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Road to Revolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Made King George III pass the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

England lost the French and Indian War

b)

Natives were attacking British colonists in the back country.

c)

King George III wanted to punish colonists for rebelling

d)

British colonists were killing innocent natives in the back country.

2.

Which event made more colonists want to fight for Independence from England?

a)

England boycotted colonial goods

b)

The creation of Fort Necessity

c)

The Battle of Quebec

d)

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

3.

British settlers competing with the French to control the Fur trade in the Ohio River Valley led to what?

a)

The French and Indian War

b)

The Boston Massacre

c)

The Revolutionary war

d)

The battles of Lexington and Concord.

4.

King George III sent 30,000 soldiers to the colonies after he rejected which document?

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Writ of Assistance

c)

The Treaty of Paris

d)

The Olive Branch Petition

5.

What was the turning point in the French and Indian War?

a)

King George III passes the intolerable acts

b)

The battle of Fort Necessity

c)

William Pitt being elected Prime Minister and the Battle of Quebec

d)

The Boston Massacre

6.

What made Parliament repeal the Stamp Act?

a)

The Sons of Liberty threatened tax collectors

b)

The Stamp Act Congress demanded fair treatment from England

c)

Boycotts of British goods cost English merchants lots of money

d)

The Olive Branch Petition

7.

What act drew colonists together for the first time to unite against a British tax?

a)

The Quartering Act

b)

The Intolerable Act

c)

The Stamp Act

d)

The Sugar Act

8.

At the second Continental Congress, delegates wrote the Olive Branch petition and created what?

a)

The Proclamation line of 1763

b)

The Committees of Correspondence

c)

Colonial MIltias

d)

A Continental Army

9.

What group united the colonists against the British by sharing information about them across the colonies?

a)

The Daughters of Liberty

b)

The Committees of Correspondence

c)

The Sons of Liberty

d)

The Minutemen

10.

What document did the colonists use to ask for peace and declare their loyalty to the King?

a)

The Proclamation of 1763

b)

The treaty of Paris

c)

The Writ of Assistance

d)

The Olive Branch Petition

11.

Why were the colonists so mad about the Tea act?

a)

It raised the price of tea

b)

It created a monopoly for one British company

c)

It eliminated all tea in the colonies

d)

It gave customs officers more opportunities to abuse their power

12.

King George III liked the Quartering Act because. . .

a)

He wanted redcoats to take colonist homes for England

b)

He hated quarters

c)

It gave the colonists freedom to live their best lives.

d)

It lowered the cost of keeping an army in the colonies.

13.

Why did Paul Revere create the "bloody Massacre" propaganda?

a)

To show that colonists should boycott British goods.

b)

To show that Colonists attacked innocent British soldiers

c)

To spread information of British actions in the colonies

d)

To show that British soldiers fired on innocent colonists

14.

What was the outcome of the battle of Lexington and Concord?

a)

Colonial Militias used guerrilla tactics to defeat British redcoats.

b)

British Redcoats killed hundreds of Colonial militia

c)

King George III presented the Proclamation of 1763

d)

George Washingto nwas forced to surrender his newly built fort.

15.

Through everything, what did the colonists feel England was denying them?

a)

The right to own slaves

b)

The right to settle in the West

c)

Fair trial in the colonies

d)

Representation in British Parliament

16.

What did the Daughters of Liberty do?

a)

The spread information about British actions in the colonies

b)

They formed militias in case war with England happened.

c)

The made American goods and urged people to buy them over British goods.

d)

They put together a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

17.

Who started the Sons of Liberty?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Samuel Adams

d)

John Adams

18.

King George III passed the Intolerable( Coercive) acts as punishment for what?

a)

The Boston Tea Party

b)

The Battle of Lexington and Concord

c)

The Boston Massacre

d)

The Stamp Act Congress

19.

When did the colonists call for All British acts to be repealed?

a)

After the Townsend acts were passed

b)

Stamp Act Congress

c)

1st Continental Congress

d)

2nd Continental Congress

20.

Which of the following is an example of colonial resistance to British taxes?

a)

The treaty of Paris

b)

Writs of Assistance

c)

Tar and feathering of Tax collectors

d)

Pontiac's war