The Road to the Revolution

What event put Britain in debt, so they decided to tax the colonies to pay off this debt?

• French & Indian War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812
• French Revolution 

What word means: refuse to buy; stop buying; or refusing to give your business to a certain company or business. 

• boycott
• grievience
• tariff
• nullification 

What act prompted the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act
• Quartering Act
• Tea Act
• Sugar Act

What law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act 

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

What was the first cause of the American Revolution?

• French and Indian War
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Slavery

The Stamp Act was a tax on _________.

• All paper goods

• Finished goods

• tobacco and sugar

• lead, glass and paint

What is the name of the act that the British passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid?

• The Quartering Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts

What act led to colonists boycotting British goods?

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Act

The French and Indian War was a turning point in the relationship between American colonists and the British government because the war -

• increased French influence in North America

• ended Native American Indian attacks west of the Appalachian Mountains

• resulted in British debt and attempts to tax colonists

• created an alliance with Canada against the British