SC HISTORY: 8-2.1, 8-2.2, 8-2.3 Study Guide

  1. In the mid-1700’s, Great Britain and France faced off in a major European power struggle known as the Seven Years’ War. In the American Colonies, this conflict was known as:
  1. How did the French and Indian War get its name?
  2. The British and French both colonized North America and practiced the economic system of mercantilism. This led to fighting over the area known as the:
  1. Why did most South Carolina settlers side with the British over the French in the French and Indian War?
  1. The French and Indian War contributed to the Cherokee War. The Cherokee War was a conflict between the Cherokee Tribe and South Carolina colonists fought in the:
  1. The Cherokee War began because the British:
  2. During the French and Indian War, the British tried to control the Cherokee Natives by doing what two things:
  1. What territories did Spain and France lose as a result of the French and Indian War?
  2. South Carolina colonists benefited from the British victory in the French and Indian War because there was an increase in the:
  1. The French and Indian War was one of the leading causes of the American Revolution because after the War, the British government had a:
  1. The French and Indian War led to Great Britain becoming the:
  2. Taxes imposed by the British government infuriated colonists who wanted the ______to impose taxes.
  3. The Stamp Act was a:
  4. Colonists protested and boycotted British goods because they believed Parliament’s taxes were examples of:
  1. The colonists’ reaction to the Stamp Act was to organize the ______and ______British goods.
  1. The Tea Act was a law that:
  2. Under what law was a tax placed upon tea?
  3. To protest the tax on tea, the Sons of Liberty organized tea parties and boycotts. But the Sons of Liberty worried their tea boycott would be unsuccessful because the East India Tea Company:
  1. Although the Boston Tea Party is the most famous protest against the tax on tea, other tea parties were held in areas throughout the South Carolina colony such as:
  1. American colonists who supported the Patriot cause felt the Intolerable Acts were a:
  2. Loyalists who supported the British were often persuaded and intimidated by the Sons of Liberty to:
  1. The main idea of the above illustration, designed by South Carolinian Christopher Gadsden was:
  1. The South Carolina colonial government chose delegates to attend the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In addition, to govern South Carolina, the representatives established:
  1. In 1774, the MAIN purposes of the First Continental Congress were to:
  2. Delegates at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia elected this South Carolinian as President of the Congress.
  1. Representatives at the First Continental Congress chose to establish a non-importation, non-exportation agreement to stop all trade with Great Britain. The only exception, which SC delegates argued in favor of trading was:
  1. Delegates decided to meet again at the Second Continental Congress following the Battle at:
  2. Four South Carolina delegates who attended the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia and supported American independence were:
  1. What were the four characteristics shared by all four South Carolina delegates:
  2. The Declaration of Independence was based on the ideas of:
  3. Two ideals of democracy that were included in the Declaration of Independence were:
  4. In the Declaration of Independence, security of all natural rights is the responsibility of the:
  5. In addition to declaring ideals of democracy, a main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to state that the colonies wished to break ties with the: