20 questions
The secret organization that was led by Samuel Adams and created the motto: "No Taxation without Representation!"
Daughters of Liberty
Sons of Liberty
The Stamp Act Congress
The Real Dudez
What are some things the Townshend Acts taxed?
Glass, tea, paper
Glass, sugar, molasses
All printed documents
closed the Boston Harbor and limited self-government in Massachusetts
Parliament repealed every tax in the Townshend Acts except the tax on:
tea
glass
paper
lead
The Tea Act of 1773 allowed the British East India Company to have a _______________ on the sale of tea.
restriction
monopoly
savings
difficulty
What major step to the Revolution happened AFTER the Tea Act?
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The Townshend Acts
Lexington and Concord
What major event happened AFTER the Boston Tea Party?
The Townshend Acts were repealed.
The Sugar Act.
The First Continental Congress met.
The Intolerable Acts.
The closing of Boston Harbor, the limiting of self-government in Massachusetts, and a stronger Quartering Act are things Parliament did to punish the colonists. What act was this a part of:
The Townshend Acts
The Intolerable Acts
The Tea Act
The Sugar Act
What did the First Continental Congress decide?
Ban trade with France and gather weapons.
Gather weapons, but decide to pay any taxes Britain wanted the colonists to pay.
Ban trade with Britain and gather weapons (arms) to prepare for a fight.
Which British law banned colonists from traveling west past the Appalachian Mountains?
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Quartering Act
Which British law was a tax on printed materials like newspapers, playing cards, or legal documents?
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Townshend Acts
What is the best description of the Boston Massacre?
Members of the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor in an act of civil disobedience.
Concerned about the boycotts in the colonies, Parliament repealed all taxes in this act except the tax on tea.
Soldiers provoked by an angry mob fired into the crowd and killed 5 colonists. Crispus Attucks was the first American casualty in the Revolution.
What did the Sugar Act lower the taxes on?
molasses, sugar, and coffee
tea
toilet paper and paper towels
What is an example of violent protests the Sons of Liberty participated in?
Hunting deer in the woods
Burning effigies and tar and feathering British tax collectors
Eating food in the cafeteria
What was the first gathering of colonial officials?
Continental Congress
Stamp Act Congress
Constitutional Convention
Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Parliament declared that Parliament had the right to make laws for the colonists "in all cases whatsoever."
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
What is an example of something the Stamp Act taxed?
Newspapers and legal documents
Tea and coffee
Sugar and molasses
The first military exchange (battle) between the Patriots and England.
Lexington and Concord
Bull Run
Saratoga
Which act forced citizens to house soldiers?
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Townshend Acts
What is a popular thing colonists would do to show their displeasure with English acts?
Protest and boycott goods
Nothing, they loved the laws