Road to the American Revolution

First shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired here.

• Bunker Hill

• Boston Harbor

• Lexington and Concord

• Albany

British tax on requiring a seal be placed on all colonial paper items.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Declaratory Act

• Coercive Act

Form of protest where people stop buying products to show their resentment.

• Smuggling

• Espionage

• Tar and feathering

• Boycott

Primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• John Hancock

God-given rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

• Undeniable Rights

• Unbelievable Rights

• Unpopular Rights

• Unalienable Rights

To prove his accusations against King George III, Thomas Jefferson included 27 ? in the Declaration of Independence.

• grievances

• observations

• beliefs

• opinions

Which of the following stated the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• The Treaty of Paris 1763

• The Navigation Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Declaratory Act

What was the popular slogan used by the colonies in protest of the British taxes?

• "Give me liberty, or give me death"

• "Join or Die"

• "No Taxation without Representation"

• "My Rights, My Freedom, My Liberty"

Which of the following punished Massachusetts for its continued defiance?

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Coercive / Intolerable Acts

Thomas Paine's popular pamphlet that encouraged the support for independence

• The Rights of Man

• Common Sense

• The Federalist Papers

• The Enlightenment