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WorksheetsCauses of the Revolution and Declaration of Independence
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
What is the main reason for the Declaration of Independence?
To show the colonist could write as well as anyone.
To let all nations know we are free.
To inform King George that the colonies would no longer be under British rule.
To give Thomas Jefferson a reason to write a letter.
What did the Stamp Act do?
It placed a tax on stamps
It placed a tax on paper products
It required colonists to put stamps on all letters they mailed
It required the colonists to use paper with an official Revenue Stamp for their printed documents
What did the Sugar Act do?
It placed a tax on sweet candies
It placed a tax on sugar and molasses
It stated that all colonists must use sugar
It was created to increase the sale of sugar in the colonies
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
It allowed colonists to live wherever they liked
It did not allow colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
It allowed colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
It made colonist move west of the Appalachian Mountains
The Boston Tea Party was carried out by who?
The Liberty Boys
The Sons of Liberty
The Daughters of Liberty
The Sons of Anarchy
A loyalist is someone who was loyal to the British King.
True
False
Those who were loyal to the colonies and the revolution were known as what?
Red Coats
Liberties
Rioters
Patriots
Crispus Attucks was the first person who was killed during what?
The Battle of Lexington
The Boston Massacre
The Battle of Concord
The Battle of Bunker Hill
What act was passed to help bail out the British East India Company.
The Act of Congress
The Tea Act
The Sugar Act
The Coercive Acts
What man wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense? It encouraged colonist to fight for independence.
Thomas Paine
John Locke
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
These patriots were ready at a moment's notice.
Second men
Liberty boys
Minutemen
Army men
John Locke's writings were very influential to writers of the Declaration of Independence because of his 3 main beliefs.
Life, Liberty, and Libraries
Life, Liberty, and Property
Live, Laugh, and Love
Liberty, Happiness, and Laughter
The Boston Tea Party involved doing what?
Drinking tea in Boston
Dumping tea into Boston Harbor
Dumping tea into The Connecticut River
Celebrating the love of tea in Boston
What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress?
To explain to the king why they believed they were being treated unfairly and to ban trade from Britain until The Coercive acts were repealed.
To explain to the king that we were ready to start The Revolutionary War.
To explain to the king that we were happy to continue to serve him and pay all taxes imposed on us.
To explain that we are going to tax Britain for all goods brought into the colonies
The French and Indian War was also know as what?
The War to End All Wars
The Seven Years War
The War of 1812
The War of Britain
When the colonist refused to buy products it was called a what?
Boycott
Repeal
Borrow
Forgo
British soldiers were also known as what?
Turncoats
Redcoats
Warmcoats
Coat of many colors
The first shot of The Revolutionary War is famously called what?
The Shot of No Return
The Shot that Should Not Have Happened
The Shot to End All Shots
The Shot Heard Around the World
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 officially ended what?
The Intolerable Acts
The War of 1812
The French and Indian War
The Tea Act
The Declaration of Independence was officially approved on what day?
May 5, 1776
June 25, 1776
July 4, 1776
July 2, 1776
