Revolution Road Quiz

What was the main purpose of the Stamp Act?

• To allow British soldiers to stay in American homes

• To make Americans drink British tea

• To raise money from the American colonies by taxing printed materials

• To punish the American colonies for the Boston Tea Party

What event involved American colonists throwing tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

What were the Intolerable Acts?

• Laws that gave freedom to American colonies

• Taxes on tea, glass, and paper

• Punishments for the Boston Tea Party

• Acts allowing soldiers to live in colonists' homes

What happened during the Boston Massacre?

• British soldiers were killed by American colonists

• American colonists were killed by British soldiers

• British soldiers and American colonists had a tea party

• American colonists threw tea into the harbor

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?

• Disputes over tea taxes

• The Boston Tea Party

• Competition between Britain and France for land in North America

• The Stamp Act

What did the Quartering Act require?

• American colonists to house British soldiers

• British soldiers to pay for their own housing

• American colonists to pay a tax on tea

• British soldiers to leave America

What was the Tea Act?

• A law that made tea cheaper in the colonies but enforced a tax

• A law that banned tea in the colonies

• A law that increased the price of tea

• A law that allowed colonists to sell their own tea

What was the main goal of the First Continental Congress?

• To declare independence from Britain

• To discuss and respond to the Intolerable Acts

• To start the American Revolution

• To elect George Washington as president

What significant decision was made at the Second Continental Congress?

• To start the Boston Tea Party

• To repeal the Stamp Act

• To form the Continental Army

• To sign the Declaration of Independence

Which act was passed first?

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Quartering Act