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WorksheetsCauses of the Revolution
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why did Britain make the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts?
a)
King wanted colonists to come back to England.
b)
Britain needed money after the French and Indian War
c)
Britain thought the colonists were too rich.
d)
Britain wanted to give money to the colonists.
2.
Which is a way the colonists protested taxes?
a)
They paid the taxes.
b)
King George was made king of England.
c)
Colonists boycotted British goods.
d)
The Stamp Act was passed.
3.
What was the Stamp Act?
a)
tax on paper goods like newspapers and cards
b)
tax on food
c)
tax on clothes
d)
tax on tea
4.
What was the effect of British taxes on the colonists?
a)
Colonists moved to Mexico.
b)
Colonists joined together as Americans.
c)
Colonists paid British for their soldiers.
d)
Many colonists returned to England.
5.
What was the Tea Act?
a)
a law about taxes on bread
b)
a law about taxes on seeds for crops
c)
a law about where British troops would live
d)
a law saying colonists had to buy tea from one company and pay a tax
6.
Which of the following is a form of protest?
a)
paying your taxes
b)
refusing to pay taxes
c)
helping your enemy
d)
a king telling people what to do
7.
What is a militia?
a)
a king
b)
a governor
c)
a volunteer army
d)
a president
8.
What did the Boston Tea Party show the British?
a)
that colonists don't like tea
b)
that colonists support the Mohawks
c)
that colonists protested the tea tax
d)
that colonists would keep the tea
9.
Which of the following caused the British to make the Intolerable Acts?
a)
the Civil War
b)
First Continental Congress
c)
Committees of Correspondance
d)
Boston Tea Party
10.
Which was NOT one of the Intolerable Acts?
a)
paying a tax on ships
b)
feeding and housing the British soldiers
c)
the port of Boston was closed
d)
Massachusetts was put under control of British soldiers
11.
This was when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists.
a)
Boston Tea Party
b)
Boston Massacre
c)
Intolerable Acts
d)
First Continental Congress
12.
What did the colonists mean by "No taxation without representation"?
a)
Taxes are made by the Continental Congress
b)
No taxes without American representation in the British Parliament
c)
Americans liked paying taxes to Britain.
d)
The British wanted to protect them from the Native Americans.
13.
Which people needed to join together?
a)
French
b)
Canadians
c)
British
d)
colonists
14.
Who warned the colonists that the British soldiers were coming?
a)
Paul Revere
b)
George Washington
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
King George III
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