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Events that Lead to the American Revolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

John Locke's idea of Natural Rights included which of the following?

a)

Right of Liberty

b)

Right to Life

c)

Right to pursue Happiness

d)

Right to Property

e)

Right to Vote for Representatives

2.

The colonies grew to feel entitled to their right to govern and manage their own affairs because Britian had a policy of what for over 150 years?

a)

Progressivism

b)

Tyranny

c)

Salutary Neglect

d)

Social Contract Theory

3.

What was the Enlightenment idea that said that the purpose of government was to protect the rights of the people?

a)

Natural Rights

b)

Social Contract Theory

c)

Representation

d)

Democracy

4.

What was the religious movement that challenged authority during the 1730s-1740s called?

a)

Natural Rights

b)

Enlighenment

c)

Great Awakening

d)

The Revival

5.

What is the name of the movement that prioritized science over faith and brought new ideas about personal freedom and government?

a)

Great Awakening

b)

Representation

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Enlightenment

6.

Great Britian's use of force and taxation over the colonies is a form of:

a)

Tyranny

b)

Republicanism

c)

Social Contract Theory

d)

Royal Rule

7.

Closing the port of Boston; Removing the elected representatives of Massachusetts; Sending British soldiers accused of crimes back to England for trial were all part of which Act?

a)

The Townsend Acts

b)

The Stamp Act

c)

The Intolerable Acts

d)

The Sugar Act

8.

The protests and boycotts by the colonists eventually lead Britian to repeal all taxes except:

a)

Quartering Act

b)

Tea Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

9.

The colonists were forced to house and feed British soldiers with the passing of which act?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townsend Acts

c)

Quartering Act

d)

Tea Act

10.

George Washington was established as the Commander of the Continental Army during the:

a)

Albany Plan

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Continental Congress

d)

French and Indian War

11.

This forbid the colonist to move West of the Appalachian Mountians:

a)

Albany Plan of Union

b)

Proclamation of 1763

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Townsend Acts

12.

Benjamin Franklin proposed to unite all of the colonies and created the "Join or Die" image when the colonies refused. This was called the:

a)

Continental Congress

b)

Townsend Acts

c)

Albany Plan of Union

d)

Boston Tea Party

13.

The lawyer who represented the accused soldiers after the Boston Massacre was?

a)

George Washington

b)

Samuel Adams

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

John Adams

14.

Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the colonies, this lead the Sons of Liberty to lead a protest called the:

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Tea Protest

c)

Battle of Lexington

d)

Boston Tea Party

15.

The Continental Congress took place in which city?

a)

Philladelphia

b)

Boston

c)

New York

d)

Concord