American Revolution

Why did the British Government start taxing the American Colonists?

• To raise money for the Royal Navy
• To pay off the war debt from the French and Indian War
• To create a new source of revenue for the King
• The British Government didn't start taxing the colonists.

What is the name of the event when the colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

• Boston Tea Party
• French and Indian War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar Act

What is the name of the event where British troops fired on colonists?

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Townshend Acts
• Sugar Act

Why did King George III begin taxing the colonists?

• He didn't like them
• He was selfish
• England needed money to pay debts from the French and Indian War
• The colonists had extra money

What is the group called who makes the English laws?

• President
• Parliment
• People's Republic
• Congress

This Act made colonists buy stamps to place on all their printed documents. 

• Tea Act
• Quartering Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Stamp Act

One of the men who led the fight against these taxes was ______.

• Samuel Adams
• Samuel Johnson
• Samuel Dean
• Samuel Prescott

What does "boycott" mean?

• to refuse to buy goods or services from someone
• to pay taxes
• to sell things to other coutries
• to feel everything is good

The British government put a tax on something the colonists drank.  What was it?

• coffee
• milk
• tea
• water

After the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress was created to

• pay more taxes

• talk to the French

• create an alliance with the Native Americans

• discuss grievances (complaints)