American Revolution

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

What law placed high taxes on tea, cloth, and British goods?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Navigations Acts
• Stamp Act

What law made it very expensive for colonists to import molasses?

• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Acts
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act

What was another name for these British soldiers?

• patriots

• loyalists

• redcoats

• Minutemen

What is the 1st Cause of the American Revolution? 

• English and Indian War
• French and Indian War
• French and Spanish War
• English and Spanish War

• Ben Franklin
• Nathan Hale
• Patrick Henry
• George Washington

The French and Indian War cost Great Britain a lot of money. To help pay for the war, the colonies were ordered to

• give up their food

• work for free

• become a part of the Army

• pay taxes without representation

The Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. This act of protest is known as 

• the Boston Tea Party
• the Stamp Act
• Committees of Correspondence
• Boston Massacre

I wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams
• Benjamin Franklin

I am known for helping write the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Ben Franklin