Blank Quiz

Which Act gave the East India Company as advantage over colonial merchants?

• Declaratory Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• The Tea Act

What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Coercive Acts
• Intolerable Acts

Which act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists?

• Declaratory Act
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts

Goods being imported to the colonies were taxed by which act?

• Declaratory Act
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts

Which act taxed the colonists without their consent?

• Declaratory Act
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts

Which of the following allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?

• Proclamation of 1763
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Writ of assistance

Colonists who saw no reason to break with Britain were called

• Redcoats
• Loyalists
• Brits
• Patriots

A militia is a group of citizen soldiers.

• True
• False

Musket is another word for cannon

• True
• False

Who was Thomas Gage?

• Prime Minister of England
• Head of the Boston Sons of Liberty
• the British general ordered to arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia
• a messenger who rode with Paul Revere to warn colonists that the British were coming