13 Colonies Action and Reaction

This law put a import tax on foreign molasses and other luxuries?

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

This act put a tax on all printed material? All printed material had to be stamped and the stamp had to be placed by British officials.

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Acts

The Proclamation of 1763 forbids colonists from settling_____________

• west of the Atlantic Ocean
• in their own colonies
• in Florida
• West of the Appalachain Mountains

Which of the following became a rallying cry for colonists?

• "No Taxation Without Representation"
• "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death"
• "Down with the King"
• "No tyranny, only truth"

The event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped British property into the Boston Harbor in protest of British rule was the... 

• Boston Massacre
• Revolutionary War
• Boston Tea Party
• Tea Act

Why was the phrase “taxation without representation” so important to the revolutionary cause?

• Colonists did not wish to support a government in which they had no voice
• Great Britain would have ended taxation if colonists had kept the peace
• Colonists believed that Great Britain should only tax certain items
• Great Britain only taxed the colonists to force them to rebel

The first major battle of the Revolutionary War, a skirmish between British soldiers and minutemen outside of Boston, was:

• Battle of Lexington and Concord
• Battle of Boston
• Battle of Trenton
• Battle of Yorktown

Which of the following is most direct cause of the British applying new taxes, like the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, to the colonies?

• It was a punishment for the Boston Tea Party

• It was a punishment for earlier poor treatment of tax collectors

• It was intended to raise money to pay off debts from the French and Indian War

• It was intended to replace the failed Sugar Act

Colonist were especially upset with the British government because it did not allow the -

• colonial business to support royal taxes
• colonists to have representation in Parliament
• powers of colonial legislatures to increase
• laws passed by parliament to govern the colonies

These acts were passed by British Parliament in
order to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea
Party

• Tea Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act