Events Leading to the American Revolution

Why did King George III begin taxing the colonists?

• He didn't like them
• He was selfish
• England needed money to pay debts from the French and Indian War
• The colonists had extra money

What is the group called who makes the English laws?

• President
• Parliment
• People's Republic
• Congress

This Act made colonists buy stamps to place on all their printed documents. 

• Tea Act
• Quartering Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act

What was the city causing the most trouble for King George III?

• Atlanta
• Boston
• New York City
• Savannah

What does "boycott" mean?

• to refuse to buy goods or services from someone
• to pay taxes
• to sell things to other coutries
• to feel everything is good

The main problem the colonists had with the taxes was __________.

• They didn't have a say in making the tax laws
• they just didn't want to pay taxes
• they didn't have any money
• they didn't mind paying taxes

What did the sons of Liberty do to protest the tax on their favorite drink?

• nothing
• they boarded ships and threw the tea into the water
• they paid the tax
• they wrote a newspaper article about the unfair tax

The Stamp Act required that government stamps be placed on legal documents and other paper goods. In response, merchants organized what type of protest?

• Sit ins
• Silent protest
• Riots
• Boycotts

The Quartering Act called for _____ to be housed in colonists' homes to save money for Parliament.

• Soldiers
• Weapons
• Protesters
• Officials

Colonists refused to buy British tea because

• England's Parliament was taxing them without representation
• they did not like the taste of British tea
• they did not agree with paying taxes at all