Road to the Revolution

What two countries fought over land in the French and Indian War?

• France and Indians

• France and Spain

• France and Great Britain

• Great Britain and Indians

France and Britain went to war over the disputed area on the map. What is this area called?

• The Great River Basin

• The Ohio River Valley

• The Spanish Florida

• Canada

Britain needed to pay off war debt after a war in the colonies . Which war was the King of Britain trying to pay off?

• World War I

• The Revolutionary War

• The French and Indian War

• The Boston Massacre

Americans disliked Proclamation of 1763, the boundary drawn on the map, because it...

• means taxes would be higher for settlers who crossed

• allowed the French to move to the Ohio River Valley

• prevented prevented them from fighting with Spain

• did not allow them to move past the Appalachian Mountains

The first taxes that the British placed on the colonies was the

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

The American colonists dumped chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest...

• the use of French tea instead of English tea

• the quartering of British troops in colonial homes

• the British siding with the Native Americans

• the tax and the monopoly on tea given to the British

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
• the Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act 
• taxation without representation 

This event created more tensions between the colonist and the British troops when shots were fired. Crispus Attucks was the first to be killed.

• Boston Tea Party 

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Lexington

• Quartering Act

Which of these acts passed by the British parliament forced colonists to provide British soldiers with food, transportation, and housing?

• the Proclamation of 1763
• the Quartering Act 
• the Stamp Act 
• the Tea Act

What is the most likely reason the crowd began bothering the British soldiers on the night of the Boston Massacre?

• The soldiers represented Great Britain’s control over the colonies and the taxes. 

• The soldiers started calling the crowd names.

• The colonists did not want to go inside the tax building to pay taxes.

• The colonists did not like Captain Preston’s red jacket.