Revolutions Review

Which statement is TRUE about the Declaration of Independence?

• It outlawed slavery.
• It created taxes for the colonists. 
• It listed all the reasons the colonies should be free from England.
• It made George Washington the first president.

Which law passed by the King closed the Boston harbor?

• Tea Act
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Intolerable Acts

To refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of terms.

• Propaganda

• Repeal

• Boycott

• Rebellion

American colonists who favored American independence.

• Loyalists

• Patriots

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed war for Independence.

• Minutemen

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Tories

Which British Act required all printed materials to have a stamp that meant you paid a tax on them?

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Coercive Act

• Stamp Act

Which act lowered the tax on molasses, hoping the colonists would pay the tax rather than smuggling in goods?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Quartering Act

Colonists were dissatisfied with Great Britain because

• of the ecomomic policies imposed on the colonies following the French & Indian War. 
• of Ben Franklin's Join or Die cartoon.
• of the interference in the slave trade.
• of consequences of the Great Awakening. 

The Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Quartering Act led to the start of the Revolutionary War because colonists...

• restricted trade with the Native Americans.

• believed their rights were being violated.

• disliked King George's wig.

Who controlled all the land WEST of the Appalachian Mountains BEFORE this war?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Netherlands