Road to Revolution-Test

Match the acts to the tax or law they put in place:

• Acts given after Boston Tea party

• Intolerable Acts

• All paper needs special stamp

• Tea Act

• Goods like glass and paint were taxed

• Townshend Act

• Can only buy tea from East India Tea Co.

• Sugar Act

• Sugar taxed unless from England

• Stamp Act

Put the acts in chronological order.

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

King George started ​ (a)   the colonies to get back money that was spent during the ​ (b)   .

• taxing
• French and Indian War
• War of 1812
• fighting
• Civil War
• singing to

Sort the options into the correct category:

Groups:

(a) Loyalist

,

(b) Patriot

,

(c) Minutemen

,

(d) Sons of Liberty

• Group of men fighting for freedom in the colonies

• Elite soldiers that needed to be ready to fight quickly

• Loyal to King George and to England

• Wants freedom from England and King George

What was the Boston Port Act?

• King George got to choose the governors

• No goods would be sent to colonies until money for tea was sent

• Colonists could only buy tea from East India Tea Company

What was the Quartering Act?

• Colonists had to house British soldiers and provide for them

• No good would be sent to colonies until tea was paid for

• If you chose to go to court against Britain, you would have to go to England

• Sugar from countries besides England were taxed

What was the Massachusetts's Government Act?

• King George picked the governors for the colonies

• All paper needed a stamp that colonists had to pay for

• Colonists had to house and feed soldiers

What was the Administration of Justice?

• Colonists had to go to England if they were going to go to court against Britain

• Common goods like paper, lead, and glass were taxed

• King George got to have parties at any colonists house at any time

What started the Boston Massacre?

• An argument and a snowball fight

• A colonist attacked a soldier outside a post office

• British soldiers caught colonists smuggling goods

• King George told British soldiers to attack them

What did the colonists do to rebel against the Tea Act?

• They started a fight with British soldiers

• They wrote King George a letter complaining about the taxes

• They boycotted the tea and threw tea off the ships, which was called the Boston Tea Party

• They smuggled tea from India into the country to sell in secret