Ch 5 Road to Revolution

Question 1

Colonists threw rocks/sticks at British soldiers. Soldiers responded by firing into the crowd.

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 2

4 acts that closed port of Boston, limited colonial self gov and strengthened Quartering Act

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 3

British Parliament gave the British East India Company total control or a ___ of all tea sales.

Accepted Answer

monopoly

Question 4

Boycotts were an effective way of protesting British policies mainly because the boycotts

Accepted Answer

Caused economic hardships for British merchants

Question 5

Which statement most accurately expresses the main idea of this illustration from the 1750s?

Accepted Answer

Colonies cannot survive unless they are united.

Question 6

What did the colonists and the British fight for?

Accepted Answer

land in North America

Question 7

Many American colonists believed that British tax laws were unfair because

Accepted Answer

Colonists lacked representation in Parliament

Question 8

Those who favored independence from Britain were

Accepted Answer

Patriots

Question 9

What does this snake represent?

Accepted Answer

The colonies

Question 10

Required colonists to give food, supplies, and a place to stay to British troops

Accepted Answer

Quartering Act

Question 11

Colonists called for an official end, or _________of the tax policies put in place.

Accepted Answer

repeal

Question 12

Which line separates the 13 American colonies from the newly acquired British territory?

Accepted Answer

Proclamation Line of 1763

Question 13

Under the Sugar Act, an import tax or ____ was put on most products.

Accepted Answer

duty

Question 14

What did the battles of Lexington and Concord prove to many?

Accepted Answer

That war with Britain was inevitable

Question 15

How did colonists show their disproval of the Sugar and Quartering Acts?

Accepted Answer

by boycotting British imports

Question 16

The shutting off of a port by ships to people or supplies from moving in or out.

Accepted Answer

Blockade

Question 17

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger many colonists?

Accepted Answer

The land had just been ceded to them by the French after war

Question 18

What territory were colonists prohibited from settling in due to the proclamation of 1763?

Accepted Answer

British Territory

Question 19

Who won the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

the British

Question 20

The British attempt to seize Patriot weapons led to

Accepted Answer

the first battle of the American Revolution

Question 21

What was the purpose of Paul Revere’s “Bloody Massacre” engraving?

Accepted Answer

to spread hatred toward the British throughout the colonies

Question 22

Citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minutes notice

Accepted Answer

Minuteman

Question 23

What British action sparked the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

The Tea Act

Question 24

After the F&I war, the French had to surrender or __ most of their land holdings in North Am.

Accepted Answer

cede

Question 25

Who fought in the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

British and the Americans vs. French and the Indians

Question 26

Who is being shot in this image?

Accepted Answer

Colonial Citizens

Question 27

A force made up of civilian colonists trained as soldiers were called a ________

Accepted Answer

militia

Question 28

What was the result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

England decided to make American colonists pay war debts

Question 29

An agreement between countries to help each other against other countries is an

Accepted Answer

alliance

Question 30

The Sons of Liberty protested the Tea Act by dumping chests of British tea in the Boston Harbor

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 31

After the French and Indian War, why did the British feel they had to tax the colonists?

Accepted Answer

To pay of debt from the French and Indian War

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