Causes of the American Revolution Quiz

The Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. This act of protest is known as 

• the Boston Tea Party
• the Stamp Act
• Committees of Correspondence
• Boston Massacre

American colonists were asked to help cover the cost of the French and American War by paying

• Patriots
• snowballs
• taxes
• boycott

The tax on all items in the colonies made of paper was called the

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Act
• Boston tea Party

What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?

• To allow colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
• To punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party
• To punish the Georgia colony for the Sugar Act
• To prevent the smuggling of molasses 

Why did Parliament choose to raise taxes on the American colonies beginning in 1763?

• To help pay the French and Indian War debt
• To build a new home for the monarch
• To paint a new Proclamation Line through the mountains
• To buy a surplus of rice and indigo

The refusal to buy or sell certain products or services.

• petition
• boycott
• ally
• militia

Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British troops stationed in the colonies.

• Housing Administration Act
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act

Crispus Attucks became the first casualty at the hands of a British soldier at which event?

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Battle of Lexington
• Battle of Bunker Hill

Which battles initiated the American Revolution?

• Saratoga and Yorktown
• Lexington and Concord
• Yorktown and Valley Forge
• Valley Forge and Saratoga

The Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. This act of protest is known as 

• the Boston Tea Party
• the Stamp Act
• Committees of Correspondence
• Boston Massacre