Revolutionary War quiz

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

The American colonists felt that the English government made them...

• work too hard
• follow unfair laws
• buy too much teach
• buy too many clothes

What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Navigation Act

What law made it very expensive for colonists to import molasses?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

What law placed high taxes on tea, cloth, and British goods?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Navigations Acts
• Stamp Act

How would you describe the winter at Valle Forge?

• Cold and challenging
• Hot and tropical
• Great food

A group of colonists dressed as Indians and dumped British tea into the ocean. The became known as the Boston Tea party.

• True
• False

What was the Boston Tea Party?

• People from Boston had a set time every day to drink tea.

• The Sons of Liberty dressed up like Native Americans and threw tea into the Boston harbor to protest the British Tea Act.

• American colonists didn't like the tea England was sending them so they dumped it all into the Boston Harbor.

Thomas Jefferson wrote an important document in which he listed all of the reasons why the colonies should be free and independent from British rule. This important document was called:

• the First Continental Congress

• the Constitution

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Second Continental Congress

The Stamp act, which was passed in 1765, stated that colonists had to place stamps on what kind of items?

• guns, ammunition, and weapons that were exported to European countries

• cartons of tea and sugar that were imported from Great Britain

• packages that were being mailed to European countries

• written documents (such as contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards)