Causes of the Revolution Review

Which group from Boston organized boycotts to protest the economic policies of the British?

• Sons of Liberty

• The Redcoats

• Parliament

• Sons of Anarchy

Why did Parliament pass acts like the Stamp Act?

• To make the colonists angry

• To help pay for the cost of defending the colonies

• To help pay for the cost of attacking the colonies

• To help pay for the colonists who damaged the shipment of tea.

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

• The King proclaimed a holiday in all the land

• The King proclaimed the colonists would have to pay taxes to help pay off the debt from the French and Indian War

• The King proclaimed that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• The King proclaimed that England would no longer be Catholic.

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger the colonists?

• It didn't

• They did not want to have to pay taxes

• They didn't want the French to invade their land.

• They wanted to settle wherever they wanted to.

Why would a colonist not like the Mercantilist system?

• It meant they could only trade with the mother country.

• It meant they had to participate in the slave trade.

• It meant the King could tell the colonists to do whatever he wanted them to.

• It meant they had to share the profits of their business equally among all colonists.

Why did colonists object to paying taxes such as the Stamp Act?

• They hated to pay taxes to a King who lived across the ocean.

• They believed their civil liberties were violated because the taxes were created in Parliament where they did not have a representative.

• They wanted to settle in the region west of the Appalachian Mountains regardless of what the King said.

• The were poor and did not have enough money to pay the tax.

What event occurred as a result of the protest known as the "Boston Tea Party"?

• Britain gave into colonial demands for representation

• Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the colonies

• Britain abandoned the colonies

• Britain passed the Stamp Act