Growing Tensions Quiz Review

unpaid bills are called...

• debts

• petitions

• protests

• taxes

What is a protest?

• A way to show you dislike something

• a game colonists would play

• a tax the British enforced on the colonists

• blocking a harbor with warships

What is "Taxation without Representation"?

• being taxed by parliament when they had no representatives in parliament

• being taxed by colonial representatives

• having to pay for the tea that was destroyed in Boston Harbor

• Choosing not to buy British Goods to take a stand against them

What is true about the French and Indian War?

• Britain and the Colonists won

• Britain gained a lot of new territory

• Britain ended up with a lot of debt

• All of these are true

What was a reason that Britain created the Proclamation of 1763?

• To punish the Colonists

• To stop the Native Americans and Colonists from fighting

• To make money to pay off their debt

• To give Native Americans a reward

Which act required the Colonists to provide British soldiers with food, supplies, transportation, and housing for free?

• The Stamp Act

• The Penny Act

• The Quartering Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

How did the colonists respond to the Stamp Act?

• They agreed to pay happily :)

• They protested it until it was repealed

• They didn't agree to it but paid anyway

• They ignored it

Who's perspective named it the Boston Massacre?

• Soldiers

• King George

• Parliament

• Colonists

After the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed some acts as a punishment for the colonists called...

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Acts

• The Tolerable Acts

• The Stamp Acts

What was the main purpose of the First Continental Congress?

• To discuss slavery

• To write the Constitution

• To discuss how to respond to Britain & the Intolerable Acts

• To meet each other for the first time