Road to Revolution

The Townshend Acts were:

• British restrictions on trading

• British taxes on everyday items colonists used

• Colonists' reaction to British revenue policies

• Acts of violence initiated by Charles Townshend due to lack of colonial representation.

Which describe the life of an indentured servant in colonial times?

• viewed as someone's property for life

• spent evenings reading or entertaining guests

• legally bound to an employer for a set amount of time

Which item did the Stamp Act say that the colonists were supposed to buy a British stamp for?

• every sheet of newspaper

• every document

• every playing card

• all of the above

Which describes the major cause of the French and Indian War?

• disagreements between the French and British over land claims and the fur trade

• arguments about the rights of Indians in French North America

• arguments about the prices Indians were paid for the furs they trapped for the British

• disagreements between the French and the Indians over how to use the land and who owns the land

In which conflict were five colonists killed by British soldiers?

• Paul Revere's Ride

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

Which Boston lawyer defended the British soldiers put on trial after the Boston Massacre?

• Sam Adams

• John Hancock

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

The American colonists felt that THIS was a violation of their civil liberties because they had no representation in British Parliament

• Taxation

• Dress Code

• No Free Speech

• Laws

This Law said that English colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Great Migration

What group formed in Boston in 1765 to protest British taxes and laws? (The guys who planed the Boston Tea Party)

• Sons of Liberty

• Knights of Templar

• Freemasons

• Boys of Boston

Which Act was not imposed by the British on to the colonists?

• Stamp Act

• Social Security Act

• Sugar Act

• Quartering Act