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WorksheetsSocial Studies #14
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This excerpt from the Declaration of Independence refers to which of the following actions taken by the British government?
passage of the Stamp Act in 1765
enforcement of the Quartering Act in 1774
enforcement of the Intolerable Acts in 1774
establishment of the Proclamation Line in 1763
The earliest form of taxation without representation that was enforced by the British Parliament in the colonies was
the —
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Before the Revolution, the British felt it was fair to tax the colonists to help pay the expenses they had run up fighting which of the following?
Spanish Armada
Indian attacks in the South
French and Indian War
Loyalists
Use the graphic organizer to answer the question.
Which immediate colonial response best completes the graphic organizer?
Colonists Throw Tea in Boston Harbor
Colonists Petition Parliament’s Actions
Colonists Write the Declaration of Independence
Colonists Fire at British Soldiers at Lexington and Concord
Which of the following groups opposed the Declaration of Independence?
Patriots
Loyalists
Sons of Liberty
Continental Congress
Which pamphlet did Thomas Paine write to encourage the colonist to fight for independence from Britain?
The Crisis
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Unalienable Rights
Colonist didn't like the Tea Act because....
It created a British enforced monopoly that limited their choices
It created a tax and tea that made it completely unaffordable
It helped Great Britain control the colonies even more by allowing more troops into Boston
It created a court system set up just to try cases of tea smuggling
Following the French and Indian War, Britain insisted that the American colonies help pay Britain's war debts. How did their insistence result in events leading up to the Revolutionary War?
Patriots refused to pay the taxes demanded by the British Parliament.
Tories began migrating to Canada to escape British persecution.
Mercantilism policies were abandoned by the British Parliament.
The British granted the rebels complete independence.
