US History Games I

American colonists were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains by the _________________.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

The Sugar Act angered the colonists because _______________.

• they believed that sugar should not be taxed

• it raised the tax on sugar

• they believed it violated their rights as English citizens

• it allowed the British to import their own molasses

The Townshend Acts were different from the Stamp Act because ____________.

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods made in the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods imported into the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods sent from the colonies

• Townshend taxes were paid only on goods shipped to southern colonies

The colonists called the British soldiers _____.

• redcoats

• rascals

• rebels

• mercenaries

The Boston Massacre happened after_____

• the colonists moved forward, and someone knocked down a British soldier

• the British soldiers took some colonists hostage

• a British general told the troops to march on Boston

• the colonists demanded to see the king

After the Boston Massacre, Great Britain repealed all the Townshend Acts except the tax on _____.

• silk

• sugar

• stamps

• tea

How did the colonists who threw tea overboard into Boston Harbor disguise themselves?

• as French pirates

• as British soldiers

• as Native Americans

• as British sailors

To punish colonists for the “Boston Tea Party,” Parliament passed a law _____.

• outlawing tea

• banning homespun clothing

• requiring colonists to buy stamps

• closing Boston harbor

Delegates from all of the colonies except Georgia gathered at the Continental Congress in_____.

• Boston

• New York

• Philadelphia

• Concord

Colonists who saw no reason to break with Britain were called _____

• redcoats

• Loyalists

• Patriots

• delegates