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WorksheetsSS.7.CG.1.5
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What did the Townshend Act of 1767 tax?
Sugar and coffee
Legal documents and pamphlets
Tea, paint, lead, glass, paper
Land and property
What was the British Parliament's main reason for taxing the colonists?
To punish the colonists
To raise money to pay off war debts
To encourage trade
To support colonial businesses
What did the colonists lack in the British Parliament that led to their protest?
Military support
Representation
Financial aid
Trade agreements
What did the King refuse to do, leading to the Second Continental Congress?
Lower taxes
Answer the petition from the First Continental Congress
Send more troops
Grant independence
What did the colonists hope would happen at first during the discussions in 1775?
The King would abdicate
The problem would be solved peacefully
They would gain immediate independence
The British would leave the colonies
What was the colonists' reaction to the King's continued acts and taxes?
They accepted the taxes willingly.
They moved back to Britain.
They began the battle cry “No taxation without Representation.”
They ignored the taxes.
What action did the colonists take when they were fed up with British policies?
They wrote a petition of rights to the King.
They declared war immediately.
They moved to another continent.
They accepted the policies.
What significant document was written as a result of the colonists' grievances?
The Magna Carta
The Declaration of Independence
The Treaty of Paris
The Bill of Rights
After months of protests & boycotts over the Stamp Act by Patriots, Parliament decided to
Stop all current and future taxes
Encourage Americans to move to Canada
Repeal the act
Imprison the protesters
Why were Colonists angered by the new taxes placed on the colonies following the French and Indian War
They believed their taxes were being wasted by King George III
They felt that they should have representation in Parliament
The issue of taxing colonists had never before been raised
The British policy of Salutary Neglect was being enforced
Passage of the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, & Townshend Acts all contributed to start of the American Revolution by....
Restricting colonial trade with other nations
Raising the price of Spanish goods shipped into the colonies
influencing the colonists to rebel against British taxation
limiting the power of colonial legislatures
What was the main reason for the Boston Tea Party?
To celebrate a new shipment of tea
To protest against the Tea Act imposed by Britain
To welcome British soldiers to Boston
To start a new tea company in America
What conflict caused the British to put the first tax on the colonists?
The French and Indian War
The Hundred Years War
The Spanish-American War
The Civil War
The first tax placed on the colonists by the British was the (a) Act
How did colonists respond to most British taxes?
They paid the taxes to keep the King happy
They boycotted the taxes on goods
They started the Revolutionary War
They attacked British soldiers being housed in the colonies
What was the main complaint the colonists had against the King?
The taxes were too high and colonists could not pay them
The King took all of their land and gave it to other European settlers
The colonists were forced to fight in the French and Indian War
They were being taxed without representation in parliament
What was the name of the law that forced colonists to house British soldiers?
Stamp Act
Declaratory Acts
Quartering Act
Townshend Acts
What law passed by the King led to the Boston Tea Party?
Tea Act
Declaratory Acts
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
After the Boston Tea Party, what laws were put in place by the King to punish those in the Massachusetts colony?
Townshend Acts
Intolerable Acts
Quartering Act
Tea Act
What was the main idea of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, "Common Sense"?
The British were right and colonists should pay their taxes
Colonists should break away from the British and form their own government
The colonists should write to the King asking for the two sides to find common ground
The colonists should rise up and remove the King from power
