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Worksheets7H Road to Revolution
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Who did the British fight against over settlements in the Ohio River Valley?
Native American Indians
French and Native American Indians
British
Colonist
What act taxed almost all printed materials in the colonies?
Sugar Act
Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
What event is this artwork depicting?
French and Indian War
American Revolutionary War
Bloody Massacre
Join Or Die Cartoon
The Proclamation of 1763 declared that colonial settlers could not go __________________ of the Appalachians Mountains.
North
South
East
West
What slogan did the colonists use when they were speaking against the British?
Join or Die
No Taxation without Representation
The British Are Coming....
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
What was the name of Britain's law-making assembly?
Parliament
Congress
House of Representatives
First Continental Congress
Imposed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
Refusal to buy imported goods
boycott
impose
repeal
militia
Dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor
Loyalists
Patriots
Sons of Liberty
Parliament
British fired into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 during the...
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
French and Indian War
Intolerable Acts
The Proclamation Line of 1763 led to disagreement between the colonists and the British government because it —
prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
offered all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to British nobles
banned colonial trading with the American Indians
surrendered control of the Great Lakes region to Canada
How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?
By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies
By requiring colonists to enlist in the military
By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have
By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries
In the decade following the French and Indian War, many American colonists believed that new British taxes were unfair because —
tax rates were higher in some colonies than in others
colonists were asked to pay higher taxes than those paid by people in England
American colonists lacked representation in Parliament
landowners paid higher taxes than merchants active in trade
This political cartoon was created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. What point of view does it express?
The colonies must unite against the French or face destruction.
The colonies must avoid conflict with Britain or face ruin.
The colonies must stop the swarm of poisonous snakes.
The colonies must obtain representation in the British Parliament.
What is the name of the act that the British passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid?
The Quartering Act
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Act
The Intolerable/ Coercive Acts
Which of the following best completes this diagram?
Colonists sought military support from France.
Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.
Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
In the American colonies, boycotts were an effective way of protesting British policies mainly because the boycotts -
ended trade within the colonies
kept out products from other European nations
forced Britain to remove most troops
caused economic hardships for British merchants
The French and Indian War was a turning point in the relationship between American colonists and the British government because the war -
increased French influence in North America
ended Native American Indian attacks west of the Appalachian Mountains
resulted in British debt and attempts to tax colonists
created an alliance with Canada against the British
What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
To keep colonists and Native Americans separate to avoid conflict
The King wanted control over the colonists so he made the proclamation to anger them
To keep the Spanish away from new British land
It meant Britain declared war on France because they wanted Florida.
What was the outcome of the French and Indian War?
The British were kicked out of North America
The French were kicked out of North America
Spain won the war and gained control of the West
America won because we are undefeated in all world wars
Why did the British decide to repeal the Stamp Act?
Colonist made fake stamps and the British could not tell the difference.
The colonists boycott British goods so the British didnt make much tax money
The British felt bad for the colonists so they repealed it
The French defeated the British in Europe and demanded Enland remove the tax
After the First Continental Congress the colonists sent a letter to the King telling him what was wrong and that they wanted peace. What was the response from the English?
The King wrote back telling them he wanted to meet
The King wrote back and denied the colonists what they wanted
The British ignored the colonial grievances
The British lost the paper but pretended they read it
American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed war for Independence.
Minutemen
Patriots
Loyalists
Tories
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.
Boycott
Repeal
Propaganda
Preamble
How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party?
Required colonists to clean up the mess
closed the harbor and cut off supplies
banned the Sons of Liberty from protesting
Instigated the Boston Massacre
What was the role of the Committee of Correspondence?
British representatives who kept the King informed about the colonists' actions
Kept other colonies informed about colonial actions and protest and gained support for the Revolution.
It was the newspaper publisher in the colonies
Kept track of trade between the colonies and other countries.
How did the colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre as propaganda?
They wrote articles explaining that the colonists started the confrontation.
They distributed pamphlets urging colonists to be nice to British troops.
They created images and engravings making it look as through the blood thirsty redcoats were out to kill innocent colonists.
They wrote letters persuading the King to get control of his soldiers.
Which of the following was NOT covered under the Coercive/Intolerable Acts of 1774?
Tax on paper goods
British troops ordered to live among the colonists
Ban on town meetings
Close harbor until all tea is paid for from the Boston Tea Party
These groups led the rebellion against the British in the colonies.
Loyalists
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Tories
Quakers
Which vocabulary term refers to the fact that the British king and Parliament had allowed the colonists to govern and manage their colonies until the end of the French and Indian War?
Repeal
Salutary Neglect
Taxation with Representation
Writs of Assistance
Which 1765 law placed a direct tax on newspaper, playing cards, shipping papers and other legal documents by requiring stamps on these printed materials?
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Paper Act
Tea Act
