Causes of the American Revolution

The refusal to buy products is called ____.

• debt

• boycott

• tariff

• tension

Who won the French and Indian War?

• American Indians

• French

• British

• Germans

Because of the French and Indian War, _____________________.

• Britain was in debt.

• France controlled the Ohio River Valley.

• the American Indians had no land.

• the colonists could settle land west of the Mississippi River.

A lawmaking body is called _____.

• the King's Court

• the Crown

• Congress

• Sons of Liberty

The taxes that Britain put on all paper products was called the _____.

• Townshend Act

• Paper Act

• Tax Act

• Stamp Act

What did the phrase "No taxation without representation" mean to the colonists?

• They would not pay any taxes to Britain.

• All British people should pay the taxes.

• They should not be taxed without representation in the government.

• They were going to make the British pay more of the taxes.

The repeal of the Stamp Act was the first time Britain had _____.

• backed down from the colonies

• taxed the British

• had ever repealed an act

• did not do what the colonists wanted

The Townshend Act put a tax on _____.

• paper

• glass

• tea

• vegetables

Which of the following is NOT an effect of the Townshend Act.

• The colonists began to boycott British merchants.

• Colonists harassed tax collectors.

• Colonists were happy with the King.

• The colonists began to think about forming their own union.

Hoping to scare the colonists and pressure them into buying British products, the King _____.

• sent warships into Boston Harbor

• visited the colonists and threatened them

• sent soldiers to every colony

• put taxes on all products shipped to the colonies