The Acts and the Declaration of Independence

The __________ Act required colonists to pay a tax on paint, lead, paper, and glass.

• Stamp

• Quartering

• Townshend

• Sugar

The _____________ Act levied taxes on tea. It was intended to raise revenue for the British East India Company and lower the price of tea.

• Sugar

• Townshend

• Stamp

• Tea

The _________ Act shut down Boston Harbor, forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes, and removed the governor of Massachusetts from power.

• Quartering

• Intolerable

• Tea

• Declaratory Act

The ____________ Act held that Parliament could govern the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."

• Quartering

• Declaratory

• Stamp

• Intolerable

The __________ placed taxes on sugar and molasses. It hoped to lower smuggling rates.

• Sugar

• Tea

• Townshend

• Quartering

The __________ of liberty was founded by Samuel Adams and formed in response to the Stamp Act

• Daughters

• Sons

• Sisters

• Brothers

Who uttered the phrase "Give me liberty or give me death?"

• Thomas Jefferson

• Roger Sherman

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

According to John Locke, people are entitled to natural rights such as?

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• life, liberty, and natural rights

• life, liberty, and the social contract

• life, liberty, and property

The Second Continental Congress named who as the leader of the Continental Army?

• George Wythe

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

Where did the "shot heard around the world" take place?

• Bunker Hill

• Breed's Hill

• Lexington and Concord

• Boston