Road to Revolution Quiz

Why did Great Britain pass the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts?

• to pay for keeping an army in North America and to pay off debt from the French and Indian War

• to punish colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party
• to pay for new roads and canals across North America
• to punish colonists for supporting the French during the French and Indian War

Colonists challenged British taxes effectively by (_), or choosing not to purchase or use British goods.

• boycotting
• buying
• smuggling
• stealing

What was the Boston Massacre?

• the violent seizure of colonists to serve in the British army and navy
• the execution of British soldiers for their part in the deaths of five colonists
• an attack on colonists by British soldiers to punish them for boycotting British goods
• an incident where colonists clashed with British soldiers and five colonists died as a result

What was the Tea Act?

• it forced colonists to buy British tea instead of less-expensive colonial tea
• it limited how much tea each colonist could purchase from the British East India Company
• it placed a high tax on tea so that colonists had to pay higher prices for tea bought from colonial merchants

• it allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists instead of to colonial merchants

At the Boston Tea Party, colonists dressed as (_) and threw 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor.

• British sailors
• Native Americans
• British soldiers
• colonial women

Why did Parliament pass the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts?

• to punish Boston for the Boston Massacre
• to force colonists to pass their own laws
• to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party
• to force colonists to buy their own tea

One of the more disliked parts of the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts was the Quartering Act, which required colonists to...

• to serve on juries in court
• to pay for ruined tea
• to pay the salaries of British soldiers
• to allow British soldiers to stay or live in their houses

Why did many American colonists object to paying new taxes imposed on them following the French and Indian War?

• they felt that landowners and merchants should pay taxes
• they were unable to afford the added costs related to these taxes
• they felt the only local governments should be able to pass taxes
• they were unable to vote for representatives who passed these taxes

Samuel Adams helped found the (_), which shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.

• House of Burgesses
• Committees of Correspondence

The (_) required colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal, whenever they bought paper items.

• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act