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Events Leading to the American Revolution

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name

Class

Date

Who were the Sons of Liberty and what was their role in pre-Revolutionary War events?

A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act

British troops that protect the King

Colonists troops that fought in the French and Indian War.

Why did King George III tax the colonists so heavily?

He hated the colonist

He wanted more money for himself

The national debt increase from the French and Indian War

To make money for the colonies

what countries fought in the French and Indian War?

France and Spain

Great Britain and Russia

France and Great Britain

After colonist threw rocks, sticks and snowballs at British forces, this event happened leading to tense relations between the British military and colonists.

firing on Lexington and Concord

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacre

Battle at Bunker Hill

Refusing to buy a product or service

Cede

Blockade

Boycott

The British government put a tax on something the colonists drank. What was it?

coffee

milk

tea

water

What did the sons of Liberty do to protest the tax on their favorite drink?

nothing

they boarded ships and threw the tea into the water

they paid the tax

they wrote a newspaper article about the unfair tax

Why did many colonists oppose Great Britain, or want to break away?

They felt Great Britain did not have the right to tax them and impose laws without their representation.

Great Britain stole their land.

Some of the colonists just liked to fight.

War fought between French and British over land

French and Indian War

World War 1

American Revolution

Civil War

10.

During the ______________________, the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Tea Act

Sugar Act

11.

Who rode to Lexington warning colonists “The British are coming!” after overhearing British soldiers discussing their plans?

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

Paul Revere

Charles Cornwallis

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Events Leading to the American Revolution

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 14mins

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