Video Causes of the American Revolution

The conflict between Britain and France, beginning in the 1680s, was centered on

• control of colonial trade

• control of Native American populations

• competition for the fame and honor of controlling more land in North America than any other country

• All of the above.

What was the result of 70 years of war between the British and the French?

• Britain was left nearly bankrupt

• France gave up its control of all land in North America

• The Native Americans peacefully retreated further west away from the American colonies.

• Britain began to enforce new taxes on the colonies.

• American colonists willingly supported the new taxes for Great Britain

What actions did colonists take in response to the passage of the Stamp Act?

• They willingly paid the taxes.

• They protested through boycotts of British goods, petitionied the British government to change the law, and burned the tax collectors in effigy,

• They created the Committees of Correspondence in order to improve communications between the various colonies.

• They created the Sons of Liberty

• They ignored the taxes and went on with their lives.

As a result of colonial protests agains the Stamp Act, the British Government

• repealed the Stamp Act

• increased the taxes charged in the Stamp Act

• decreased the taxes in the Stamp Act

• negotiated with the British colonists in America to find more agreeable methods of taxation

How did the Daughters of Liberty contribute to protests against British tax laws?

• They went on hunger strikes until the government changed its policies.

• They marched in the streets demanding change.

• They made their own cloth so that they did not have to buy cloth from Britain

• They wrote letters of protests to their relatives in Britain.

What did the Sons of Liberty do to prevent the British from creating a monopoly on tea in the American colonies?

• They boarded the British ships and threw the tea into the harbor.

• They forced the ships to return to England

• They sank the ships carrying the tea.

• They stood by and watched the British unload the tea into Boston shops.