Social Studies Weekly WK 19 Leading up to the Revolution

Which word is associated with this picture?

• loyalist

• Parliament

• philanthropy

• protest

What is the message that Paul Revere could have been trying to convey through his Boston Massacre engraving?

• The colonists were equally prepared to fight the British.

• That the British didn’t have a chance against the colonists.

• That the colonists were victims and were unfairly attacked.

• That the British were simply trying to defend themselves against an angry crowd.

The French and Indian War was fought between _________________.

• the French and the American Indians

• the French and the British

• the British and the American Indians against the French

• the French and the American Indians against the British

Growing __________________ led to war between Great Britain and the colonists.

• protest

• tension

• proclamation

• loyalty

The Boston Tea Party was one of the first formal acts of ________________ by the colonists.

• protest

• defense

• Parliament

• revolution

King George sent a _____________________ stating that the colonists would have to house British soldiers.

• revolution

• tension

• proclamation

• protest

With their motto “no taxation without representation” the colonists wanted to say that ______________________.

• they did not want to pay taxes at all

• they wanted to pay taxes, but only if they were able to set the amount

• they did not want to pay taxes because they did not decide how the money was spent

• they wanted the Loyalists to leave America and only keep the Patriots

The Stamp Act stated that the colonists had to _______________________.

• pay tax on products derived from sugar

• pay taxes on printed products like newspapers and letters

• only buy tea from the East India Company

• be in their homes before dark

After the French and Indian War, tensions between colonists and Redcoats were at an all-time high. Which event happened first?

• A Royal Proclamation told the colonists they could not move west past the Appalachian mountains.

• Colonists had to provide a place for British soldiers to live.

• Colonists and British soldiers fought in what was later called the Boston Massacre.

• The Boston Tea Party happened.

• The Tea Act stated that the Colonies could only buy tea from Britain.

Check all of the idea about which Samuel Adams spoke.

• no taxation without representation

• boycott English goods

• beginning a Committee of Correspondence

• going back to England