Civics: Causes of the American Revolution

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 name was given to colonists who supported the idea of independence from Great Britian?

• Patriots
• Loyalists
• Hessians
• Representatives 

What was the name given to colonists who continued to support the British government?

• Patriots
• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Green Mountain Boys

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

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

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 did the king begin to tax the colonists?

• He wanted more money to make England look better
• He needed money to pay off war debts from the French and Indian War
• He needed money to pay for Boston soldiers
• He hated the colonists' guts