Think Like a Historian & Road to Independence Quiz

What event happened first? * Hint: Think about why Great Britain needed to tax the colonist?

• French and Indian War

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

What vocabulary word means: to refuse to buy or do certain things?

• repeal

• boycott

• representative

• 1st Continental Congress

One of the ways people protested the Townshend Act was by..

• Singing a mean song about the King

• repealing the act

• boycotting British Goods

• sending someone to represent the colonies in Parilament

What is the act called that taxed all legal documents like newspapers, books, and playing cards?

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

King George started taxing the colonies to get back money that was spent during the ________ war.

• French and Indian War

• American Revolutionary War

• War of 1812

• Civil War

What was the name of the group that was loyal to Great Britain and King George?

(a)  

What is the name of the group that wants freedom from England and King George?

(a)  

What is the name of the men's patriot group that wanted freedom from England and King George? This group started in Boston in 1775.

• The Tories

• One Direction

• Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

What was the Quartering Act?

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  If you chose to go to court against Britain, you would have to go to England

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  Colonists had to house British soldiers and provide for them

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  Sugar from countries besides England were taxed

• No good would be sent to colonies until tea was paid for

What started the Boston Massacre?

• King George told British soldiers to attack them

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  A colonist attacked a soldier outside a post office

• British soldiers caught colonists smuggling goods

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  An argument and a snowball fight