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WorksheetsEvents that Lead to the American Revolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
John Locke's idea of Natural Rights included which of the following?
Right of Liberty
Right to Life
Right to pursue Happiness
Right to Property
Right to Vote for Representatives
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?
Progressivism
Tyranny
Salutary Neglect
Social Contract Theory
What was the Enlightenment idea that said that the purpose of government was to protect the rights of the people?
Natural Rights
Social Contract Theory
Representation
Democracy
What was the religious movement that challenged authority during the 1730s-1740s called?
Natural Rights
Enlighenment
Great Awakening
The Revival
What is the name of the movement that prioritized science over faith and brought new ideas about personal freedom and government?
Great Awakening
Representation
Natural Rights
Enlightenment
Great Britian's use of force and taxation over the colonies is a form of:
Tyranny
Republicanism
Social Contract Theory
Royal Rule
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?
The Townsend Acts
The Stamp Act
The Intolerable Acts
The Sugar Act
The protests and boycotts by the colonists eventually lead Britian to repeal all taxes except:
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
The colonists were forced to house and feed British soldiers with the passing of which act?
Stamp Act
Townsend Acts
Quartering Act
Tea Act
George Washington was established as the Commander of the Continental Army during the:
Albany Plan
Boston Massacre
Continental Congress
French and Indian War
This forbid the colonist to move West of the Appalachian Mountians:
Albany Plan of Union
Proclamation of 1763
Intolerable Acts
Townsend Acts
Benjamin Franklin proposed to unite all of the colonies and created the "Join or Die" image when the colonies refused. This was called the:
Continental Congress
Townsend Acts
Albany Plan of Union
Boston Tea Party
The lawyer who represented the accused soldiers after the Boston Massacre was?
George Washington
Samuel Adams
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
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:
Boston Massacre
Tea Protest
Battle of Lexington
Boston Tea Party
The Continental Congress took place in which city?
Philladelphia
Boston
New York
Concord
