Road to Revolution

Ben Franklin created this cartoon to motivate colonists to unite against:

• Governor Berkeley and rich Virginians

• The Iroquois Confederacy and their allies

• The British Monarchy

• The French and their Native American allies

Which of the following was NEW DEVELOPMENT occurring immediately after the French and Indian War?

• English settlers began to push west into Native Americans' territory.

• British colonists decided to break with Britain and become independent.

• English colonists began to question their place in the British Empire, as they felt they weren't respected as Englishmen.

• Native Americans organized to violently repel invading English settlers.

Which of the following applied a NEW TAX to the colonists?

• The Navigation Acts of 1751 and 1760

• The Stamp Act

• The Declaratory Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

Which is a correct interpretation of the British government's view toward the representation of the American colonists?

• The American colonists could not legally be represented in Parliament.

• The American colonists' colonial legislatures should identify a member of their group to speak with Parliament regularly.

• The American colonists had no right to be represented in Parliament as long as they continued to protest and cause trouble.

• The American colonists were represented in Parliament, just as all English subjects were.

This was organized for colonists to ensure that everyone was supporting the various boycotts of British goods and to be a sort of "shadow government" that secretly took control from the royal governors.

• Whigs

• Committees of Correspondence

• Committees of Observation and Safety

• Albany Conference

Who is the most likely victim in this image?

• A British loyalist who is being attacked by patriots

• A patriot, who is being attacked by loyalists

• The governor of Massachusetts

• A British tax collector

Which of these events, in the sequence of events that would lead to the Revolution, occurred EARLIEST?

• The Sugar Act

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Olive Branch Petition

• The non-importation movement

Which of the following is most direct cause of the British applying 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

Which of the following groups would be LEAST likely to support protests against British taxation and authority?

• Tories

• Whigs

• Republicans

• Patriots

How many colonists were "massacred" in the Boston Massacre?

• 7

• 28

• over 50

• about 120