5th Grade Social Studies

The Sons of Liberty were far more radical than the Stamp Act Congress. In this context, what does "radical" mean?

• Popular

• Secretive

• Extreme

• Subdued

How could the British government have prevented the American Revolution?

• By forcing King George III to give up the throne

• By allowing colonists to elect representatives to Parliament

• By overruling the decisions of the colonial legislatures

• By increasing taxes on the colonists

If you were a colonist, why would you have been upset about the Quartering Act?

• It would've forced you to pay taxes on tea, paper, and other British goods

• It would've made all of your Colonial money worthless

• It would've prevented you from being represented in Parliament

• It might have forced you to let British soldiers live in your house

How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party?

• They pulled all British troops out of Massachusetts

• They passed the Townshend Acts

• They blockaded Boston Harbor

• They invaded the United States

What does it mean to "repeal" a law?

• To protest it

• To overturn it

• To refuse to obey it

• To obey it grudgingly

If you were boycotting British tea, what would you be doing?

• Tarring and feathering British tea merchants

• Dumping British tea into Boston Harbor

• Refusing to buy British tea

• Paying high prices for British tea

How did Ben Franklin help the American war effort?

• By writing the Declaration of Independence

• By serving as President of the Continental Congress

• By serving as a general in the Continental Army

• By convincing the French government to aid the colonists

What is a loyalist?

• A person who was a slave

• A person selling clothes

• A colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause

• A colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the Amerian cause

What is a partiot in the American Revolution?

• A colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule.

• Rob Gronkowski

• A colonists who supported British rule.

• A person who didn't care if British ruled or not.

What was a leading cuase in the American Revolution?

• taxes

• food

• land

• slavery