The Road to the Revolution

The Proclamation Line of 1763 led to disagreement between the colonists and the British government because it —

• prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

• offered all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to British nobles

• banned colonial trading with the American Indians

• surrendered control of the Great Lakes region to Canada

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

• boycott
• grievience
• tariff
• nullification 

What act prompted the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act
• Quartering Act
• Tea Act
• Sugar Act

What law required the colonists to house and feed British troops in the American colonies?

• Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Tea Act
• Stamp Act 

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

Which individual is characterized below?

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

What was the name of Britain's law-making assembly?

• Parliament

• Congress

• House of Representatives

• First Continental Congress

What was the purpose for establishing the Committees of Correspondence?

• To maintain communication with one another

• To start a war

• To communicate with King George III

• To invent the telephone

Where was the Continental Congress held?

• Philadelphia 
• Jamestown
• New York City
• Boston

Many colonists became angry because they did not have any representatives in the British government. What did the colonists call this unfair action?

• the Proclamation of 1763
• metaphor
• Stamp Act 
• taxation without representation