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Road to Revolution

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This act required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

2.

This act LOWERED the tax on molasses to stop smuggling so that the British would get more revenue (money).

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

3.

This act tried to control the economies in the colonies. It declared that only British currency could be used in the colonies.

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

4.

This act required colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers.

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

5.

This act increased taxes on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint--all goods the colonists were required to purchase from Britain.

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

6.

Who began making their own yarn and materials to protest the Townshend Acts?

a)

Daughters of liberty

b)

Sons of Liberty

c)

Patriots

d)

Loyalists

7.

What is the definition of duty?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

cancelled

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

8.

What is the definition of grievance?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

cancelled

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

9.

What is the definition of repealed?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

cancelled

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

10.

What is the definition of boycott?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

cancelled

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

11.

What is the definition of militia?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

Groups of local people who organize to protect their town, colony, or country

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

12.

What is the definition of tyranny?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

Groups of local people who organize to protect their town, colony, or country

d)

Unjust rule by an absolute ruler

13.

An event in Boston in 1770 when British soldiers started firing on the colonists. Five people were killed and six were injured.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Committee of Correspondence

14.

A group that made a list of British offenses against the colonies’ rights and published it in Massachusetts.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Committee of Correspondence

15.

Event on December 16, 1773 when the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded three ships loaded with tea in Boston Harbor. They dumped the tea overboard to protest the Tea Act.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Committee of Correspondence

16.

A series of laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonies. They are also known as the Coercive Acts.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Committee of Correspondence

17.

A meeting of the colonies that took place in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. Every colony except Georgia sent delegates. The purpose was to discuss ways to have the Intolerable Acts repealed.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

First Continental Congress

18.

People who supported the right for the colonies to rule themselves. They were seeking independence.

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriot

c)

Second Continental Congress

d)

Unalienable right

19.

People who supported Britain and were loyal to them.

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriot

c)

Second Continental Congress

d)

Unalienable right

20.

A meeting of the colonies that took place in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775. The purpose was to prepare for war. They appointed George Washington as the commander in chief of the army.

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriot

c)

Second Continental Congress

d)

Unalienable right

21.

A right that cannot be taken away.

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriot

c)

Second Continental Congress

d)

Unalienable right

22.

July 2, 1776 approved by the Continental Congress. It was an official statement declaring the colonies independence from Britain.

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriot

c)

Second Continental Congress

d)

Declaration of Independence

23.

What is the definition of minutemen?

a)

tax

b)

objection

c)

a group of handpicked specially trained militia members ready to respond and fight at “a minute’s warning”.

d)

form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services

24.

A law issued by the king that required the colonists to stay east of the line drawn along the top of the Appalachian Mountains.

a)

Proclamation of 1763

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Townshend Acts

e)

Currency Act

25.

Who was the Commander in Chief for the Continental Army?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Ben Franklin

d)

Thomas Jefferson

26.

Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense urging the colonists to seek independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Ben Franklin

d)

Thomas Jefferson

27.

Who wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Ben Franklin

d)

Thomas Jefferson