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Events Leading Up to the American Revolution

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 1hrs 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who dressed up like Native Americans and raided ships?

a)

Daughters of Liberty

b)

Sons of Liberty

c)

King George

d)

Republicans

2.

What is a boycott?

a)

an enemy

b)

a tax King George created

c)

protest in which all the people only bought British products

d)

protest in which people refused to buy British products

3.

How many colonists died at the Boston Massacre?

a)

500

b)

100

c)

5

d)

None

4.

What name did the colonists give for the Coercive Acts?

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Tea Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

5.
What event does this drawing show?
a)
Tarring and feathering
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Boston Massacre
d)
American Revolution
6.
Where did the Boston Massacre occur? 
a)
Philadelphia
b)
New York City 
c)
Washington D.C.
d)
Boston
7.
The Stamp Act taxed _____________.
a)
tea
b)
newspapers
c)
sugar
d)
coffee
8.
Who did the colonists dress up as when they boarded the ships in protest
a)
British Redcoats
b)
Sailors
c)
Mohawk Indians
d)
Frenchmen
9.

What colony did the tea party occur?

a)

New York

b)

Maine

c)

Massachusetts

d)

USA

10.

Which historically happened first: the Boston Tea Party or the Boston Massacre?

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Both happened the same day: 1 in the morning and 1 that night..

11.
Why did Britain seek to tax the colonists in the 1760s?
a)
The colonists were wealthier than most British citizens.
b)
Britain needed money to pay for the French and Indian War.
c)
The British wanted to punish the colonists for rebelling against the Proclamation.
d)
Britain needed money to protect the colonists from the French.
12.
What was the main reason that the colonists were protesting?
a)
They didn`t like the type of tea that was shipped to them
b)
They wanted the ships to leave
c)
They thought the tea was priced too high
d)
They felt they were being taxed unfairly without being represented in the government
13.
A secret organization formed to protest the Stamp Act was called
a)
Congress
b)
Sons of Liberty
c)
Parliament
d)
Loyalists
14.

When the Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, this was called the

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Boston Tea Party

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Treaty of Paris

15.

The _______________ were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

a)

Navigation Acts

b)

Intolerable Acts

c)

Stamp Acts

d)

Final Acts

16.

What event had a small group of British soldiers firing into a crowd of protesting colonists?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Boston Rebellion

c)

Boston Treaty 

d)

Boston Tea Party

17.

What act forced colonists to buy tea from the British East India Company?

a)

The Tea Act

b)

The Intolerable Acts

c)

The Stamp Act

d)

The Sugar ACt

18.

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

King George III made the Appalachian Mountains the western boundary of the colonist

b)

The Proclamation was a series of taxes

c)

The Proclamation gave the colonies their independence

19.

Which Act required colonist to house British soldiers?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Quartering Acts

c)

Townshend Acts

d)

Sugar Act

20.

Choose all that are accurate about the Boston Tea Party.

a)

Took place in Boston, New Hampshire

b)

Took place in Boston, Massachusetts

c)

Took place on December 16, 1773

d)

Took place at night

e)

Took place on March 5, 1770

21.

What was England's law making body that passed all of the acts?

a)

Parliament

b)

Committees of Correspondence

c)

Loyalist

d)

Propaganda

22.

What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Sons of Liberty threw all the tea in the ocean

b)

Patriots sat and had tea with King George

c)

Native Americans threw all the tea in the ocean

d)

King George had a sale on tea

23.

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

a)

A very peaceful group of protestors that did not believe in violence.

b)

King George's sons

c)

Group of men that protested laws like the Stamp Act; they sometimes used violence and scare tactics.

24.
Who was the King during the American Revolution?
a)
King Arthur
b)
Martin Luther King Jr.
c)
King George III
25.
Information that is spread with the purpose of supporting a cause
a)
Boycott
b)
Propaganda
c)
Bias
26.

refuse to buy

a)

intolerable

b)

boycott

c)

smuggle

d)

repeal

27.

Why did Great Britain pass the Proclamation of 1763?

a)

To help the French

b)

Because they favored the Native Americans

c)

The King made Parliament pass the law

d)

They couldn't afford to protect the colonists from Native American attacks

28.
A snowball fight between the colonists and soldiers in Boston that ended in 5 colonists being killed was called
a)
Boston Tea Party
b)
Boston Massacre
c)
Boston Party
d)
Boston Parliament
29.
The 13 colonies were fighting for freedom from England. What is another word for freedom? 
a)
taxes
b)
tariff
c)
liberty
d)
patriot
30.

How did the colonists resist British laws an taxes?

a)

Boycotts

b)

Protests

c)

Tarring and feathering tax collectors

d)

All of the above

31.

American Colonists had representation in Parliament.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

This Act was in response to the Boston Tea Party, and closed Boston Harbor.

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Townshend Acts

c)

Sugar Act

d)

Intolerable Acts

33.

What term is used to describe having to house British Solders right after the Boston Tea Party?

a)

Quartering

b)

Shacking

c)

Providing

d)

Supporting

34.

When the Colonists in Massachusetts got super upset over the Tea Act, the anger eventually boiled over on December 16, 1773 in an event where a bunch of tea got ruined and dumped into the ocean.

a)

The Boston Massacre

b)

The Coercive Acts

c)

That thing when the people did the thing because of the other thing that made them sure that the thing they were angry about needed to be handled because things can get messy you know?

d)

The Boston Tea Party

35.

Which of these is the correct saying that protested Parliaments taxes?

a)

“No taxation without an explanation”

b)

“First Taxation, Next Extermination”

c)

“No taxation without representation”

d)

“Taxes stink and so does Parliament"

36.

The Proclamation of 1763 told the colonists that they were not allowed to move WEST past which mountain range?

a)

The Himalayas

b)

The Appalachian Mountains

c)

The Rocky Mountains

d)

The Andes Mountains

37.

What major event occurred on March 5, 1770 that saw the deaths of 5 colonists at the hands of British Soldiers?

a)

The Boston Massacre

b)

The Boston Tea Party

c)

The Quartering Act

d)

D-Day

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