Road to Revolution Quiz #1

Many colonists were against the Stamp Act because it was an example of taxation without _______________.

• representation
• boycott
• Committees of Correspondence
• blockade

American colonists were asked to pay for the cost of the French and Indian War by paying extra ___________.

• quarter
• repealed
• Stamp Act
• taxes

The colonists formed the _________ to keep colonists informed about the protests.

• Loyalists
• Sons of Liberty
• Committees of Correspondence
• Stamp Act

Which act placed a tax on almost all printed/paper materials?

• Sugar Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

Which act placed a tax on lead, glass, paint, and tea that lead to the Boston Massacre?

• Sugar Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

Which act stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonies?

• Sugar Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

Which act gave the British East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying the taxes colonial tea merchants had to pay

• Sugar Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

Which act taxed sugar and molasses?

• Sugar Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to what?

• a peace treaty between the British and the Colonists

• the Tea Act, which granted a monopoly to the East India Trading Company

• the increase in baked goods by citizens of Boston

• the Boston Massacre, which killed 5 colonists

Which series of Acts punished the town of Boston for the Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act