American Revolution

__________ supported the idea on taxing the colonists.

• Paul Revere

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• King George III

Britains Law-making Assembly

• Parliament

• Stamp Act

• No taxation without representation

• Repeal

Parliament passed a law on the ______ in 1765 which placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies such as legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.

• Sons of Liberty

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townsend Acts

What does it mean to repeal something?

• Tolerate

• Support

• Cancel

• Approve

A group of leaders organized by Samuel Adams that led protests against the new tax.

• Crispus Attucks

• John Adams

• Sons of Liberty

• Colonists

Parliament passed the Townshend Acts that placed a tariff on...

• imported goods, paper, wool, tea

• Rice and indigo

• Tobacco

• Newspapers

Mercy Otis Warren urged a boycott against British goods. What was she a member of?

• Tax collectors

• Daughters of Liberty

• Members of parliament

• Sons of liberty

On the night of March 5, 1770 angry colonists surrounded British soldiers, soldiers panicked, and they fired into the crowd killing five people. What was this event called?

• Boston Massacre

• Civil War

• French and Indian War

• Revolution

A victim of the Boston Massacre that was born into slavery and escaped to work as a sailor. He led a group of sailors to protest at the Boston Massacre.

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Crispus Attucks

• John Adams

Why was The Committees of Correspondence formed?

• To encourage boycotting

• To start war

• To cause a rebellion

• To improve communication throughout the colonies and to help them work together.