Road to Revolution

Who was the British monarch leading up to the American Revolution?

• Anthony Ashley Cooper

• George Washington

• Charles II

• George III

Goods brought into a country for sale

• Exports

• Cash Crops

• Imports

• Tariffs

Why did Parliament choose to raise taxes on the American colonies beginning in 1763?

• To build a new home for the Royal Governor

• To buy a surplus of rice and indigo

• To help pay the French and Indian War Debt

• To increase subsidies to Indigo plantation owners

What was the purpose of the intolerable acts?

• A response to the Boston Tea Party

• To put a duty on lead, paint, and tea

• Prevent smuggling of French goods

• To allow colonists to move into the Cherokee Territory

A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Duties

• Continental Congress

• Sugar Act

To refuse to buy products, goods or use the services of a merchant or country.

• Smuggle

• Merchantilism

• Picket

• Boycott

What were colonists trying to express with the phrase "No taxation, without representation!"

• Colonists thought that the king should replace the General Assembly

• Colonists believed that every man should think for themself

• Colonists thought that is was unfair that they had no voice in Parliament

• Colonists did not agree with the taxes, but were going to accept them

What did the Tea Act create?

• A law against exporting tea to the Caribbean

• An alliance of the colonists with Asian tea markets

• A monopoly on tea sales to the colonists through the British Easy India Company

• Tax on imported tea that the colonists paid weekly

The lawmaking body of the British government

• Senate

• Congress

• King

• Parliament

Which two battles started the American Revolution in the colonies?

• Charles Town and Boston

• Philadelphia and Boston

• Lexington and Concord

• Georgetown and Charles Town