Road to Revolution

Put these events in order.

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Act

• French and Indian War

Match the following

• a representative at a meeting

• 1st Continental Congress

• to end

• repeal

• refuse to buy or do certain things

• delegate

• a meeting of colonial representatives in 1774

• Boycott

Great Britain wanted the colonies to help pay for the ​ (a)   provided by its troops. In 1765, the British ​ (b)   passed a new law called the ​ (c)   Act. An act is a law. The Quartering Act ordered the colonists to provide quarters, or ​ (d)   , for British troops. The ​ (e)   also had to give the soldiers food, fuel, and transportation

• protection
• Parliament
• Quartering
• places to live
• colonists

Leaders in ​ (a)   saw that it would be nearly impossible to collect any money from the ​ (b)   . Parliament voted to ​ (c)   the Stamp Act in 1766. This news was celebrated with parades and fireworks in the colonies. But Britain still needed ​ (d)   And King George III insisted that Britain had the ​ (e)   to tax the colonies, no matter what some of the colonist leaders thought. 

• Britain
• Stamp Tax
• repeal
• money
• right

Reorder the following

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• 1st Continental Congress

John Adams was famous for

• starting the Sons of Liberty

• Starting the Committees of Correspondence

• Defending the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre

• being a silversmith

Sam Adams was famous for

CHOOSE 2

• writing the Declaration of Independence

• starting the Sons of Liberty

• starting the Committees of Correspondence

• being governor of Massachusetts

Match the following

• closed Boston Harbor

• intolerable acts

• organized protests

• Sons of Liberty

• colonial leaders wrote to each other

• Committees of Correspondence

• required colonists to house and feed soldiers

• Quartering Act

Then in a reaction to the Tea Act, which forced colonists to buy one type of tea, Bostonian protesters participated in the ​ (a)   . This led to a repressive set of laws nicknamed the ​ (b)   which included the closing of ​ (c)   Britain also sent a ​ (d)   to rule over Massachusetts.

• Boston Tea Party
• the Intolerable Acts
• Boston Harbor
• royal governor

One of the ways people protested the Townshend Act was by ----

• sending supplies to Boston

• boycotting buying British goods

• repealing the Act

• sending delegates to Parliament