Road to Independence

This act put a tax on paper goods, such as newspapers, wills, and playing cards.

• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Intolerable Acts
• boycott

The Intolerable Acts closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists payed for all the tea. The British originally named them the

• Tea Act
• Coercive Acts
• Stamp Act
• boycott

This act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea to the colonies. It made the taxed tea cheaper than the smuggled tea.

• Stamp Act
• Boycott
• Intolerable Acts
• Tea Act

When people protest by refusing to buy a certain product, that is called a ....

• boycott
• rebellion
• Colonist
• tax

What law made it illegal for the colonists to live west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Proclamation of 1963
• Proclamation of 1973
• Proclamation of 1763
• Proclamation of 1873

England forced the colonies to pay taxes in order to pay off the debt from which war?

• French and Indian War
• Revolutionary War
• Civil War
• World War I

What slogan did colonists use to protest the fact they were being taxed without any say in Parliament?

• Taxation without representation
• No taxation without representation
• No taxation with representation
• Taxation with representation

What was the event called where 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers in Boston?

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Battle of Boston

Which event listed, happened first?

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

What was the name of Britain's law-making assembly (similar to our Congress)?

• congress
• meeting house
• Parliament
• House of Burgesses