Road to Revolution Quiz

After the French and Indian War, the colonies offered to pay some of Britain's war debts.

• True

• False

What group did Samuel Adams help to start in order to protest the Stamp Act?

• Sons for Independence

• Committees of Correspondence

• Citizens for Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

Patrick Henry persuaded the Virginia House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act.

• True

• False

The Townshend Acts were different from the Stamp Act because ____________.

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods made in the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods imported into the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods sent from the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods shipped to southern colonies

The ___________________________ Act was a tax on finished goods like glass,

lead, paper and tea.

This extremely popular pamphlet titled __________________________ written

by Thomas Paine pushed the colonists to declare

independence from Great Britain.

This was a tax on all paper goods: ______________________________________.

The _____________________________ Act forced the colonists to provide

housing for British soldiers.

The _____________________________________ was a gathering of delegates

who got together in Philadelphia to decide what to do about the British.

American colonists were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains by the _________________.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act