Causes of the Revolution

Why did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

• Angered the colonists because they couldn't move West of the Appalachian  Mountains
• Angered the colonists because they didn't want to pay a tax on stamps
• Left France in a war debt that caused them to tax the colonists
• Left Britain in a war debt that caused them to tax the colonists

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp and Sugar Acts?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

How did Parliament respond to protests against the Stamp Act? 

• It sent troops to enforce the law.
• It allowed a representative from the colonies to attend its sessions.
•  It repealed the law.
• It passed the Tea Act.

What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Navigation Act

What law made it very expensive for colonists to import and export molasses, paint, tea and other goods?

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Acts

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

After the Boston Tea Party...

• England did not tax the colonists
• King George surrendered
• King George closed Boston Harbor and created the Intolerable Acts

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

True or False
The Townshend Acts placed a tax on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea.

• True
• False

Colonists protested against many of the new taxes imposed on them buying refusing to buy British goods. This is called a ...

• Protest
• Sit In
• Shop Stop
• Boycott

This act allowed the British East India Co. to sell tea directly to the colonist, cutting out the American merchants. American merchants could have been wiped out.

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