Revolutionary Causes

Why did General Gage march his troops from Boston into the countryside in April of 1775?

• for fun
• to capture Billy Dawes
• to arrest patriot leaders and destroy the militia's supplies
• to break up the Albany Plan of Union

Why did the British impose the Stamp Act on the Colonists?

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  To raise money in the colonies to pay the costs of defending them
• To put a tax on the colonists’ trade with foreign nations
• to prevent the colonists from trading with Canada 
• to prevent smuggling

Who were the Son's of Liberty?

• A group that trained troops to respond to British tyranny
• A group that organized peaceful and violent protests against Parliament's laws
• A group that helped enforce the Stamp Act
• A group that disliked patriots.

What happened in Boston on March 5, 1770?

• The Boston Tea Party
• The Boston Massacre
• The Battle of Lexington and Concord
• The Battle of Breed's Hill

Most colonists didn't like the Proclamation of 1763 because it prevented settlers from...

• settling the Ohio Valley
• Smuggling sugar
• Drinking foreign tea
• taxing their own goods

Which law made the colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents?

• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act

Which act said that Great Britain had the authority to rule the colonies.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the...

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

Which of these allowed British officials the authority to search colonists' homes and businesses without probable cause?

• writs of habeas corpus

• writs of assistance

• the quartering act

• the coercive acts

Which happened first?

• Stamp Act
• Boston Massacre
• Intolerable Acts
• Quartering Act