VS 5.4.1 - Road to Revolution

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

The Declaration of Independence was written to formally declare to the people and to the King of England that the colonies were separating from England and they wanted to explain why.

• True
• False

A group of colonists dressed as Indians and dumped British tea into the ocean. The became known as the Boston Tea party.

• True
• False

Which event was the American colonists telling Great Britain that they were leaving the British Empire to form their own, independent country?

• Battle of Saratoga
• Declaration of Independence
• Surrender at Yorktown
• Treaty of Paris

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are referred to by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as...

• unnatural rights
• inalienable rights
• amendments
• proclamation of 1763

Which of the following was a group of people who made laws for all of Great Britain?

• proprietor
• governor
• colonial legislature
• Parliament

Which British person was directing in charge of overseeing a colony/ making sure colonists followed British rules & laws?

• proprietor
• governor
• colonial legislature
• Parliament

Colonists were angry about the tax on tea and when they had to buy it from a certain company they became angrier. The Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded 3 ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor.

• Boston Massacre
• The Tea Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Tea Party

Why were the American Colonists upset with the British government?

• King George and the Parliament were taxing the colonists unfairly.

• They threw tea into the harbor.

• The British were shooting at them.

• The British were stealing their tea.

What was one purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• to establish a framework for government
• to state the reasons for the colonies to separate from England
• to express reasons for limiting immigration
• to list arguments for women's suffrage