Causes of the American Revolution

Why did Parliament pass the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries

• To encourage foreign trade

• To recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To pay for the establishment of new colonies

How did mercantilism create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the colonies

• By requiring colonists to join the military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

Before the Revolution, the British felt it was fair to tax the colonists to help pay the expenses they had run up fighting which of the following?

• Spanish Armada

• Indian attacks in the South

• French and Indian War

• Loyalists

What was the immediate effect when Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765?

• Colonists sought military support from France

• Colonists organized boycotts of British goods

• Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

• Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

How did the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Quartering Act contribute to the start of the Revolutionary War?

• By restricting colonial trade with American Indians

• By imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• By angering colonists who believed their civil liberties had been violated

• By punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they ---

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

• did not want to share control of the fur trade with France

• resented the limits it imposed on westward exapnsion

• wanted to be able to able to trade freely with foreign nations

What was the main purpose of boycotts in colonial America?

• to protest taxation without representation

• to disrupt trade with foreign nations

• to prove the effectiveness of home rule

• to decrease the power of English merchants

How did mercantilism contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolution?

• American colonial leadership did not have representation in Parliament

• American businesses were frustrated with government trade restrictions

• Immigrants to the colonies were angered over significant restrictions to travel

• Indian tribes thought the British government was more trustworthy

Which of the following led colonists to claim that taxes were imposed without their consent?

• Passage of the Stamp Act

• Creation of the Intolerable Acts

• Administration of the Quebec Act

• Enforcement of the Quartering Act

Which of the following were primary reasons for the American Revolution?

• Quartering of soldiers and British restrictions on travel

• Aggressive British soldiers

• Oppressive British policies and the American desire for self-rule

• the constant military conflict with the French