Unit 3 STAAR Assessment Review
1. What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
2. The Proclamation of 1763 (Proclamation Act) prohibited colonial settlement west of
what?
3. The Proclamation was created to prevent conflict between what two groups?
4. Why did the colonists dislike the Proclamation?
5. The colonists felt that British tax laws (Stamp Act, Tea Act, Sugar Act, etc) was
important because __________ of the 13 colonies were present showing unity.
6. Why did the British create new taxes on the colonists after the French and Indian War?
7. “No taxation without representation” was a slogan used by the colonists because they
lacked representation in _____________________. They believed they had they had the
right to have a say in their government (consent of the governed).
8. The committees of correspondence, petitions to the king, the Boston tea party, the First
Continental Congress, tar and feathering, etc were colonial responses to
_______________ policies.
9. The economic system of ________________________ required the colonist to sell their
__________ materials to England and to buy their __________________________ goods
from England
10. Parliament believed that they had the right to tax the colonists to repay ______________
made in their defense.
11. The main purpose of government as stated in the Declaration of Independence is to
protect what?
12. The colonists wrote what document in order to state their reasons for separation from
Great Britain?
13. Loyalist14. Patriot-
15. France helped America defeat Britain and end the American Revolution in what battle?
16. The Battles of Lexington and Concord is known as?
17. What American victory persuaded France to ally with America and is known as the
turning point in the Revolution?
18. What officially ended the Revolutionary War?
19. Because of the British government’s use of writs of assistance on the American colonists,
we added the 4th amendment to the Bill of Rights which protects us from what?
20. Which amendment was created because of the Quartering Act?
21. Congress can override a presidential __________ with a _____________ majority vote in
both houses. This was added because in the Declaration one of the grievances against the
king was “he refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public
good.”
22. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are examples of what rights?
23. List the 5 parts of the Declaration of Independence.
24. Who has unalienable rights?
25. Boycott26. Civil Disobedience27. Give an example of civil disobedience that occurred during the Revolutionary War Era.
28. Why did John Paul Jones receive the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his “valor
and brilliant services?”
29. The last major battle of the war was?