Road to the Revolution

British taxes on the American colonists, such as the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act, were passed with what purpose?

• To hurt the American colonies economically

• To help repay the British debts from the French and Indian War

• To fund infrastructure improvements in the American colonies

• To raise money to fight against the American Revolution

Why were the American colonists so upset about the practice of “taxation without representation?”

• The colonists were British subjects but did not have any say in the British government that was taxing them

• The colonists were angered because Britain was not using its tax revenue to benefit all of the colonies equally

• The colonists wanted the right to tax Britain

• All of the above

Which of the following incidents ended with the death of five colonists and the wounding of six others, while also inflaming tensions between British military forces and American colonists?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The boycott on British tea

• The Stamp Act protests

Which of the following was the British government's response to the Boston Tea Party?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

To refuse to buy products, goods or use the services of a merchant or country.

• Smuggle

• Mercantilism

• Picket

• Boycott

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

• Force colonists to buy tea from the British East India Co.

• Prevent the colonist of settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Allow for British taxation without representation

• Prevent colonists from peacefully gathering in Boston

Someone who supported the British government in the 1770s was called a:

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Neutralist

• None of the above

Someone who opposed the British government in the 1770s was called a:

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Neutralist

• None of the above

Someone who did not necessarily support or oppose the British government in the 1770s was called a:

• Loyalist

• Patriot

• Neutralist

• None of the above

Match the event with its description: BOSTON MASSACRE

• War between French and British in the colonies from 1754-1763

• Incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed 5 colonists

• Religious movement in the colonies in the 1700s

• Intellectual movement in the colonies in the 1700s