Ryan: SS Chap 5 - The Road to War

Parliament passed new ______ on the colonies to pay the costs of war.

• taxes

• laws

• regulations

• treaties

Colonists protested the ______.

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

Lead, glass and paint were taxed in the ______.

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

A tax is the ______ that the government collects.

• money

• food

• clothing

• furniture

During the ______, Patriots dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Tea Party

• American Revolution

• Declaration of Independence

• Battle of Bunker Hill

The ______ gave British soldiers the right to live in colonists' homes.

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

______ was not represented at the First Continental Congress.

• Georgia

• Virginia

• New York

• Massachusetts

The event that started the first battle of the ______ began when Minutemen attacked British soldiers who had come to arrest two patriot leaders in Lexington.

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• War of 1812

• French and Indian War

The ______ drew up a Declaration of Rights, called for another boycott of British goods, and wrote letters of complaint.

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• British Parliament

• Colonial Assembly

The aim of the Second Continental Congress was to create an official _______.

• army

• constitution

• treaty

• currency