Road to Revolution Quiz

What stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaration of Independence

• Townshend Acts

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

Who was the first American to be shot and killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre?

• Crispus Attucks

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Haym Salomon

Wrote pamphlets, poems and plays as a form of protest against the British.

• Abigail Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Phillis Wheatley

• Sojourner Truth

Influenced independence in the colonies. Believed that government was a “social contract” and that the purpose of government was to protect individual freedom and property.

• John Locke

• Wentworth Cheswell

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

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