Causes of the American Revolution

Laws such as the Quartering Act and the Boston Port Act were part of a group of laws called the

• Royal Proclamations
• Intolerable Acts
• Tea Acts
• Townshend Acts

Why was the group the Sons of Liberty formed?

• to fight for the British
• to take action against the British
• to attack Native Americans
• to spy on American colonists

Why did the British government leaders create new taxes for the American colonists to pay?

• they wanted to be rich
• they were celebrating their victory over the French
• they wanted them to help repay for the cost of the war
• they were angry from losing the war

What finally ended the French and Indian War in 1763?

• Treaty of Paris
• Royal Proclamation
• Intolerable Acts
• Townshend Acts

What two groups were fighting in the French and Indian War?

• British colonists and British troops
• British and French
• Indians and British
• French and Indians

The Boston Massacre was an event where British soldiers fired on and killed

• unarmed colonists
• colonial minutemen
• revolutionary policticians
• other British soldiers

The colonists that participated in the Boston Tea Party were disguised as which of the following?

• British soldiers
• prisoners of war
• tax collectors
• Mohawk Indians

What was the slogan the colonists used for with their lack of representation in the British Parliament?

• "taxes mean war"
• "no taxation without representation"
• "taxation with representation"
• "representation with no taxation"

The Boston Tea Party, the dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, was the colonists' response to which of the following?

• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Townshend Acts

The Intolerable Acts were laws created by the British Parliament in response to which of the following events?

• Treaty of Paris
• Boston Massacre
• Royal Proclamation
• Boston Tea Party