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.

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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

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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