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Causes Of The American Revolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the colonists rebel against England

a)

Because England was stealing from them

b)

Because of the rights that England put on the Colonists

c)

Because they wanted to be a free country

d)

Because of the Revolutionary War

2.

What was the main goals of the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, & Navigation Acts

a)

Taxes on any document with a stamp

b)

Taxes on Sugar, for example Molasses

c)

Colonies could only trade with England

d)

Signing the Declaration Of Independence

3.

What is Mercantilism

a)

Colonists exist for the good of the mother country

b)

British soldiers had the right to search Colonists homes

c)

The cause of the Revolutionary War

d)

Colonists could only trade with England.

4.

What was the main purpose of the Declaration Of Independence

a)

To show that the Colonists are separated from England, and are now their own country

b)

To show that Colonists could only trade with England

c)

To show that the Colonists had to stay with England

d)

To show that the Colonists can’t be taxed anymore

5.

What are unalienable rights?

a)

Rights that everybody has

b)

Rights that one person has

c)

Rights that show that you’re not supposed to be in America

d)

Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness

6.

Where does the government’s power come from according to the Declaration Of Independence

a)

The people it governs

b)

The leaders

c)

Winning Land & War

d)

Teaming Up with other powerful leaders.

7.

What do the people have the right to do if the government abuses their power.

a)

The people have the right to alter or abolish it

b)

Nothing

c)

Kill The Leaders

d)

Rebel against their government

8.

What was Thomas Paine’s message in Common Sense

a)

We shouldn’t stay with England

b)

We should stay with England

c)

We should team up with the Germans

d)

We should team up with the Indians

9.

Who were the Patriots and the Loyalists

a)

People who stayed loyal to the British

b)

Colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution

c)

People who teamed with the Indians

d)

People who worked at a church

10.

What is the Proclamation of 1763

a)

Colonists could not move west into the Ohio River, past the Appalachian Mountains

b)

Colonists could only team up with England

c)

Colonists could only trade with England

d)

Colonists could only team up with the Indians

11.

What were the Townshend Acts

a)

Taxes on sugar

b)

Taxes on Molasses

c)

Taxes on Tea

d)

Taxes on Tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint products

12.

What was the Quartering Act

a)

Colonists had to pay for the housing of British soldiers, and British soldiers could check if Colonists were smuggling goods

b)

British Soldiers fired on Colonists who were protesting

c)

Taxes on Tea

d)

Taxes on Molasses

13.

What was the Boston Tea Party

a)

An event where Colonists fired at British Soldiers

b)

An event where Colonists poured tea into the Boston Harbor

c)

An event where King George was killed

d)

An event where the Colonists split away from England

14.

What were the Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts

a)

Acts that punished the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party

b)

Taxes on anything with a stamp

c)

Taxes on Tea

d)

Taxes on household items.

15.

What was the “Shot Heard Round The World”

a)

The first shot of the revolutionary war

b)

A gunshot that killed the king

c)

A gunshot that killed slaves

d)

A gunshot that killed protesting colonists

16.

What was the Boston Massacre and how did the Colonists use this event as propaganda

a)

A event that killed 5 colonists, by calling it a massacre, and pretending that it was worse than it was.

b)

An event to kill the British, and to show that they were evil

c)

An event to kill slaves, and show the British, and to show that the King should be killed

d)

An event to kill the king, and to show that the king was keeping their taxes for himself

17.

What is Tarring & Feathering

a)

Targeted Tax Collectors, poured hot tar on them and put feathers on them to humiliate them

b)

British used this to humiliate the colonists

c)

Colonists used this to humiliate the British

d)

Colonists did this because they were trying to scare the British

18.

Who called out, “The British are coming, The British are coming”?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

George Washington

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

John Adams

19.

What was the saying that Colonists used when the British imposed taxes on them without their consent

a)

No Taxation Without Representation

b)

The King’s Laws are not good for the colonies

c)

Why should we stay with England if all they do it tax us

d)

We are now a separate country and are not ruled by England anymore

20.

What we’re the Navigation Acts?

a)

Colonists could only trade with England

b)

Colonists couldn’t move west past the Appalachian Mountains

c)

Colonists had to pay for the housing of British Soldiers

d)

Taxes on anything with a stamp