Causes of The American Revolution

What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?

• To allow colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
• To punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party
• To punish the Georgia colony for the Sugar Act
• To prevent the smuggling of molasses 

Why did Parliament choose to raise taxes on the American colonies beginning in 1763?

• To help pay the French and Indian War debt
• To build a new home for the monarch
• To paint a new Proclamation Line through the mountains
• To buy a surplus of rice and indigo

What was the name of the group that spread word of British taxation and organized colonial protests?

• Loyalists
• Sons of Liberty
• Minutemen
• Allies

What was the result of the First Continental Congress?

• They passed the Coercive Acts
• They agreed to unify and boycott British goods
• They created a Proclamation Line
• They seized arms and ammunition

Who was one of the founding members of the Sons of Liberty?

• William Pitt
• Sam Adams
• George III
• Silver Heels

This struggle between the British and the French in the colonies of North America was part of a worldwide war known as the Seven Years' War

• French and Indian War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812
• War with Mexico

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, in order to avoid conflict with the Native Americans.

• Declaration of Independence
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Proclamation of 1763
• Intolerable Proclamation

A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Document Tax

The refusal to buy or sell certain products or services.

• petition
• boycott
• ally
• militia

Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British troops stationed in the colonies.

• Housing Administration Act
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act