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Road to the Revolution

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What taxed the colonists on all printed material, including newspapers and playing cards?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Boston Massacre

2.

What did Britain pass to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party?  

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

The Intolerable Acts

d)

Sugar Act

3.

This act forced colonists to pay taxes on all imported goods including paint, paper, lead, glass, wool and tea.

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Townshend Acts

4.

This refers to the protest of the Tea Act.  The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea in the Boston Harbor.

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

repeal

d)

boycott

5.

Money owed is _____________.

a)

debt

b)

effigy

c)

tariff

d)

protest

6.

a tax on goods

a)

debt

b)

tariff

c)

boycott

d)

protest

7.

What is a formal meeting of delegates for discussion and action (made laws)?

a)

a club

b)

Boy Scout Meeting

c)

congress

d)

Sons of Liberty

8.

What is a formal agreement between two countries?

a)

treaty

b)

a pact

c)

tariff

d)

a war

9.

This was the order by King George III of England that blocked colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

a)

tariff

b)

Treaty of Paris of 1763

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Intolerable Acts

10.

What is military rule?

a)

militia

b)

martial law

c)

boycott

d)

quarter

11.

American colonists who strongly opposed British rule were _______.

a)

neutral

b)

Patriots

c)

Loyalists

12.

An American colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain were _________.

a)

neutral

b)

Patriots

c)

Loyalists

13.

Colonists who did not take sides were __________.

a)

neutral

b)

Loyalists

c)

Patriots

14.

What taxed the colonists on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Quartering Act