WorksheetsRoad to Revolution
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
This act required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
This act LOWERED the tax on molasses to stop smuggling so that the British would get more revenue (money).
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
This act tried to control the economies in the colonies. It declared that only British currency could be used in the colonies.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
This act required colonists to purchase a stamp for official documents and published papers.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
This act increased taxes on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint--all goods the colonists were required to purchase from Britain.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
Who began making their own yarn and materials to protest the Townshend Acts?
Daughters of liberty
Sons of Liberty
Patriots
Loyalists
What is the definition of duty?
tax
objection
cancelled
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
What is the definition of grievance?
tax
objection
cancelled
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
What is the definition of repealed?
tax
objection
cancelled
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
What is the definition of boycott?
tax
objection
cancelled
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
What is the definition of militia?
tax
objection
Groups of local people who organize to protect their town, colony, or country
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
What is the definition of tyranny?
tax
objection
Groups of local people who organize to protect their town, colony, or country
Unjust rule by an absolute ruler
An event in Boston in 1770 when British soldiers started firing on the colonists. Five people were killed and six were injured.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Committee of Correspondence
A group that made a list of British offenses against the colonies’ rights and published it in Massachusetts.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Committee of Correspondence
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.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Committee of Correspondence
A series of laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonies. They are also known as the Coercive Acts.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Committee of Correspondence
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.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
People who supported the right for the colonies to rule themselves. They were seeking independence.
Loyalist
Patriot
Second Continental Congress
Unalienable right
People who supported Britain and were loyal to them.
Loyalist
Patriot
Second Continental Congress
Unalienable right
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.
Loyalist
Patriot
Second Continental Congress
Unalienable right
A right that cannot be taken away.
Loyalist
Patriot
Second Continental Congress
Unalienable right
July 2, 1776 approved by the Continental Congress. It was an official statement declaring the colonies independence from Britain.
Loyalist
Patriot
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
What is the definition of minutemen?
tax
objection
a group of handpicked specially trained militia members ready to respond and fight at “a minute’s warning”.
form of protest that involves refusing to purchase goods or services
A law issued by the king that required the colonists to stay east of the line drawn along the top of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Currency Act
Who was the Commander in Chief for the Continental Army?
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense urging the colonists to seek independence?
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
