Steps to the Revolutionary War

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Navigation Act

What law placed high taxes on tea, cloth, and British goods?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Navigations Acts
• Stamp Act

After the Boston Tea Party...

• England did not tax the colonists
• King George surrendered
• King George closed Boston Harbor and created the Intolerable Acts

Why did the King impose taxes on the colonist?

• to be greedy

• to payoff the debt from the French and Indian War

• to pay for new weapons

• to protest the stamp act

Who fought in the French and Indian war?

• French against the Indians

• British against the colonist

• French and Indians against the British and Colonist

• French and Indians against the Germans and Colonist

What was the name of the tax that was issued on 54 different kinds of paper?

• The Paper Act

• Tax Act

• Stamp Act

• Molasses Act

What did not happen at the Boston Massacre?

• a colonist fired back at a British soldier

• the British killed 5 colonist

• the colonist threw snowballs at the soldiers

• the colonists threw rocks at the soldiers

How did the King punish the colonist for throwing the tea into the harbor?

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

What was the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed?

• July 4, 1776
• July 2, 1776
• July 4, 1787
• July 2, 1775