Test on the Road to Revolution 1764-1775

Why did Parliament raise taxes on the colonies?

• To pay for the King's new palace

• They needed money for the Revolutionary War.

• They needed money to pay the debt from the French & Indian War.

• They needed money to pay for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party.

The Sugar Act was a tax on sugar and _______

• molasses

• tea

• clothes

What was the result of the Stamp Act?

• The Boston Tea Party
• The colonists traveled to Parliament to discuss the act.
• The colonists protested it so much that the king repealed it.
• Paul Revere made his midnight ride.

The Stamp Act taxed all ________ goods.

• paper

• plastic

• pollution

Colonist were especially upset with the British government because it did not allow...

• colonial business to support royal taxes

• colonists to have representation in Parliament

• powers of colonial legislatures to increase

• laws passed by Parliament to govern the colonies

What is a refusal to buy goods called?

• congress
• repeal
• boycott
• bankrupt

What famous phrase did the colonists use to voice their displeasure with Parliament?

• Power to the People

• No Taxation without Representation

• Free the people

• You Only Live Once

Who is known as a founder of the Sons of Liberty? 

• Thomas Jefferson
• Samuel Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

A secret society that opposed British tax policies.

• House of Burgesses

• Sons of Liberty

• Colonial assemblies

• Parliament

Act passed by Parliament in 1767 to place taxes on products imported to the colonies

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act