Causes of American Revolution

Who Organized the Boston tea Party?

• Colonists
• Sons of liberty
• The British
• King Charles III

What was it called when the colonists were forced to house British soldiers?

• Babysitting
• Quartering
• Hospitality
• Kidnapping

Which significant outcome of the French and Indian War eventually led to the American Revolution?

• Britain placed its colonies under strict control and began taxing them to help pay for the war.
• Britain expected colonists to fight the war at their own expense and offered no reimbursement.
• The loss of colonial territory to the French made colonists lose faith in the British government.
• Britain did not offer aid to colonists during the war but still declared sovereignty over them.

Unalienable Rights are natural human rights, what are they according to the Declaration of Independence?

• peace, land and bread
• liberty, equality, and fraternity
• justice, tranquility and common defense
• life, liberty and pursuit of happiness

This is the theory that the colonies exist for the economic benefit for the mother country.

• Stamp Act
• Mercantilism
• Free Enterprise
• Intolerable Acts

Why did the King of Britain start taxing the colonists?

• he was bored
• he needed money after spending it on the French and Indian War
• he needed more money to support the colonists
• he needed more money for his family

What was one cause of the American Revolution? 

• The writings of prominent Loyalists 
• The Olive Branch Petition 
• Dispute over the Ohio River Valley 
• No taxation without representation

What law made it illegal for the colonists to live west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Proclamation of 1963
• Proclamation of 1973
• Proclamation of 1763
• Proclamation of 1873

The Sons of Liberty dressed as _______ when they raided the ship during the Boston Tea Party.

• circus clowns
• grizzly bears
• Red Coats
• Mohawk Indians

Lexington and Concord were the first battles in what war?

• Mexican War

• Seven Year's War

• American Revolution

• Civil War