Pre-AP Pre-Revolutionary Era Test Review

Question 1

Which act came directly after the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Declaratory Act

Question 2

Early British laws dealt with colonial-Native American interactions. What's a similar example?

Accepted Answer

Nathanial Bacon

Question 3

What did the Stamp Act do?

Accepted Answer

Tax on paper goods

Question 4

Who traveled to England to try to solve issues between the British government and colonists?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Question 5

Who was negatively and directly affected by the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

merchants, lawyers

Question 6

Why did the British government institute taxes during the 1760s and 1770s?

Accepted Answer

pay off debts from Seven Years' War

Question 7

How did the British government punish Boston after the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

another Quartering Act, limited town meetings, trials to be held in England, close the Boston Habor

Question 8

The Stamp Act was the first example of a

Accepted Answer

direct tax

Question 9

Common Sense was written by

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

Question 10

Which barred colonists from expanding westward?

Accepted Answer

Proclamation of 1763

Question 11

What group of people wanted to protect the rights of colonists by intimidating tax collectors?

Accepted Answer

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Question 12

A common colonial reaction to taxes during the 1760s was

Accepted Answer

boycotting

Question 13

Which of the following influenced Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 14

The Coercive Acts did which of the following?

Accepted Answer

limit self-rule for colonies

Question 15

Put the following acts in the correct chronological order

Accepted Answer

Sugar, Stamp, Townshend, Tea, Intolerable

Questions 15