Road to the Revolution - SS.7.C.1.3

Why did Parliament eventually repeal the Stamp Act, which taxed goods such as newspapers and playing cards?

• The colonists established a blockade against British goods

• The colonists were able to produce their own goods

• The colonists started destroying British goods

• The colonists began boycotting British goods.

What THREE reasons did the colonists have for declaring independence? Choose all that apply.

• violation of individual rights

• lack of representation in government

• conflict with Native Americans

• taxation

Following the _______, England taxed the colonies to pay its debt and limited westward expansion with the Proclamation of 1763. Both of these actions angered the colonists.

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• Civil War

As a result of conflicts with England, colonists wrote the ________, which expressed their grievances against the King of England and proclaimed that they wanted to be independent states.

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

What country imposed the Intolerable Acts on The American colonies?

• France

• Spain

• Britain

• Germany

Which act said that British soldiers could be housed in the barns, hotels, and homes of the colonists?

• Boston Port Act

• Quebec Act

• The French and Indian War

• The Quartering Act

This act required colonists to pay for an official seal whenever they bought paper products.

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

What word means: refuse to buy; stop buying; or refusing to give your business to a certain company or business. 

• boycott
• grievience
• tariff
• nullification 

Influenced independence in the colonies. Believed that government was a “social contract” and that the purpose of government was to protect individual freedom and property. 

• John Locke
• Wentworth Cheswell
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

What is the name of the act that the British passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid?

• The Quartering Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts