Causes of the American Revolution

The Stamp Act was imposed on paper goods such as newspapers and playing cards.

• True

• False

• Maybe

What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

• Navigation Acts

• Quartering Act

Why was Great Britain taxing the colonies?

• To help open jobs

• To help pay their war debt

• To punish the colonists

• To help with trading

What was stated in the Proclamation of 1763?

• Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains in the Ohio River Valley.

• The Proclamation proclaimed independence for the American colonists.

• Colonists were encouraged to begin settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Who was the British monarch during the American Revolution?

• King Arthur

• King George III

• Queen Elizabeth II

• KIng Charles II

What was a common motto used by colonists in protest to British policies?

• "Give me liberty or give me death"

• "No Stamp Act, No Sugar Act"

• "No taxation without representation"

• "No representation without taxation"

What action did King George take after the French and Indian War that colonists felt unfairly restricted their ability to move west?

• Dumped the colonists' tea into the harbor

• Passed the Stamp Act

• Declared the Proclamation of 1763

• Gave the colonies back to the French

How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?

• by representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies

• by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent

• by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes.

• by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament

The cartoon printed in 1760 was most likely a protest against

• pirates

• British taxes

• food safety

• cruelty of British soldiers

Why did American colonists resent British taxes?

• American colonists were unhappy that the high taxes were keeping the nobility in luxury.

• Americans did not elect representatives to Parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.

• Unlike American colonists, people who lived in Great Britain did not have to pay any duties.

• Great Britain did not offer the American colonists any protection from the French and the Indians.