Road to Revolution Quiz

Match the following

• agriculture and trade

  diverse population

  moderate climate

• New England Colonies

• Cash crops

  plantations

  House of Burgesses

  Warm and humid climate

• Middle Colonies

• used trade, shipbuilding, fishing and fur trapping to make money

  Included Pilgrims and Puritans

• Southern Colonies

This practice allowed the colonies to be independent from British rules and regulations, until the King changed his mind was (a)  

• salutary neglect
• mercantilism
• colonialism
• imperialism

Reorder the following acts, in sequential order

• sugar act

• stamp act

• tea act

• townshend acts

• quartering act

This person became leader of the Continental Army after having success during the French and Indian War

• Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was important to the Revolution because (a)   .

• he convinced many to join the Patriot cause
• he was a British spy
• he was the leader of the Revolution
• he wrote the Declaration of Indepen

This practice had been used to take advantage of colonists by Britain in regards to trade

• Intolerable Acts

• mercantilism

• Salutary neglect

• quartering

Explain why John Adams defended the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre, even though he was a Patriot

• He had Civic Virtue

• He wanted the money

• He believed the soldiers were innocent

• He was really a Loyalist spy

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do to make colonists unhappy?

Where was the Proclamation of 1763 line?

The Townshend Acts led to (a)  

• the Boston Massacre
• the Tea Act
• the Stamp Act
• the Sugar Act