History Formative

Question 1

What are the three long term causes of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

Distance, enlightenment, and the French and Indian War

Question 2

What are the short term causes?

Answer 2

Proclamation of 1763, sugar act, quartering act, and stamp act

Question 3

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 3

The king passed an order for colonists to stay eat of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 4

What was the sugar act?

Answer 4

An act that reduced the tax on molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon

Question 5

What was the quartering act?

Answer 5

Required colonies to let the soldier stay in their house with no say what so ever

Question 6

What was the stamp act?

Answer 6

Place tax on legal documents, newspapers, dice, and playing cards

Question 7

What was the point of the stamp act?

Answer 7

to make up for 1/3 of cost of stationing troops

Question 8

Why was the quartering act made?

Answer 8

Because they had to station troops in the colonies and they didn’t want to pay for more building to be made

Question 9

What was the point of the sugar act?

Answer 9

To make smuggling less profitable

Question 10

What is another name for what the sugar act did?

Answer 10

Indirect tax

Question 11

What was the point of the proclamation of 1763?

Answer 11

To prevent further fighting between the Indians and colonies

Question 12

When was the proclamation?

Answer 12

1763

Question 13

What was the date of the French and Indian war

Answer 13

1754-1763

Question 14

What was the date of the sugar act?

Answer 14

1764

Question 15

What was the date of the stamp act?

Answer 15

1765

Question 16

What was the date of the quartering act?

Answer 16

1765

Question 17

Why was distance a problem?

Answer 17

British had no control over the colonies because they were 3,000 miles away

Question 18

What was the enlightenment?

Answer 18

It spread the idea that emphasized reason and science

Question 19

What centuries was the enlightenment?

Answer 19

16th century and 18th century

Question 20

Who fought in the French and Indian War?

Answer 20

French w/ natives and British w/ colonists

Question 21

Who won the F/I war?

Answer 21

British

Question 22

What was the war over?

Answer 22

The Ohio River Valley

Question 23

What was the French’s greatest advantage?

Answer 23

Support of indians

Question 24

What did Britain want to do with the French?

Answer 24

Get the France out of all of north america

Question 25

Who was British’s rival?

Answer 25

France

Question 26

Who had more colonial population in 1754?

Answer 26

British