Road to Revolution

Multiple Choice

The French and Indian War was very _______________ for the British.

• cheap

• expensive

• long

Multiple Choice

Who did the King feel should pay for the war?

• British

• colonists

• Spain

Multiple Choice

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger colonists?

• The law restricted colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• The decree returned land back to Native Americans.

• The law allowed enslaved Africans to purchase plantations

• The proclamation declared the colonies independent.

Multiple Choice

What does smuggle mean?

• To refuse to buy something

• To send a document making a demand

• To make a top secret group

• To sneak goods in or out

Multiple Choice

How did colonists avoid paying the sugar tax?

• By buying sugar and molasses from France

• By smuggling goods into the colonies

• By making their own sugar and molasses

• They didn't avoid it and just paid the taxes anyway

Multiple Choice

What does boycott mean?

• To send a letter demanding change

• To refuse to buy goods

• To sneak goods in or out

• To spread news

Multiple Choice

The British made the colonists pay a tax on all paper that they bought. This tax was created by what act?

• Paper Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Wood Act

Multiple Choice

In 1766, the British government decided to repeal the _________ Act. This caused Parliament to look for new ways to bring in revenue.

• Declaratory

• Sugar

• Stamp

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Which law taxed goods like legal documents, wills, newspapers, playing cards, etc.?

• Navigation Acts

• Pamphlet Act

• Stamp Act

• War Debt Act

Multiple Choice

These acts placed a tax only on imported goods like paper, glass, tea, and lead.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• Writs of Assistance

Multiple Choice

What slogan did the colonists use as a protest?

• No taxation without representation

• No tea without the sea

• We make noise till you hear our voice

• No acts without the facts

Multiple Choice

The colonists resented the passage of taxation laws because they had no representation in England, and did not give their consent

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The man that started the Sons of Liberty was?

• Patrick Henry
• John Adams
• Sam Adams
• Benjamin Franklin

Multiple Choice

Crispus Attucks was immortalized during the Boston Massacre known as . . .

• the British soldier who fired first.

• an eyewitness to the event.

• the first person to die in the attacks.

• the creator of a famous engraving of the attacks.

Multiple Choice

Paul Revere's image of the Boston Massacre was used as . . .

• anti-British propaganda

• anti-Colonist propaganda

• pro-redcoat propaganda

• pro-redcoat propaganda

Multiple Choice

The Boston Massacre engraving was......

• accurate

• inaccurate

Multiple Choice

Which answer best explains why the Boston Massacre is considered a "turning point in history?"

• It was an event leading to the Revolutionary War.

• It was a tragic event that changed many colonists attitudes to support independence from Great Britain.

• It was a horrible attack on colonist from the British Redcoats guarding the Customs House in Boston.

• It was betrayal of loyalty.

Open Ended

Why do you think the colonists preferred to buy tea on the black market?

Multiple Choice

How did the colonist protest against the tea tax?

• Dressed up like Native Americans
• Boston Massacre
• Dumped tea into Boston harbor
• Didn't pay the tax on the East India Tea

Multiple Choice

The colonists dressed like

• Frenchmen
• Halloween costumes
• sailors
• Native Americans

Multiple Choice

What event does this picture show?

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Committee of Correspondence

• The First Continental Congress

Multiple Choice

Series of Acts designed to punish Colonists for the Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Acts

• Martial Law

• Intolerable Acts

• Tyranny

Multiple Choice

These acts were passed by British Parliament in
order to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea
Party

• Tea Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

Multiple Choice

What was The other name for the Intolerable Act?

• Stamp act
• Coercive Act
• Sugar Act 
• Military Act

The Colonies Begin to Unite

 In fact, the Intolerable Acts did not force the colonists to give in. Boston Patriots declared they would “abandon their city to flames” before paying a penny for the lost tea. Colonists in other cities showed their support by closing their shops, or by sending food and money to Boston so that its citizens would not starve.

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In Virginia, lawmakers drafted a resolution in support of Massachusetts. The Virginians said that everyone's rights were at stake. “An attack made on one of our sister colonies,” they declared, “is an attack made on all British America.”

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The Virginians also called for a congress, or meeting, of delegates from all the colonies. The purpose of the congress would be to find a peaceful solution to the conflicts with Great Britain.

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Not all Americans agreed with this plan. In every colony, there were Loyalists who thought that Bostonians had gone too far and should pay for the tea. If they were forced to choose, they would side with the king against Sam Adams and his Sons of Liberty. In their view, it was the misguided Patriots who were causing all the trouble.

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Multiple Choice

Someone who supported independence from Britain.

• Loyalist

• Neutralists

• Patriot

• Generalist

Multiple Choice

Someone who was against independence from Britain.

• Loyalist

• Neutralists

• Patriot

• Generalist

Poll

WHICH TAX DO YOU BELIEVE WAS THE MOST "HURTFUL" TO THE COLONISTS FROM THE LIST WE DISCUSSED?

• THE INTOLERABLE ACTS

• THE SUGAR ACT

• THE TOWNSHEND ACTS

• THE STAMP ACT

Open Ended

Explain how the Intolerable Acts are a turning point in the British/American relationship. (3-5 sentences)

Poll

What were your thoughts on today's lesson?