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WorksheetsCauses Of The American Revolution
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Why did the colonists rebel against England
Because England was stealing from them
Because of the rights that England put on the Colonists
Because they wanted to be a free country
Because of the Revolutionary War
What was the main goals of the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, & Navigation Acts
Taxes on any document with a stamp
Taxes on Sugar, for example Molasses
Colonies could only trade with England
Signing the Declaration Of Independence
What is Mercantilism
Colonists exist for the good of the mother country
British soldiers had the right to search Colonists homes
The cause of the Revolutionary War
Colonists could only trade with England.
What was the main purpose of the Declaration Of Independence
To show that the Colonists are separated from England, and are now their own country
To show that Colonists could only trade with England
To show that the Colonists had to stay with England
To show that the Colonists can’t be taxed anymore
What are unalienable rights?
Rights that everybody has
Rights that one person has
Rights that show that you’re not supposed to be in America
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness
Where does the government’s power come from according to the Declaration Of Independence
The people it governs
The leaders
Winning Land & War
Teaming Up with other powerful leaders.
What do the people have the right to do if the government abuses their power.
The people have the right to alter or abolish it
Nothing
Kill The Leaders
Rebel against their government
What was Thomas Paine’s message in Common Sense
We shouldn’t stay with England
We should stay with England
We should team up with the Germans
We should team up with the Indians
Who were the Patriots and the Loyalists
People who stayed loyal to the British
Colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution
People who teamed with the Indians
People who worked at a church
What is the Proclamation of 1763
Colonists could not move west into the Ohio River, past the Appalachian Mountains
Colonists could only team up with England
Colonists could only trade with England
Colonists could only team up with the Indians
What were the Townshend Acts
Taxes on sugar
Taxes on Molasses
Taxes on Tea
Taxes on Tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint products
What was the Quartering Act
Colonists had to pay for the housing of British soldiers, and British soldiers could check if Colonists were smuggling goods
British Soldiers fired on Colonists who were protesting
Taxes on Tea
Taxes on Molasses
What was the Boston Tea Party
An event where Colonists fired at British Soldiers
An event where Colonists poured tea into the Boston Harbor
An event where King George was killed
An event where the Colonists split away from England
What were the Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Acts that punished the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Taxes on anything with a stamp
Taxes on Tea
Taxes on household items.
What was the “Shot Heard Round The World”
The first shot of the revolutionary war
A gunshot that killed the king
A gunshot that killed slaves
A gunshot that killed protesting colonists
What was the Boston Massacre and how did the Colonists use this event as propaganda
A event that killed 5 colonists, by calling it a massacre, and pretending that it was worse than it was.
An event to kill the British, and to show that they were evil
An event to kill slaves, and show the British, and to show that the King should be killed
An event to kill the king, and to show that the king was keeping their taxes for himself
What is Tarring & Feathering
Targeted Tax Collectors, poured hot tar on them and put feathers on them to humiliate them
British used this to humiliate the colonists
Colonists used this to humiliate the British
Colonists did this because they were trying to scare the British
Who called out, “The British are coming, The British are coming”?
Paul Revere
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
What was the saying that Colonists used when the British imposed taxes on them without their consent
No Taxation Without Representation
The King’s Laws are not good for the colonies
Why should we stay with England if all they do it tax us
We are now a separate country and are not ruled by England anymore
What we’re the Navigation Acts?
Colonists could only trade with England
Colonists couldn’t move west past the Appalachian Mountains
Colonists had to pay for the housing of British Soldiers
Taxes on anything with a stamp
