American Revolution

This was a tax on all printed materials in the 13 Colonies.

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Tea Act
• Townshend Act

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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

This event broke tensions between the colonist and the British troops where shots were fired after the colonists were harassing a British tax collector.

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Bloody Valentine

How did the colonist protest against the tea tax?

• Dressed up like Native Americans
• Boston Massacre
• Dumped tea into Boston harbor
• Didn't pay the tax on the East India Tea

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Which was the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

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

Early revolutionary battle where 1,000 British troops died and realized the American Colonists were tougher than they though.

• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Saratoga
• Battle of Yorktown

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

• Patriot
• Loyalist
• Yes man
• Neutral

Who was the first choice to command the Continental Army?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Paine
• George Washington

This type of colonist was ready for rebellion and the fight for independence.

• Loyalist
• Patriot
• Neutral
• British 

Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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