American Revolution Part 1

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

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

This law stated that the colonists must pay a tax for all paper goods- angered colonists because of taxation without representation 

• Stamp Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• French and Indian War

Colonists threw tea in the Boston Harbor 

• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Tea Party
• Stamp Act

Sons of Liberty were a group of American colonists who worked to repeal the Stamp Act by doing what?

• Taking military action against the British
• Forming alliances with the enemies of Britain
• Meeting with Parliament in England 
• Publicly protesting and organizing boycotts

Who was the King of Britain at the time of the Revolutionary War?

• King George III
• King George I
• King Henry IV
• King Henry VIII

The French and Indian War happened AFTER the Stamp Act.

• True
• False

The French and Indian War cost King George and Great Britain a lot of money. To help pay for the war, the British colonies were ordered to 

• give up their food
• work for free
• become a part of the Army
• pay taxes without representation

A snowball fight between the colonists and soldiers in Boston that ended in 5 colonists being killed was called

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Party
• Boston Parliament

A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act was called

• Congress
• Sons of Liberty
• Parliament
• Loyalists

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