Road to Revolution Week 9 Assessment

What was the action call that started the American Revolution in April 1775?

• no taxation without representation

• the shot heard around the world

• the minute men are attacking

• emancipation proclamation

What event came between the Boston Massacre and the Coercive (intolerable) Acts?

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• The Monopoly

• The Sons of Liberty

Why didn’t Parliament want representatives from the colonies?

• The sons of liberty were the representatives

• The Boston tea party was too aggressive

• George Washington was the representative

• Parliament represented all British citizens.

Why did Parliament raise taxes on the colonists?

• They didn’t have enough money to pay off the war expenses.

• They Parliament wanted to raise their salaries.

• They wanted more money to make more ships.

• All the money was used to make more houses.

What was the Stamp Act passed for?

• To control the stamps being made

• For parliament to make new stamps

• Placed a tax on all paper documents by Parliament

• To buy all of the stamps in America

What was the Townshend Act of 1767?

• Put taxes on a lot of the household items

• Put taxes on the water that was used

• Put taxes on whole towns

• Put taxes on buying houses

What was the name of the people that supported the protest against Parliament?

• Loyalists

• Comenors

• Colonists

• Patriots

How did King George III punish the colonists that were in the Boston Tea Party?

• A) Took away the charter from the Massachusetts Colony

• B) British soldiers get room and board from colonist

• C) Forced to wear British soldiers uniforms

• D) Closed Boston Harbor until all debt was paid

What is the meaning of monopoly?

• Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.

• A market structure where there are many sellers and buyers.

• A situation where the government controls all businesses.

• A system where all firms have equal market share.

Who was the king that the colonists were going up against?

• King Andrew IV

• King Stephen V

• King George III

• King Anthony X