Events Leading to American Revolution Review

Why did King George III begin taxing the colonists?

• He didn't like them
• He was selfish
• England needed money to pay debts from the French and Indian War
• The colonists had extra money

What is the group called who makes the English laws?

• President
• Parliment
• People's Republic
• Congress

This Act made colonists buy stamps to place on all their printed/legal documents. 

• Tea Act
• Quartering Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act

What was the city causing the most trouble for King George III?

• Atlanta
• Boston
• New York City
• Savannah

What does "boycott" mean?

• to refuse to buy goods or services from someone
• to pay taxes
• to sell things to other coutries
• to feel everything is good

The main problem the colonists had with the taxes was __________.

• They didn't have a say in making the tax laws (especially after the Stamp Act)

• they just didn't want to pay taxes
• they didn't have any money
• they didn't mind paying taxes

The Quartering Act called for _____ to be housed in colonists' homes to save money for Parliament.

• Soldiers
• Weapons
• Protesters
• Officials

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion
• feared it would provoke attacks from the Native Americans
• did not want to share control of the fur trade with France
• wanted to be able to trade with foreign nations

Paul Revere’s engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British feelings among the colonists?

• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Proclamation of 1763

Goods being imported to the colonies were taxed by which act?

• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act