Causes of the American Revolution Test

With which of the following do you associate the name Crispus Attucks?

• Boston Massacre

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Declaration of Independence

The special name for citizen soldiers who were trained to be ready at a moment's notice was?

• Redcoats

• Minutemen

• Militia

• First Responders

True or False: The Intolerable Acts were aimed at the colony of New York.

• True

• False

According to Thomas Paine, who should be able to make laws?

(a)  

True or False: After the passage of the Tea Act, tea in the colonies would be cheaper than before the tax.

• True

• False

True or False: The Quartering Act meant that British soldiers might live in the homes of the Colonists.

• True

• False

Who do you believed fired first at the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

The Colonists believed that Great Britain did not have the right to tax them without (a)   .

What caused the Boston Tea Party?

• Tea Tax

• The repeal of the Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

Show how the main ideas at the start of the Declaration of Independence make the complaints against the King a fair and logical reason to break away and form a new country.