Chapter 7 The Road to Revolution   1. The British taxed the American colonies to raise money needed to ____________     A) pay for new settlements west of the Appalachians.     B) pay the cost of the French and Indian War.     C) keep the British East India Company in business.     D) increase its authority over the colonies.   2. The Intolerable Acts did all the following EXCEPT ____________     A) reduce the amount of self-government in Massachusetts.     B) start a collection to pay for the Boston Tea Party.     C ) close the port of Boston.     D) allow quartering of British troops anywhere in Massachusetts.   3. Actions taken by the First Continental Congress included ____________     A) plans for increased trade with Britain and the West Indies.     B) requests for more British troops in Boston.     C) statements of disloyalty to King George, III.     D) a request for the repeal of the Coercive Acts.   4. The battle fought on the route from Concord to Boston was important because it ____________     A) convinced William Pitt to withdraw British troops from the colonies.     B) marked the beginning of the American Revolution.     C) cost the British few casualties.     D) caused the Continental Congress to meet again.   5. The Second Continental Congress chose George Washington to ____________     A) build a Continental Army.     B) start militia drills on village greens in Massachusetts.     C) beg King George III to stop the war and make peace with the colonies.     D) take a military stand at North Bridge, outside Concord.   6. In America, a person's social class depended upon ____________     A) culture and homeland.     B) wealth and occupation.     C) family and tradition     D) family and wealth   7. The Great Awakening occurred because ____________     A) people had so little interest in success or wealth.     B) ministers thought people were drifting from religion.     C) religious persecution caused people to come to America.     D) religious revivals had been outlawed by England.   8. As a result of the Great Awakening, colonial Americans began to ____________     A) teach science in their colleges.     B) make money in America and then return to their homelands.     C) feel more united and open to people of all social classes.     D) pay less attention to religious preachers.   9. John Locke's writings included all the following ideas EXCEPT ____________     A) a government that does not live up to its purpose should be changed.     B) anyone can be a success with hard work.     C) the purpose of government is to protect natural rights.     D) life, liberty, and property ownership are natural rights.   10. All of the following people were colonial writers EXCEPT ____________     A) John Smith.     B) Sir Isaac Newton.     C) Anne Dudley Bradstreet.     D) Phillis Wheatley.   11. In Europe the North American struggle known as the French and Indian War was called ____________     A) Queen Anne's War.     B) King William's War.     C) The Seven Years' War.     D) King George's War.   12. By 1750, British and French quarrels over land and the fur trade centered in ____________     A) Georgia and Florida.     B) the Ohio Valley.     C) New France.     D) the St. Lawrence River valley.   13. The thirteen British colonies rejected the Albany Plan of Union because ____________     A) land companies were making profits west of the Appalachians.     B) each colony wanted to control its own taxes and military.     C) the Iroquois refused to support it.     D) they had already built a string of forts in Ohio.   14. The course of the French and Indian War changed under the British minister of war, ____________     A) William Pitt.     B) George Washington.     C) James Wolfe.     D) Jeffrey Amherst.   15. American colonists protested the Stamp Act because it ____________     A) warned the colonists that Parliament could rule and tax them.     B) violated the idea of no taxation without representation.     C) taxed French molasses bought by New England merchants.     D) required colonists to pay for the quartering of British soldiers.