American Revolution 2020jg

It is 1763 and Great Britain has developed a huge debt from fighting the ___.

• Continental Congress

• Revolutionary War

• Boston Tea Party

• French and Indian War

• none of these

Many colonists were upset by the taxes King George III immediately placed on goods, and as a result many decided to ___ in attempt to AVOID paying the taxes?

• dump the tea in the harbor

• smuggle goods

• sink the British ships

• take the King to court

One part of the ___ Act actually lowered the tax on goods while another part gave officers the authority to seize goods from smugglers without going to court [writs of assistance].

• Declaratory

• Stamp

• Sugar

• Townshend

___ was from Boston and started the Sons of Liberty. Which actively protested the Stamp Act and burned effigies in the streets to alarm tax collectors.

• Samuel Adams

• Captain John Parker

• General Thomas Gage

• Patrick Henry

• none of theses

Which option below is an effect [result] of the Townshend Acts?

• The colonists were not permitted to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• The colonist were allowed to move into the Ohio River Valley.

• Soldiers were given writs of assistance to use as search warrants.

• Women made their own tea and clothing.

True or False: The colonial boycotts following the Boston Massacre resulted in Parliament repealing almost all the Townshend Acts taxes.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament successfully ISOLATED Boston from the rest of the colonies by issuing a Coercive Act which closed the harbor.

• TRUE

• FALSE

___ was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and wanted the colonies to unite in firm resistance to Britain and said,"I am not a Virginian, but an American."

• Samuel Adams

• Captain John Parker

• General Thomas Gage

• Patrick Henry

____ was held in September of 1774 in Philadelphia and had 55 delegates which voted to repeal 13 acts of Parliament.

• Patriot Congress

• Continental Burgesses

• Continental Congress

• Suffolk Resolves

The colonists prepared for battle after the passing of the Suffolk Resolves, and the name they gave to some of the militias was ___ because they were ready for combat immediately.

• loyalists

• minutemen

• patriots

• Continental Congress