Causes of the American Revolution

The Battle of Lexington was the first battle of the American Revolution.

• True

• False

What act forced colonists to buy tea from the British East India Company?

• The Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Sugar ACt

American colonist thought the taxes to be unfair because, "no taxation without ___________________."

• Representation

• Payment

• Trial

• congress

What does it mean to boycott goods?

• purchase in large quantity

• only buy when necessary

• sneak in goods

• refuse to purchase goods

Why were the colonists upset about the taxes?

• the colonists were not upset; they agreed to the taxes

• because the taxes were only for the rich people

• because they had no representatives in Parliament and were the only people being taxed

• because the taxes came from France

A meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to discuss British actions and what to do about them was:

• First Continental Congress

• Parliament

How did the colonists respond to unfair taxation?

• Boycott

• Persecution

• Petition

Why did British economic policy change towards the colonies?

• War debt due to the French and Indian War

• Cash crops were needed in the colonies

What was the name of the event in Boston on December 1773, where people dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest?

• The Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Revolutionary War

• The battle of Bunker Hill

The army of the Thirteen Colonies in the Revolutionary-era United States

• Red Coats

• Continental Army

• minutemen

• British Army