Pear Deck Lesson Causes of the Revolution Questions

The economic system between the colonies and Great Britain operated under the theory of _______________, in which the parent country would sell more goods to the colonies than the colonies would sell to Britain.

• socialism

• communism

• mercantilism

• capitalism

Identify just the tax laws that angered Americans.

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

What event caused the British to start taxing the colonies?

• Revolutionary War

• Glorious Revolution

• French & Indian War

• Boston Massacre

The colonists were upset with the _____________________ because it was meant to keep them from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

• English Bill of Rights

The _______________________ stated Parliament had the right to tax and make

decisions for the American colonies "in all cases."

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaratory Act

• English Bill of Rights

What law allowed the British East India Company to sell its tea in the colonies without being taxed, thus angering America tea merchants?.

• Coercive Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

The British responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the _________________, laws that restricted colonists' rights like the right to trial by jury.

• Stamp Act
• Coercive Acts
• Navigation Acts
• Intolerable Acts

How did the colonists initially fight back against British taxes and policies?

• They kidnapped KIng George III

• They invaded England and attacked Parliament

• They boycotted British-made goods

• They moved to France

What law placed a tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea?

• Townshend Acts

• Coercive Acts

• Tea Act

• Proclamation of 1763

The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at _____________ and ______________, Massachusetts.

• Lexington

• Philadelphia

• Harrisburg

• Concord

• Boston