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WorksheetsAmerican Revolution Causes Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is significant about the year of 1620?
Hernan Cortez sets off for his great exploration.
The Mayflower Compact was created for the purpose of self government.
The colony of Jamestown is founded
The Virginia House of Burgesses assembles for the first time.
What is the significance of the year 1607?
The first permanent colony of Jamestown is established.
The Mayflower compact is created for the purpose of self government.
The British go to war with France.
The Boston Tea Party.
What is the economic theory of Mercantilism?
That a state or nation's power is dependent on it's wealth. (Gold & Land).
Countries are free to buy goods from whatever country they want.
Government does not control but regulates trade.
America's trade with other countries is restricted.
This system moved slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods across European, West African, and colonial ports.
The European exchange.
Triangular/Transatlantic Slave Trade.
America's Trade route.
Mutual trade system
Why were the colonists growing angry with the Britain after the French & Indian War? (Check all that apply)
The English government began taxing the colonists to pay for the war without their representation in Parliament.
The Proclamation line of 1763 prevented them from settling in the new British territories past the Appalachian mountains.
The Mother country of England abandoned the colonies.
Unreasonable taxes such as the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
An act of civil disobedience, colonists storm the British tea ships and dump tons of it into the Boston Harbor.
A small skirmish in the Boston Square where 5 people were killed.
A celebration to the end of the French & Indian War.
Ended the American Revolution.
A series of severe laws designed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Townsend Acts
The Stamp Act
Quartering Act
The Intolerable Acts.
In the 1770s, England made the American colonies pay many taxes. Some of these taxes were the sugar act, stamp act, and the tea act. What did the colonists do because of these taxes?
The colonists started taxing British goods.
The colonists decided to trade only with France.
The colonists voted for a new king.
The colonists boycotted the taxes and held many protests.
During the years before the American Revolution, some colonists formed a group that wanted independence. This group was called the __________.
Grange.
Sons of Liberty.
Green Mountain Boys.
Regulators.
What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Sugar Act
Navigation Act
What is the meaning of "No taxation without representation"?
Getting taxed for goods without having a say in parliament is unacceptable.
When people are taxed multiple times for the same item.
When some people get taxed and others do not.
When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is.
What was stated in the Proclamation of 1763?
Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Colonists were encouraged to begin settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation ended the French and Indian War.
The Proclamation proclaimed independence for the American colonists.
Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp and Sugar Acts?
“The rights of Englishmen”
“Give me liberty or give me death”
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
“No taxation without representation“
What law that forced colonists to provide places to live for all the Redcoats in America?
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Sugar Act
Navigation Act
confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Boston Freedom Parade
Boston Marathon
