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Lesson 10: Tensions Grow between the Colonies and Great Britain

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an act?

a)

An activity.

b)

A law.

c)

A fun game.

d)

A letter.

2.

What is a boycott?

a)

To agree by refusing to use or buy a good or service.

b)

To protest by refusing to use or buy a good or service.

c)

To protest by continuing to use a good or service.

3.

What is a delegate?

a)

A person who represents others at a convention or conference.

b)

A good deed.

c)

An impressive person.

d)

A person that represents a job.

4.

Who was the First Continental Congress?

a)

The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies to talk about Great Britain, and to set up a boycott of goods.

b)

The meeting of delegates from all 13 colonies to discuss food.

c)

The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies to discuss the soldiers.

5.

What is an import?

a)

A good brought into the country by another country.

b)

A good given to another country from our country.

6.

What happened at the Boston Massacre?

a)

It was a planned fight during the war.

b)

It killed over 1,000 people.

c)

It wasn't real and only a rumor.

d)

It was an accidental fight where 5 colonists died.

7.

What is Parliament?

a)

The King of Great Britain

b)

The President of Great Britain

c)

The lawmaking part of the British government

d)

The lawmaking part of the colonies government

8.

What does it mean "to protest?"

a)

An action that shows approval to something

b)

An action that shows disapproval or an objection to something

c)

Rosa Parks saying no

d)

Buying property, like a house

9.

What does "repeal" mean?

a)

To rewrite a law

b)

To start a law

c)

To cancel a law

d)

To shout a law

10.

What is "taxation without representation"?

a)

The colonists didn't like tea

b)

The British didn't like giving taxes

c)

The soldiers could live in colonists houses free of charge

d)

The colonists were being taxed without having representatives in the British Parliament

11.

Who fought in the French and Indian War?

a)

France and Native Americans

b)

France and Great Britain

c)

France and the Colonies

d)

The Colonies and Native Americans

12.

What were they fighting for in the French and Indian War?

a)

Rivers

b)

Tea

c)

The Ohio River Valley

d)

Native Americans

13.

Who won the French and Indian War?

a)

The British

b)

The French

c)

Spain

d)

Native Americans

14.

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

It said that the Colonists were separated from the British.

b)

That Colonists could travel to France.

c)

This declared that American Indians could have much of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

d)

That Colonists could now move to California.

15.

What did the Quartering Act say colonists had to do?

a)

Stop using quarters.

b)

Ordered colonists to let soldiers live in their houses free of charge.

c)

Ordered colonists to feed soldiers.

d)

Ordered colonists to provide places for soldiers to live free of charge, give them food, fuel and transportation.

16.

How did the colonists react to the Quartering Act?

a)

They were mad.

b)

They thought it was alright.

c)

They agreed it was necessary.

d)

They liked having the soldiers help with chores.

17.

Great Britain passed the Stamp Act because they were in debt from the war and needed money. What was the Stamp Act?

a)

Colonists needed to pay extra money on food.

b)

Colonists needed to pay extra money on printed papers.

c)

Colonists needed to pay extra money on tea.

d)

Colonists needed to pay extra money on clothes.

18.

Why were the colonists angry about the Stamp Act?

a)

They had no say in making the law.

b)

They thought the law was unfair.

c)

They did not want to give their money to the British.

d)

All of the above.

19.

What was the relationship between the Colonists and the British Soldiers like?

a)

They were friends and often hung out together.

b)

They ignored each other most of the time.

c)

Neither of them liked each other, and would try to make each other's lives more difficult.

d)

They killed each other.

20.

What happened at the Boston Massacre?

a)

A British soldier shot into a rowdy crowd of colonists, killing 5 people.

b)

The colonists killed 5 soldiers for no reason.

c)

No one was hurt but they called it a massacre because it could have been much worse.

21.

The colonists were so mad about the tax on tea, that they had the Boston Tea Party. What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and drank tea and ate pies.

b)

Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and stole a bunch of tea.

c)

Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped the tea into the water.

d)

Colonists dressed up as British soldiers and dumped tea into the water.

22.

Why did the British Parliament pass the Intolerable Acts?

a)

They wanted to coerce, or force, the colonies to obey.

b)

They wanted to make life horrible for the colonists.

c)

They wanted to make them pay more money.

d)

They didn't want to give colonists medicine or other supplies.

23.

The Coercive Acts were implemented by British Parliament, but the colonists nicknamed them what?

a)

The Intolerable Acts

b)

The Brutal Acts

c)

The Acts of Misery

d)

The Proclamation of 1763

24.

The First Continental Congress was what?

a)

The Native Americans and Colonists forming a goverment.

b)

All of the colonists who would protest the acts of Great Britain.

c)

The meeting of delegates from 13 colonies, to talk about why they hate Great Britain.

d)

The meeting of delegates from 12 colonies, to present complaints to King George III and help the colonists boycott.