Causes of the Revolutionary War

Why did King George III and Parliament need to raise taxes on the colonies such as the Stamp, Sugar and Tea Act?

• They wanted the colonists to become angry

• They needed to pay off the debt from the French and Indian War

• They needed to make England richer

• all of the answers

This law forbid settlers to settle beyond the Appalachian Mountains following the French Indian War, and added to the resentment colonists had towards the King and Parliament

• Proclamation of 1763

• Quartering Act

• Tea Act

• Currency Act

What is a "boycott?"

• a type of cot/bed common on colonial trade ships

• a baby horse

• an agreement to do business

• a refusal to buy certain goods

Tax on paper products such as playing cards, wills, deeds, letters, and other government documents.

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

Tax on sugar and molasses

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

Act passed that mandated colonists must house, feed, and provide transportation for British Troops.

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

In what ways did the colonists react to the Acts and laws passed by the British King and Parliament?

• rioting, destroying and setting fire to the Colonies.

• They refused and returned to England.

• Colonists boycotted, protested, and published propaganda against the taxes.

• None of the above

The _________________________ ______________________ was a turning point in aggression displayed between British Soldiers and Colonists outside off the Customs Building in Boston that resulted in 5 colonists being killed.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Proclamation of 1763

• French and Indian War

What was the Boston Tea Party?

• Sons of Liberty threw all the tea into the harbor in protest of the Tea Act

• Patriots sat and had tea with King George

• Native Americans threw all the tea into the Boston Harbor as retaliation

• King George had a sale on tea and sent it to the colonies

Why were the Intolerable acts created?

• To destroy the colonies

• To punish the colonist for throwing tea in the boston harbor

• to stop the Boston Massacre, and colonists protesting