AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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

• Give me liberty or give me death
• All men are created equal
• Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• No taxation with representation

The _______________ acts were taxes on imported goods, such as glass, lead, paint, and tea.

• Townshend 
• Intolerable
• Coercive
• Tea

This is an organized effort to refuse to buy certain products or services from a certain source.

• blockade
• boycott
• colony
• blockade

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

What did the Intolerable Acts do?

• Created a monopoly on tea trade
• Closed Boston's port and took away their ability to self govern
• Taxed all paper goods
• Was a meeting where colonists planned to rebel

The _______________ were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

• Navigation Acts
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Acts
• Final Acts

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

This act required colonists to house people in their homes

• Stamp Act
• Intolerable Act
• Declaratory Act
• Quartering Act

What was the most important cause of the French and Indian War?

• Empire building by the French
• Native Americans preferred trading with the English
• English population in the colonies was growing.
• Conflict over settlement in the Ohio River Valley.

Colonial protests and boycotts against the Stamp Act eventually led to

• the Boston Massacre.
• the first shots of the war in Massachusetts
• the Boston Tea Party.
• Great Britain's government decision to repeal(get rid of) the Stamp Act.