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 (a)   Act was a tax on finished goods like glass,

lead, paper and tea.

This extremely popular pamphlet titled (a)   written

by Thomas Paine pushed the colonists to declare

independence from Great Britain.

This was a tax on all paper goods: (a)   .

The (a)   Act forced the colonists to provide

housing for British soldiers.

The (a)   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