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WorksheetsRoad to Revolution Live Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
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 act lowered the tax on molasses, hoping the colonists would pay the tax rather than smuggling in goods?
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Quartering Act
What document officially ended the French & Indian War?
Treaty of Ghent, 1814
Magna Carta, 1215
Declaration of Independence, 1776
Treaty of Paris, 1763
Which action by the colonists could be categorized as an act of civil disobedience?
Colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor
Placing restrictions on trade with Spain and France
Paying the stamp tax to British tax collectors
Firing guns at British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
Colonists were especially upset with the British government because it did not allow the
colonial business to support royal taxes
colonists to have representation in Parliament
powers of colonial legislatures to increase
laws passed by parliament to govern the colonies
