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Revolutionary Causes

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Why did General Gage march his troops from Boston into the countryside in April of 1775?
a)
for fun
b)
to capture Billy Dawes
c)
to arrest patriot leaders and destroy the militia's supplies
d)
to break up the Albany Plan of Union
2.
Why did the British impose the Stamp Act on the Colonists?
a)

To raise money in the colonies to pay the costs of defending them
b)
To put a tax on the colonists’ trade with foreign nations
c)
to prevent the colonists from trading with Canada 
d)
to prevent smuggling
3.
Who were the Son's of Liberty?
a)
A group that trained troops to respond to British tyranny
b)
A group that organized peaceful and violent protests against Parliament's laws
c)
A group that helped enforce the Stamp Act
d)
A group that disliked patriots.
4.
What happened in Boston on March 5, 1770?
a)
The Boston Tea Party
b)
The Boston Massacre
c)
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
d)
The Battle of Breed's Hill
5.
Most colonists didn't like the Proclamation of 1763 because it prevented settlers from...
a)
settling the Ohio Valley
b)
Smuggling sugar
c)
Drinking foreign tea
d)
taxing their own goods
6.
Which law made the colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents?
a)
Sugar Act
b)
Townshend Acts
c)
Stamp Act
d)
Declaratory Act
7.

Which act said that Great Britain had the authority to rule the colonies.

a)

Proclamation of 1763

b)

Declaratory Act

c)

Townshend Acts

d)

Tea Act

8.

The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the...

a)

Townshend Acts

b)

Tea Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Declaratory Act

9.

Which of these allowed British officials the authority to search colonists' homes and businesses without probable cause?

a)

writs of habeas corpus

b)

writs of assistance

c)

the quartering act

d)

the coercive acts

10.
Which happened first?
a)
Stamp Act
b)
Boston Massacre
c)
Intolerable Acts
d)
Quartering Act
11.
Which happened last?
a)
Battle of Lexington and Concord
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Coercive Acts
d)
Proclamation of 1763
12.
This colonial leader defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
a)
Samuel Adams
b)
Samuel Prescott
c)
William Dawes
d)
John Adams
13.
This man was a silversmith and a member of Boston's Son's of Liberty. (He also looks suspiciously like Jack Black)
a)
Paul Revere
b)
George Grenville
c)
John Adams
d)
John Hancock
14.

He was the leader of the Boston Son's of Liberty.

a)

Samuel Adams

b)

John Adams

c)

King George

d)

John Dickinson

15.

He was the leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.

a)

King George

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

George Grenville

d)

William Pitt

16.
A colonist who sided with the British was called a 
a)
Loyalist (Tory)
b)
Patriot (whig)
c)
Deomcrat
d)
Republican
17.
Colonists that disagreed with the British and preferred rebellion were called
a)
Torys
b)
Patriots
c)
Loyalists
d)
Jacobins
18.
When a group refuses to buy goods it is called a 
a)
boycott
b)
repeal
c)
protest
d)
propaganda
19.

Information that is designed to influence public opinion.

a)

Propaganda

b)

Protest

c)

Repeal

d)

John Adams

20.

This group organized both peaceful (boycotts) and violent (tarring and feathering) protests.

a)

The Sons of Liberty

b)

The Committees of Columbus

c)

The Sons of Anarchy

d)

Tories

21.

This was a meeting in September 1774 where 12 of the 13 colonies sent leaders to discuss options before them.

a)

Lexington and Concord

b)

Sons of Liberty Convention

c)

First Continental Congress

d)

Committees of Correspondence Meeting

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