WorksheetsRoad to Revolution (Coach Reeves U.S. History)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The biggest problem facing Great Britain after the French + Indian War was
French refusal to participate in negotiations
Conflict with the Iroquois in New York
Massive debt brought on by war costs
Colonists who refused to comply with new laws
This Law said that English colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
The Stamp Act
The Tea Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Great Migration
What group formed in Boston in 1765 to protest British taxes and laws? (The guys who planed the Boston Tea Party)
Sons of Liberty
Knights of Templar
Freemasons
Boys of Boston
What does Quartering mean?
To allow troops to stay in your home
Hitting someone with a quarter
To give someone a quarter
Giving a quarter of your earnings to Britain
The Quartering Act required _________?
Colonists to be Catholic
Colonists to house and feed soldiers
You to have a stamp on all paper goods
This British tax focused on items like Molasses, which the colonies tried to smuggle from the Dutch
Tea Act
Townshend Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Known as Tories, these people supported the idea of the American colonies remaining loyal and under British rule
Patriots
Loyalists
Minutemen
Continental Congress
Known as Whigs, these people supported the American Colonies being independent of British rule
Patriots
Loyalists
Minutemen
Continental Congress
reaffirms Parliament’s right to pass laws for the colonies w/out colonial approval
Townshend Acts
Proclamation Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
organization dedicated to boycotting certain British goods and promoted protests against British rule. Founded by Samuel Adams
Continental Congress
minutemen
Sons of Liberty
Loyalists
The Tea Act of 1773 was designed to not only to help pay off the war debt from the French and Indian War but to bail out ______ because the British government was dependent on them.
American Colonists
East India Company
the Indian tribes west of the Appalachian Mtns.
French King Louis VI
he ______ in 1770 was essentially a riot at a customs house, where members of the Sons of Liberty assaulted a British soldier, and a British squad of soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing five of them.
Boston Riots
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Townsend Acts
The ______ gave British custom’s officials unlimited authority to search and seize colonial merchant business, ship or warehouse for contraband in violation of the Navigation Acts.
Townsend Acts
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Proclamation of 1763
Which one of the following was NOT one of the punishment measures of the Intolerable Acts / Coercive Acts on Boston in 1774?
forced occupation of Boston
closed down Boston Harbor
removal of all British troops from Boston
no allowance of any public meetings
The ______ was the first direct tax placed on the colonies specifically on all paper items sold in the colonies and any / all notarized legal documents, like sales receipts of merchant goods.
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townsend Acts
The British Parliament, led by Lord North, viewed the American colonists as ______.
traitors, every single one of them
foreign people
second class citizens
first class citizens
Which one of the following was the primary action of the 1st Continental Congress in 1774?
sent the Olive Branch Petition to the King
appointed George Washington as General
protested Indians attacking the colonies
protested harsh British Parliament acts/taxes
Which of the following best describes “arbitrary taxation” by the British government to the American colonies during the 1770s?
taxation with representation
protection from Writs of Assistance
taxation without representation
random searches and seizures
The ______ of 1765 was a requirement of American colonials to house British soldiers in their homes which helped England keep an “eye” on the colonists’ moods and loyalties.
Townsend Acts
Coercive Acts
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was designed to not only to help pay off the war debt from the French and Indian War but to bail out ______ because the British government was dependent on them.
the Dutch India Company
the French king, Louis XIV
the Indian tribes west of the Appalachian Mtns.
the American colonists
