Causes of the Revolutionary War

What did Britain do as a result of the French and Indian War?

• The stopped the fur trade in North America.
• The signed the treaty of London.
• They gave four colonies away to the French.
• They decided to tax the colonists to help pay for the war.

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What were the taxes on all printed materials(newspaper,legal documents, and playing cards) in the colonies called?

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

_______ was in charge of the government in the colonies before the French and Indian War?

• Great Britian

• The colonist

• Parliament

• Native Americans

________ was NOT a reaction to the Stamp Act.

• They sent a petition to the king.

• The colonists agreed to send representatives to the First Continental Congress

• They organized the Sons and Daughters of Liberty

• They declared a boycott on British Goods

Which does describe the Tea Act?

• An act that placed a tax on tea

• an act that gave the British East India Tea Company rights to sell tea in the colonies

• Colonists were boycotting tea

• The first direct tax on paper products

What happened at the Boston Tea Party?

• Sons of Liberty threw all the tea in the ocean

• Patriots sat and had tea with King George

• Native Americans threw all the tea in the ocean

• King George had a sale on tea

What did Great Britain originally call the Intolerable Acts?

• Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Coercive Acts

• Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts were a

• Tax on tea

• Punishment for the Boston Tea Party

• truce between Britain and the colonies

What did the representatives NOT do at the First Continental Congress?

• Sent a letter pledging loyalty to the King of England

• Agreed to purchase tea from the East India Tea Company

• Prepared to establish militias

• Boycott on all trade with Great Britain

What happened to the tea that was imported into Charleston?

• Poured it in the streets

• Threw the tea off the ships

• Kept it in a warehouse

• The Native Americans drank it