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Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 2hrs 30mins
What was the primary reason Parliament passed these acts?
To fund the establishment of new colonies
To encourage foreign trade with the colonies
To recover the cost of defending the colonies
To promote the growth of cottage industries in the colonies.
Which statements best explains why this resolution was adopted?
Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III
Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre.
Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament.
Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party
What was the name of the group that met to discuss what the colonists should do about unfair laws like the Intolerable Acts?
The First Continental Congress
The House of Burgesses
The Sons of Liberty
The Boston Tea Party
How did the colonists resist British laws an taxes?
Boycotts
Protests
Tarring and feathering tax collectors
All of the above
some items like glass, tea, paper, and lead were ______ to send the message of disapproval to the British Parliament
boycotted
tariff
Townshend Acts
customs
The French and Indian war was fought between _____ and _____.
England and the Colonies
England and France
England and the Native Americans
England and Spain
What did the colonists call the laws that were passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Massacre
The Intolerable Acts
The Stamp Act
The Quartering Act
.The 1765 act that taxed all paper and printed goods in the colonies was called the ____________.
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Why were the colonists upset about the taxes?
the colonists were not upset; they agreed to the taxes
because the taxes were only for the rich people
because they had no representatives in Parliament
because the taxes came from France
What territory were the British and French fighting over during the French and Indian War?
Texas
Ohio Valley
New Jersey
Virginia
A grievance is a
Compliment
Suggestion
Complaint
Tax
Finish the phrase: NO TAXATION WITHOUT -
REPRESENTATION
LEGISLATION
HESITATION
MEDITATION
After the Boston Tea Party…British troops were forced to live with colonists. This phrase is called
Protest
Grievance
Quartering
Civil Disobedience
What Civil Disobedient event occurred after Parliament passed the Tea Act?
Colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence
Colonists tarred and feathered Loyalists
Colonists organized the Boston Tea Party
Colonists created an alliance with France
What does representation mean?
A person or group acting on behalf of King George III
A person/group acting on behalf of themselves
A person or group acting on behalf of another person/group
Who was the first colonists to be killed during the Boston Massacre?
Sam Adams
Crispus Attucks
Paul Revere
Colonists were used to having this type of government that was influenced by the Mayflower compact and Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut?
Communism
Self-Government
Monarchy
Who benefited from Mercantilism
Mexico
13 Colonies
England/ Mother Country
What is the name of the line that prevented colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Mason Dixon Line
Proclamation Line of 1763
Finish Line of 1781
* Harbor closed
* Governor had to approve meetings
The above are punishments on Boston because of what event?
Which Act required colonist to house British soldiers?
Stamp Act
Quartering Acts
Townshend Acts
Sugar Act
Define Repeal:
To take back or cancel
to refuse to buy
to deny property rights
made the Appalachian Mountains the border of the colonies
The revenue from the Townshend Acts would go to pay the salaries of _______ that the colonists were already providing housing and supplies for.
governors
tax collectors
troops
