Road to Revolution 3

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 

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

• Americans had no representation in England

• landowners paid higher taxes than merchants active in trade

Which side believed that the colonies should be free from England?

• Loyalists
• Patriots

Which side decided to stay loyal to the King of England?

• Loyalists
• Patriots

Name 3 items that King George III placed taxes on...

• Tea

• Sugar

• All paper products

• All of the Above

Groups of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight in a minute’s notice.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

• Minutemen

A main reason for the revolutionary war starting was?

• Colonists felt they were losing freedoms

• France had invaded the colonies

• Great Britain had a large army that needed practice fighting

• All of the above

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“

Hundreds of people died in the Boston Massacre.

• True
• False

The Boston Tea Party was when colonists:

• had a nice lunch and drank tea
• dressed like Indians and threw tea in the harbor
• gave tea to their friends
• stopped drinking tea