American Revolution

What was the effect of the French & Indian War on the British government?

• They were tired
• They fought with Russia
• They had a lot of debt

A law that states colonists had to provide food and housing to the Redcoats

• The Stamp Act
• The Tea Act
• The Sugar Act
• The Quartering Act

The law that said colonists had to buy stamps for printed documents, thus paying more taxes

• The Tea Act
• The Stamp Act
• The Sugar Act
• The Intolerable Acts

True or False: The Tea Act stated colonists had to buy tea from only one British tea company

• True
• False

Angry colonists dressed like Indians and threw tea in the Boston harbor during the...

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• French & Indian War
• Continental Congress

Parliament passed laws to punish the Bostonians for the tea destroyed. These Acts are called...

• The Tea Act
• The Intolerable Acts
• The Stamp Act
• The Battle of Lexington

What is a common nickname for the British soldiers?

• Blue Coats
• Sons of Liberty
• Redcoats
• Indians

When colonists taunted British soldiers, a fight broke out and 5 people died. This is the...

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• French & Indian War
• The Stamp Act

What does 'intolerable' mean?

• awful, cruel, hard to live with
• food & housing
• loyalists

Why did the Sons of Liberty throw tea off the ships into the Boston Harbor?

• to protest the Stamp Act
• to protest the Tea Act
• to declare independence