Causes of the American Revolution

Great Britain was responsible for making the laws for the colonists, similar to our Congress. What was this group called? 

• Senate
• House of Representatives
• Congress
• Parliament

American colonists were asked to help cover the cost of the French and American War by paying

• Patriots
• snowballs
• taxes
• boycott

The tax on all items in the colonies made of paper was called the

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Act
• Boston tea Party

What is the name of the war between the Colonist and the British?

• American Revolution
• French and Indian War
• Civil War

What was the Stamp Act?

• A tax on paper goods
• a tax on imported goods
• a tax on sugar and molasses
• a tax on tea

What was the Tea Act?

• A tax on sugar and molasses
• a tax on imported goods
• a tax on paper goods
• a tax on tea

Which laws were passed by the British authorities to punish the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

What does the word boycott mean?

• collecting taxes

• refusing to buy goods

• selling goods

• smuggling

What is a tax?

• money plantation owners spent on slaves

• money that must be paid to a government

• tea that was shipped from England

• a British law that closed the port in Boston

Why did Britain establish the Tea Act?

• They gave only one company the power to sell tea to the thirteen colonies

• England wanted to start growing tea in Georgia

• The colonists wanted to sell tea to Native Americans

• The king of England did not want people in the colonies to buy or drink tea.