VAUS 5C: Buildup to War

Which of the following became a rallying cry for colonists?

• "No Taxation without Representation in Parliament"

• "No tyranny, only Truth"

• "Give me Liberty or give me Death"

• "Down with the King"

Who is known as the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Samuel Adams

• George Washington

What sparked the Boston Massacre?

• Colonists throwing snow balls at British soldiers

• British soldiers shooting colonists

• The Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

The event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped British Tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of British rule was the:

• Boston Tea Party

• Revolutionary War

• Tea Act

• Boston Massacre

The Townshend Acts:

• Placed a tax on tea, lead, glass, and paint

• Closed the Boston Harbor

• Banned Town Meetings

• Taxed sugar

This act placed a tax on most paper goods, newspapers, playing cards, books, and calendars:

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

These acts were passed by British Parliament in order to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

Why was the phrase "no taxation without respresentation in Parliament" so important to the revolutionary cause?

• Colonists did not wish to support a government in which they had no voice

• Colonists beleived that Great Britain should only tax certain items

• Great Britain would have ended taxation if colonists had kept the peace

• Great Britain only taxed the colonists to force them to rebel.

Americans wanting to break away from Britain are called:

• Patriots

• Tories

• British

• Loyalists

Which Patriot warned Lexington of the British attack?

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

• John Adams

• John Hancock