Chapter 5 Test - The American Revolution

1. Why did Britain pass the Stamp Act in 1765?

• a) To pay off its debt from the French and Indian War
• b) To encourage trade with the American colonies
• c) To punish the American colonists
• d) To gain more control over the American colonies

2. What group of colonists organized protests in Boston?

• a) Sons of Liberty
• b) Daughters of Liberty
• c) Patriots of Liberty
• d) Freedom Fighters

3. Why did merchants refuse to buy British goods?

• a) To support the British government
• b) To show loyalty to Britain
• c) To protest against the Stamp Act
• d) To increase their own profits

4. What did the Townshend Acts do?

• a) Placed tariffs on imported goods from Britain
• b) Increased taxes on American colonists
• c) Established new laws for governing the colonies
• d) Repealed the Stamp Act

5. Which tax was not repealed after the repeal of the Townshend Acts?

• a) Tax on imported goods
• b) Tax on printed materials
• c) Tax on British goods
• d) Tax on tea

6. What event became known as the Boston Massacre?

• a) The Boston Tea Party
• b) The Intolerable Acts
• c) The shooting of colonists by British troops in Boston
• d) The meeting of the First Continental Congress

7. What were the Committees of Correspondence?

• a) Groups that sent letters to share news about British actions and colonial protests
• b) Groups that organized the Boston Tea Party
• c) Groups that formed militias to fight against British soldiers
• d) Groups that met to discuss the events in Boston

8. Why did colonists throw chests of British tea into the water during the Boston Tea Party?

• a) They wanted to support the British company selling tea in the colonies
• b) They wanted to please the British government
• c) They wanted to celebrate their victory in the American Revolution
• d) They wanted to protest against the tax on tea

9. What did the British pass in response to the Boston Tea Party?

• a) The Townsend Acts
• b) The Tea Act
• c) The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
• d) The Stamp Act

10. Where did the American Revolution begin?

• a) Boston
• b) Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill
• c) Virginia
• d) Philadelphia