Social Studies Weekly #19: Causes of the Revolution

Check all of the ideas about which Samuel Adams spoke.

• no taxation without representation

• boycott English goods

• beginning a Committee of Correspondence

• going back to England

Check all of the ways the Boston Tea Party lead toward the revolution.

• people were happy to drink tea

• sent a message to the king

• made the king angry and he made more rules

• colonists stopped drinking tea

• colonists decided to organize themselves and worked together

What happened as a result of the engravings Paul Revere made and published of the Boston Massacre?

• people were excited

• caused strong anti-British feelings

• people wanted to go back to England

• the Sons of Liberty were formed and the colonists started planning to get back at England

• many colonists made plans to get back at England

The Tea Act of 1773 stated that the colonists could only buy tea from ___________.

• the French

• Colonists

• the British East India Company

• smugglers

In ________, King Geroge sent a proclamation stating that the colonists would have to house British soldiers in what's known as The Quartering Act.

• 1767

• 1773

• 1765

• 1763

What did "no taxation without representation" mean for the colonists?

• they did not want to pay taxes AT ALL!

• colonists wanted to be included in the meetings where taxes were decided

• they did not want to pay taxes because they wanted make the King poor

• they wanted the Loyalists to leave America and only keep the Patriots

The French and Indian War was fought between _______

• the French and the American Indians

• the French and the British

• the British and the American Indians against the French

• the French and the American Indians against the British

The Stamp Act stated that the colonists had to _____________

• pay tax on products derived from sugar

• pay taxes on printed products like newspapers and letters

• only buy tea from the East India Company

• be in their homes before dark

After the Boston Massacre in 1770, Paul Revere made an engraving of the scene that many believe was use for:

• art

• propaganda

• entertainment

Colonists who were loyal to the British King were known as

• patriots

• loyalists