History Kids: Causes of the Revolutionary War

A system of government in which everyone can be heard is called __________________________.

• a dictatorship

• communism

• a democracy

• unconstitutional

The _____________and Indian War was a war between two groups that wanted to control the area called the Ohio River Valley.

• Swedish

• French

• British

• American

After the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the French and Indian War, ____________ was left with a large national debt, and the king wanted America to help pay for the expensive war effort.

• France

• Ohio

• Florida

• Britain

To help raise money after the French and Indian War, the British Parliament considered a bill called ________________.

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The War Act

• The Stamp Tax

The Stamp Act put a tax on

• newspapers

• legal documents

• licenses

• all of these

Upset about not having a "voice" in Parliament, the phrase "No __________ without ____________" became the cry of the colonists.

• taxation, receipts

• stamps, representation

• representation, colonists

• taxation, representation

Which is the correct order of the following acts:

• Townshend Act, Stamp Act, Tea Act

• Tea Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act

• Stamp Act, Tea Act, Townshend Act

• Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Tea Act

Who boarded the tea ships and tossed 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor?

• The Sons of Liberty

• Mohawk Indians

• British soldiers

• angry colonists

The Intolerable Acts included the following laws (check all that apply.)

• Closing the port of Boston until all damage from the Tea Party was cleaned up

• limited town meetings

• British officials charged with crimes were allowed to transfer to British courts

• Americans were required to provide food and housing to British soldiers

12 of the 13 Colonies sent representatives to a meeting to discuss a unified resistance to the King. This meeting was called_____________________.

• The First Continental Colony

• The First Continental Congress

• The Coercive Acts

• The Colonial Resistance