The American Revolution STAAR REVIEW

In order to punish the colonists and re-establish their allegiance to the King after throwing a large shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor, Parliament enacted the -

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

In 1767, Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, imposed taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea. Many colonists protested this measure as an abuse of power. In response, the British repealed all the taxes except for the tax on -

• paints

• lead

• tea

• paper

In March of 1770, a group of redcoats were jeered and taunted by restless colonists. The redcoats retaliated by firing at the colonists, killing five. The event became known as the -

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Boston Massacre

• Declaratory Act

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

Great Britain used her colonies to make money and keep her economy healthy through a system that taxed imported items and by placing restrictions on trade. The system was called -

• mercantilism

• laissez-faire

• capitalism

• feudalism

One of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered. This act was the -

• Quartering Act

• Currency Act

• Boston Port Act

• Virginia Resolutions

British troops attempted to seize a supply of ammunition in April of 1775, but they were met with colonial militiamen who were alerted by Paul Revere. What battle occurred because of this action?

• Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Washington

• Siege of Fort Ticonderoga

Analyze the causes of the American Revolution, including the Proclamation of 1763, the Intolerable Acts, the Stamp Act, mercantilism, lack of representation in Parliament, and British economic policies following the French and Indian War.

Analyze the following statements to determine which was made by a Loyalists during the American Revolution -

• "give me liberty or give me death?"

• "We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately!"

• "Americans, as British Citizens, must pay their taxes!"

• "A government of our own is our natural right"

The tax laws imposed on the colonists by the British government were viewed as unfair and created support for declaring independence because -

• British merchants were taxed at a higher rate than colonial merchants

• Parliament passed the laws to deregulate the trade of imports

• the laws only applied to those foreign subjects of the British crown

• colonists were taxed without direct representation in Parliament

In the two years prior to the American colonists declaring their freedom, they grew increasingly resentful of Great Britain because -

• Britain's refusal to provide financial aid to the colonies

• the colonists' opposition to being taxed without representation in the British Parliament

• the limitations placed by Parliament of religious freedom in the colonies

• Britain giving support to the Native Americans fighting against the colonists

"Limits hath now been placed on our territories, and those poor unfortunate souls beyond this new pretended boundary have been ordered to return henceforth, but this measure is only an expedient to quiet the minds of the savages" - Henry Laurens letter to Patrick Henry Sept 1764.

The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the -

• Passage of the Proclamation that halted the colonists expanding into the lands acquired from the French and Indian War

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain without colonial representation following the French and Indian War

• holding of the British Parliament's response to the actions of the Sons of Liberty during the Boston Tea Party

• agreement made by the King and Parliament to place a tax on all printed material in the colonies