbor.Colonists boycott British goods.Declaration of Independence is written.Stamp Act is repealed. - 9. Multiple ChoiceThomas Jefferson used this term _______________ to mean the same thing as natural rights.alter or abolishself evidentunalienableendowded
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which Constitutional principle means that no one is above the law?
Rule of Law
Checks and Balances
Equal Protection of the Law
Justice for All
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Thomas Jefferson mean when he wrote, "They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights".Citizens have the right to unlimited property.Citizens have rights and liberties that should be protected by the government.Citizens have the right to create stuff.Citizens have the right to believe in aliens.
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe January 1776 publication of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, _____.caused Parliament to sympathize with the American colonieshad little effect on the attitudes of colonistsmoved the colonies closer to declaring independenceoccurred just after the Declaration of Independence
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the Magna Carta do?Gave more power to the KingLimited the power of the KingGot rid of the Feudal System in EnglandGave more power to the Common People
- 14. Multiple Choice
What was the government document written in 1689 that expanded the powers of the English Parliament, expanded the rights of the people, and further limited the rights of the king?
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
Common Sense
- 15. Multiple Choice
What was the agreement, written by English Puritans, that created a self-government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists?
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Independence
- 16. Multiple Choice
The Mayflower Compact promoted the big idea of...
self-government
due process
rights
rule of law
- 17. Multiple Choice
The following quote, as written in the Magna Carta, “No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned…exiled, or in any way harmed…save by the lawful judgment of his peers [equals]” means which of the following?
security of lawful judgment
rule of law
due process of law
the right to trial by a jury
- 18. Multiple Choice
Why did Parliament eventually repeal the Stamp Act, which taxed goods such as newspapers and playing cards?
The colonists established a blockade against British goods
The colonists were able to produce their own goods
The colonists started destroying British goods
The colonists began boycotting British goods.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Following the _______, England taxed the colonies to pay its debt and limited westward expansion with the Proclamation of 1763. Both of these actions angered the colonists.
French and Indian War
American Revolution
War of 1812
Civil War
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat Enlightenment idea did Montesquieu support?Right to a fair trialFreedom of SpeechFreedom of ReligionSeparation of Powers
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThis is the reason that the 1st Continental Congress met?because of the Intolerable Actsbecause of the Boston Massacrebecause of Lexington/Concordto repeal the Stamp Act
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the British Government start taxing the American Colonists?To raise money for the Royal NavyTo pay off the war debt from the French and Indian WarTo create a new source of revenue for the KingThe British Government didn't start taxing the colonists.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the name of the event when the colonists dumped tea into the Boston HarborBoston Tea PartyFrench and Indian WarProclamation of 1763Sugar Act
- 24. Multiple ChoiceThis Act made colonists buy stamps to place on all their printed documents.Tea ActQuartering ActIntolerable ActsStamp Act
- 25. Multiple Choice
What does “taxation without representation” mean?
taxing someone without giving them a voice in government
not taxing a certain group of people
taxing someone who does not live in the country
taxing everyone the same amount
- 26. Multiple Choice
What was the quartering act?
colonist were forced to house British soldiers in their homes
Colonist were forced to pay for the tea they destroyed
Colonist were forced to have meeting with the British
Colonist were forced to pay taxes on legal documents.
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhich Acts were passed as a direct result of the Boston Tea Party?Stamp ActSugar ActCoercive/Intolerable ActsTea Act
- 28. Multiple Choiceplaced taxes on glass, paints, paper, oil, tea, and moredeclaratory actfrench and indian wartownshend actsquartering act
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