Road to the Revolution

Who assisted the French in their attempt to maintain control of the Ohio Valley?

• Native Americans

• The Spanish

• The English

When the French lost the French and Indian War, what did they surrender to North America?

• tea

• land claims

• paper

Ben Franklin created a segmented snake in his primary source, "Join or Die", to encourage the colonies to ______ them together against the French.

Colonists were angry about the Tea Act because England gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.

• true

• false

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of colonial leasers. They sent a petition to King George III stating that

• They were separating from England immediately.

• Parliament's taxation of the colonies without representation was unfair

• Colonists were no longer willing to be British citizens.

The stamp act was a tax on all ______ items.

• tea

• paper

• land

The Boston Massacre was a clash between _______ and __________.

• British soldiers

• Native Americans

• colonists

• King George III

On December 16, 1773, 342 crates of tea were tossed into Boston Harbor in an act of rebellion. The act is now known as ___________

• The Boston Massacre

• The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Townshend Acts

British soldiers were marching to Lexington and Concord for two reasons. First they wanted to capture rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Second they wanted to___________

• destroy colonial weapons

• Boycott the Stamp Act

• Boycott the Tea Act

• Go to war on Bunker Hill

England punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party by creating the

• First Continental Congress

• The Townshend Acts

• The Coercive Acts