Causes of the American Revolution & Declaration of Independence

Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?

• The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
• Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
• The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
• Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.

What was the main reason that the colonists were protesting?

• They didn`t like the type of tea that was shipped to them
• They wanted the ships to leave
• They thought the tea was priced too high
• They felt they were being taxed unfairly without being represented in the government

A snowball fight between the colonists and soldiers in Boston that ended in 5 colonists being killed was called

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Party
• Boston Parliament

A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act was called

• Congress
• Sons of Liberty
• Parliament
• Loyalists

What was the name of the group that met to discuss what the colonists should do about unfair laws like the Intolerable Acts?

• The First Continental Congress

• The House of Burgesses

• The Sons of Liberty

• The Boston Tea Party

How did the colonists resist British laws an taxes?

• Boycotts

• Protests

• Tarring and feathering tax collectors

• All of the above

British colonists object to the Proclamation of 1763 because they -

• feared it would provoke attacks from American Indains

• did not want to share control of the fur trade with France

• resent the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

The British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to limit the area British colonists were allowed to settle. Which geographic feature did the British use as the boundary of approved settlement?

• Lake Michigan

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

.The 1765 act that taxed all paper and printed goods in the colonies was called the ____________.

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

What did the colonists call the laws that were passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Quartering Act