Road to the Revolution

The Proclamation Line of 1763 led to disagreement between the colonists and the British government because it —

• prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• offered all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to British nobles

• banned colonial trading with the American Indians

• surrendered control of the Great Lakes region to Canada

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 act prompted the Boston Tea Party?

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

In the decade following the French and Indian War, many American colonists believed that new British taxes were unfair because —

• tax rates were higher in some colonies than in others

• colonists were asked to pay higher taxes than those paid by people in England

• American colonists lacked representation in Parliament

• landowners paid higher taxes than merchants active in trade

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 was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?

• To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies

• To encourage foreign trade with the colonies

• The recover the cost of defending the colonies

• To fund the establishment of new colonies

What act taxed almost all printed materials in the colonies?

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

What event is this artwork depicting?

• French and Indian War

• American Revolutionary War

• Bloody Massacre

• Join Or Die Cartoon

How did colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre killings?

• as a call to war

• as propaganda

• as a reason to trust the British

• as a reason to tax Great Britain

What is another name for the coercive acts?

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Acts

• Committee of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty