Conflict in the Colonies

What role did Mercy Otis-Warren play leading up to the American Revolution?

• Baked for soldiers
• Wrote plays making fun of Loyalists
• Helped the Sons of Liberty during the Boston Tea Party
• Represented the British soldiers accused of murder.

Which concern of the colonists led to the American Revolution?

• opposition to British tax policies
• Desire for greater religious freedom
• Fear of attacks by American Indians
• Increasing immigration from countries other than Britain

Colonists protested the Stamp Act because they believed in what phrase?

• Live free or die
• All men are created equal
• Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• No taxation with representation

Sons of Liberty were a group of American colonists who worked to repeal the Stamp Act by doing what?

• Taking military action against the British
• Forming alliances with the enemies of Britain
• Meeting with Parliament in England 
• Publicly protesting and organizing boycotts

In response to the Tea Act, the colonists threw tea from the British ships into the Boston Harbor.  This event is known as:

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Riots
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Market

Why could the colonists not move West of the Appalachian mountains after the French and Indian war?

• To avoid conflicts with the French 
• To avoid conflicts with the British
• To avoid conflicts with the Natives
• To avoid conflicts with the British

His engraving of the Boston Massacre is a great example of propaganda.

• Samuel Adams
• Paul Revere
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

What does "No Taxation without Representation" mean?

• that colonists could not tax the British because Parliament was in England
• that Britain should not be able to tax the colonists since the colonists did not have a voice in British Parliament
• that coloists needed to receive a bill before they would pay their taxes

What was the main reason Britain began taxing the colonists?

• to pay for the debt from the French and Indian War
• to build new roads through the Ohio River Valley
• to support the development of new towns in Vermont

What acts by King George and Parliament were passed to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts