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

What law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp 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

The French and Indian War was a turning point in the relationship between American colonists and the British government because the war -

• increased French influence in North America

• ended Native American Indian attacks west of the Appalachian Mountains

• resulted in British debt and attempts to tax colonists

• created an alliance with Canada against the British

Many colonists became angry because they did not have any representatives in the British government. What did the colonists call this unfair action?

• the Proclamation of 1763

• metaphor

• Stamp Act 

• taxation without representation 

Which person would have been most likely to refer to the events of March 5, 1770, as the Boston Massacre?

• a British Soldier 

• King George III of England 

• a colonist from Boston 

• a visitor from another country 

Why did Britain create the Proclamation of 1763?

• to protect American settlers from attack by Native Americans 

• to punish the colonists for not helping during the French and Indian War 

• to make money for the French and Indian War debts 

• to reward Native Americans after the French and Indian war