Road to the Revolution

Who assisted the French in their attempt to maintain control of the Ohio Valley?

• Native Americans

• The Spanish

• The English

When the French lost the French and Indian War, what did they surrender to North America?

• tea

• land claims

• paper

Ben Franklin created a segmented snake in his primary source, "Join or Die", to encourage the colonies to (a)   them together against the French.

Colonists were angry about the Tea Act because England gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.

• true

• false

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of colonial leasers. They sent a petition to King George III stating that

• They were separating from England immediately.

• Parliament's taxation of the colonies without representation was unfair

• Colonists were no longer willing to be British citizens.

The stamp act was a tax on all ______ items.

• tea

• paper

• land

The Boston Massacre was a clash between _______ and __________.

• British soldiers

• Native Americans

• colonists

• King George III

On December 16, 1773, 342 crates of tea were tossed into Boston Harbor in an act of rebellion. The act is now known as ___________

• The Boston Massacre

• The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Townshend Acts

British soldiers were marching to Lexington and Concord for two reasons. First they wanted to capture rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Second they wanted to___________

• destroy colonial weapons

• Boycott the Stamp Act

• Boycott the Tea Act

• Go to war on Bunker Hill

England punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party by creating the

• First Continental Congress

• The Townshend Acts

• The Coercive Acts