Events Leading to the Revolutionary War- Review

A tax placed on printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents was called the _____________________.

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Paper Act

The colonists did not want to be taxed by Parliament because they were ______________.

• self-governing

• tariffs

• boycotting

Colonists refused to buy British goods because they did not approve of the taxes. Refusing to buy something is called a ____________.

Group of answer choices

• tariff

• stampede

• boycott

When the colonists were protesting the Stamp Act, they cried "No ____________ without representation!"

• boycotts

• taxation

• explanation

The group of men who formed to protest British taxes were called the _____________________.

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Freedom

The ________________ were created to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

• Stamp Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

The Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act. This event was called the ______________.

• Boston Indian Raid

• Boston Red Sox

• Boston Tea Party

The _____________________ was the first event that led to the Revolutionary War because Britain wanted to tax the colonists to help with their debt from that war.

• French and Indian War

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

The Tea Act gave the British East India Company exclusive rights, or a _________________, to sell tea in the colonies.

• scrabble

• monopoly

• checkers

The Quartering Act was passed under the Intolerable Acts. It allowed _______________________ to be quartered (or housed) in colonial buildings and homes.

• French troops

• Sons of Liberty

• British troops