American Revolution (ch. 2)

What was the name of the group that made speeches against taxes and the British government?

• the Boston Tea Party

• The Sons of Liberty

• the Stamp Act

What does "No taxation without representation" mean?

• The colonists had people to represent them in the British Parliament.

• The colonists had no representatives to stand up for them in the British Parliament.

• The end of the Boston Tea Party.

What year did the British repeal the Stamp Act?

• 1767

• 1768

• 1766

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

• A colonists that was killed during the Boston Massacre.

• An enslaved African who lived in Massachusetts and wrote a poem when the Stamp Act was repealed.

• Was the leader of the colonists during the Boston Tea Party.

Who is Crispus Attucks?

• One of the people who died during the Boston Massacre.

• An enslaved African who wrote poetry about the repeal of the Stamp Act.

• The person who started the Sons of Liberty.

Who is Isaac Barre?

• An enslaved African who wrote poetry about the repeal of the Stamp Act.

• He was killed during the Boston Massacre.

• An Irishman who named the Sons of Liberty.

What form of protest did the Sons of Liberty lead in the Boston Harbor?

• The started the Boston Massacre.

• They imposed a tax on the colonists.

• They led a protest by dumping chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

What does the word, boycott mean?

• to force or require

• too painful or hard to be accepted

• to protest something by refusing to buy or use

What does the word, impose mean?

• to force or require

• to bring in a product form another country to be sold

• to send out a product to another country to be sold

Fill in the blank with the correct word:

The United States __________ dairy, eggs, and sugar to other countries.

• impose

• boycott

• exports