Events Leading to the American Revolution

Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.

• True.
• False.

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• John Hancock

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

Paul Revere’s engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British feelings among the colonists?

• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Proclamation of 1763

Goods being imported to the colonies were taxed by which act?

• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

Which of the following resulted in lower taxes on molasses?

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

This official colonial governing body called for a protest on British goods prior to the American Revolution.

• Daughters of Liberty

• First Continental Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• Second Continental Congress

Which act taxed colonists without their consent, on normal items such as licenses?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

What did the COLONISTS call the British laws that banned town meetings in New England?

• Quartering Act

• Coercive Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists carried out to protest harsh British taxes?

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Intolerable Acts

Which act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?

• Declaratory Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act