Road to the American Revolution

Why did Great Britain raise taxes in the American colonies?

• To punish them.

• To get rich.

• To see how it worked.

• To pay for the French and Indian War.

What is it called when you refused to buy goods from a certain country?

• Protest.

• Blackmail.

• Boycott.

• Extortion.

The Boston Massacre was considered propaganda because…

• It only showed the colonists' viewpoint.

• It favored the British.

• It was fake.

• Nobody believed it.

Also known as the Intolerable Acts these were a series of measures designed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

Secret society that sometimes used violence to frighten tax collectors.

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalists

• Patriot

• Daughters of Liberty

Law or decree that required colonists to house British soldiers

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

Law or decree that required colonists to buy a stamp in order to buy paper products.

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Act

What was the name of the organization or group founded to share ideas and information about British laws and ways to challenge them?

• Sons of Liberty

• Committee of Correspondence

• Boston Tea Party

• Anarchists

The practice of not enforcing the laws governing the colonies.

• Committee of Correspondence

• Salutary Neglect

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

The idea or concept that Great Britain could not impose taxes on the colonists unless they approved of them with a vote.

• Committee of Correspondence

• Salutary Neglect

• No Taxation without Representation

• Intolerable Acts