Leaders $ Causes of the American Revolution

Which are true statements about mercantilism?

(3 correct answer choices)

• colonies provided raw materials for mother country to make manufactrured goods

• colonies did not like the system since mother country used colonies to increase wealth

• colonies were free to trade with anyone they wanted

• mother country became stricter about enforcing rules after salutary neglect ended

Which taxes were passed by the British without representation from American colonies?

(2 correct answer choices)

• Stamp Act

• Quebec Act

• Townshend Acts

• Money Act

• Paper Act

Why did Parliament require American colonists to pay new taxes during the 1760s?

• to pay debts that the British earned from fighting the French and Indian War

• to pay for tea which was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party

Why did the British pass the Intolerable Acts in 1774?

• to punish Americans for the Boston Tea Party

• to pay debts from the French and Indian War

How did the British benefit from winning the French and Indian War?

• got more land and expanded west to the Mississippi River

• captured the King of France and made him a slave

Match the following foreign leaders of the American Revolution

• German trained troops at Valley Forge

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Frenchmen who broughts ships & money

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Spaniard that attacked British in the Gulf of Mexico

• Baron von Steuben

Mercy Otis Warren wrote (a)   Abigail Adams wrote letter to her husband John Adams saying to remember the ​ (b)   .

• plays and history books
• ladies

George Washington was the ​ (a)   ​

while ​ (b)   was the leader of the British Army. ​ (c)   convinced ​ (d)   to become allies with the USA.

• leader/commander of the Continental Army
• rode to get reinforcements
• Asia
• Daughters of Liberty and Federalist
• Charles Cornwallis
• Benjamin Franklin
• France
• Wentworth Cheswell

Authors during the American Revolution were Thomas Paine who wrote ​ (a)   advocating for war and independence. ​ (b)   who wrote the Declaration of Independence on ​ (c)   that separated USA from the British. Today this is a holiday called ​ (d)  

• Common Sense
• Thomas Jefferson
• July, 4 1776
• George Washington
• March 5, 1770
• plays
• Independence Day
• Memorial Day

James Armistead was a ​ (a)   who helped with the ​ (b)   while John Paul Jones is known as the ​ (c)   .

• spy
• Father of the Navy.
• Father of the Army
• lawyer
• Battle of Yorktown 1781
• Battle of Saratoga 1777