Worksheets1.5 Road to Independence
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 14mins
The ___________________________ Act was a tax on finished goods like glass, lead, and paint.
Townshend Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Glass Act
Which act placed a tax on almost all printed materials such as mail?
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Delcaratory Acts
The Intolerable/Coercive Acts were a series of laws that did what?
Closed Boston Harbor leaving the colonists for dead.
Forced the colonies to let British soldiers live in their houses
When the Colonists drank all the tea.
a pamphlet that convinced Americans to leave England.
What was the name of the conflict that caused the British to be in debt and to start taxing the Colonies..
The Taxation War
The Civil War
The Colonial War
The French and Indian War
The French and English War
This Act was a Tax on all paper goods such as mail, and stamps.
Townshend Act
The Mail Act
the Quartering Act
The Stamp Act
This Act forced the colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
Townshend Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Soldier Act
Quartering Act
The Townshend Acts put even more taxes on what items?
Coffee,food, clothes
Tea, shoes, hats
Sugar, coffee, glass
Paint, lead, glass
A famous saying from the colonists was " No _____________ without ______________ in Parliament"
Laws, Discussion
Jail, Trials
Taxation, Representation
Quartering, Meetings
This extremely popular pamphlet titled _____________________ pushed the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain.
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
What event was a direct result of the colonist frustration with the Tea Act?
Boston Massacre
Gaspee Affair
The Olive Branch Petition
The Boston Tea Party
How many colonists died in the Boston Massacre?
1
2
5
10
This was the phrase on The flag flown by those who supported declaring independence.
No Taxation Without Representation
"Don't Tread on Me"
BLM
Join or Die
What did the Quartering Act say?
British Soldiers could search your house without a cause to
Colonists had to pay a tax on thier houses
Colonists had to allow British Soldiers to stay in their homes
British Soldiers could seize any house they wanted
this act placed a tax on lead, paint, and glass
sugar act
Townshend acts
stamp act
tea act
a law requiring colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents, paper, and mail.
protest when 150 Colonists boarded 3 British ships in Boston to dump 342 chests of tea overboard.
Why were the colonists upset they about the new acts and taxes?
They wanted to pay money to the British as a surpise.
