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Why were the American Colonist taxed after the French and Indian War?

• Britain was in debt and needed money
• That was the agreement with the Native Americans
• They made too much money
• Townshend Acts

What was this poster's meaning?

• The Colonies needed to be united
• Serpents can grow back together
• Colonies need to be independent
• Ben Franklin didn't know why he made this

Which was the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

• Intolerable Acts
• Sugar Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Stamp Acts

Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation line of 1763
• Proclamation boundary
• Manifest Destiny
• Borderlands

A secret organization made up of merchants and journalists formed to protest unfair taxes was called the ____________. 

• Minutemen
• Loyalists
• Patriots
• Sons of Liberty 

In 1774 delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met to discuss the problems the colonies were having with England. This was called ____________. 

• Boston Tea Party
• First Continental Congress
• Parliament
• None of the answers 

Who wrote "Common Sense" that challenged the colonists to fight for independence? 

• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Paine 
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson 

Who wrote "Common Sense" that challenged the colonists to fight for independence? 

• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Paine 
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson 

The Boston Tea Party was when colonists:

• had a nice lunch and drank tea
• dressed like Indians and threw tea in the harbor
• gave tea to their friends
• stopped drinking tea

What did the Continental Congress decide to do with British trade? 

• Buy British goods
• Raise tariffs
• Destroy all British goods
• Boycott all British goods