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Road to Revolution (Coach Reeves U.S. History)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The biggest problem facing Great Britain after the French + Indian War was

a)

French refusal to participate in negotiations

b)

Conflict with the Iroquois in New York

c)

Massive debt brought on by war costs

d)

Colonists who refused to comply with new laws

2.

This Law said that English colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

a)

The Stamp Act

b)

The Tea Act

c)

The Proclamation of 1763

d)

The Great Migration

3.

What group formed in Boston in 1765 to protest British taxes and laws? (The guys who planed the Boston Tea Party)

a)

Sons of Liberty

b)

Knights of Templar

c)

Freemasons

d)

Boys of Boston

4.

What does Quartering mean?

a)

To allow troops to stay in your home

b)

Hitting someone with a quarter

c)

To give someone a quarter

d)

Giving a quarter of your earnings to Britain

5.

The Quartering Act required _________?

a)

Colonists to be Catholic

b)

Colonists to house and feed soldiers

c)

You to have a stamp on all paper goods

6.

This British tax focused on items like Molasses, which the colonies tried to smuggle from the Dutch

a)

Tea Act

b)

Townshend Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Sugar Act

7.

Known as Tories, these people supported the idea of the American colonies remaining loyal and under British rule

a)

Patriots

b)

Loyalists

c)

Minutemen

d)

Continental Congress

8.

Known as Whigs, these people supported the American Colonies being independent of British rule

a)

Patriots

b)

Loyalists

c)

Minutemen

d)

Continental Congress

9.

reaffirms Parliament’s right to pass laws for the colonies w/out colonial approval

a)

Townshend Acts

b)

Proclamation Act

c)

Quartering Act

d)

Declaratory Act

10.

organization dedicated to boycotting certain British goods and promoted protests against British rule. Founded by Samuel Adams

a)

Continental Congress

b)

minutemen

c)

Sons of Liberty

d)

Loyalists

11.

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.

a)

American Colonists

b)

East India Company

c)

the Indian tribes west of the Appalachian Mtns.

d)

French King Louis VI

12.

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.

a)

Boston Riots

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

Townsend Acts

13.

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.

a)

Townsend Acts

b)

Tea Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Proclamation of 1763

14.

Which one of the following was NOT one of the punishment measures of the Intolerable Acts / Coercive Acts on Boston in 1774?

a)

forced occupation of Boston

b)

closed down Boston Harbor

c)

removal of all British troops from Boston

d)

no allowance of any public meetings

15.

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.

a)

Tea Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townsend Acts

16.

The British Parliament, led by Lord North, viewed the American colonists as ______.

a)

traitors, every single one of them

b)

foreign people

c)

second class citizens

d)

first class citizens

17.

Which one of the following was the primary action of the 1st Continental Congress in 1774?

a)

sent the Olive Branch Petition to the King

b)

appointed George Washington as General

c)

protested Indians attacking the colonies

d)

protested harsh British Parliament acts/taxes

18.

Which of the following best describes “arbitrary taxation” by the British government to the American colonies during the 1770s?

a)

taxation with representation

b)

protection from Writs of Assistance

c)

taxation without representation

d)

random searches and seizures

19.

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.

a)

Townsend Acts

b)

Coercive Acts

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Quartering Act

20.

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.

a)

the Dutch India Company

b)

the French king, Louis XIV

c)

the Indian tribes west of the Appalachian Mtns.

d)

the American colonists