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Worksheets1.3 British Acts
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This act allowed King George to make all decisions for the colonists and create any taxes that he wanted.
The Declaratory Act
The Townshend Acts
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
This act allowed British soldiers to live in colonial homes.
The Quebec Act
The Stamp Act
The Declaratory Act
The Quartering Act
This law placed a tax on all printed material in the colonies including wills, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards.
The Declaratory Act
The Stamp Act
The Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts
This act gave an unfair advantage to a the British East India Company by allowing the British company to not pay tax on tea.
The Tea Act
The Townshend Act
The Coercive Act
The Declaratory Act
These acts placed a tax only on imported goods like paper, glass, tea, and lead.
The Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts
The Townshend Acts
Writs of Assistance
These very harsh acts were designed after the Boston Tea Party and included closing Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the ruined tea.
The Townshend Acts
The Stamp Act
The Sugar Act
The Coercive Acts
What was the COLONIAL name for the acts that closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, and other harsh penalties?
The Coercive Acts
The Townshend Acts
The Intolerable Acts
The Proclamation of 1763
Which event completes the diagram?
Colonial agricultural trade increases
Colonial religious devotion increases
Colonial demand for political change increases
Colonial demand for military assistance increases
One purpose of the First Continental Congress was:
to ask King George to respect the colonists’ rights as British citizens and establish peace.
to declare the colonies’ independence from Britain.
to declare war on Britain.
to pass laws concerning the colonies.
The Proclamation of 1763 angered many colonists because:
did not allow settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.
drafted colonists into military service.
required colonists to join Hudson’s Bay Company.
taxed colonists on their purchases of imported goods.
The Coercive Acts of 1774 included
the Quartering Act.
the Stamp Act.
the Sugar Act.
the Tea Act.
Which of the following groups was responsible for the Declaration of Independence?
First Continental Congress
House of Burgesses
Second Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
Writs of assistance allowed British officers to:
ban all forms of public protest
create trade networks with the Native Americans
return to England and serve the king
enter colonists homes and look for smuggled goods
Which of the following was a direct impact of the French and Indian War?
Relationships improve between the colonists and Native Americans
Great Britain's government obtains a massive debt
France gains control of North America
Colonists receive permission to move westward onto French land
The colonists responded to the Stamp Act by:
taxing British goods.
purchasing enough stamps to create a shortage.
boycotting British goods.
trading more with the Native Americans.
Which of the following best explains why Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766?
Parliament agreed with the American colonists that the act was unfair.
Colonial legislators were threatening to impose their own taxes.
Colonists’ boycotts of British goods were hurting British trade.
The British passed the Declaratory Act, which replaced it with a heavier tax.
Which best describes the Boston Tea Party of 1773?
American Indians boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea into the water.
Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.
The British dumped tea in Boston Harbor after colonists boycotted a shipment of tea, refusing to buy it.
Colonists met in Boston’s Old South Meeting House to discuss how to smuggle tea into the colonies.
What does smuggle mean?
To refuse to buy something
To send a document making a demand
To make a top secret group
To sneak goods in or out
Why did Parliament decide to make the colonies pay part of the war debt?
A lot of British troops had deserted
The British believed the war had been fought for the colonist's benefit.
Britain had gained no new territory from the war.
Britain had lost the war.
