Combined: Chapter 8 - Road to War + Causes of the American Revolution Challenge

Question 1

One of the consequences of the Intolerable Acts was __________.

Accepted Answer

All of these happened!

Question 2

Group of colonists formed to spread news quickly

Accepted Answer

Committees of Correspondence

Question 3

Law passed by Parliament stating that only East India Company could sell tea to the colonies

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 4

Virginia Patriot and lawyer and first to speak out against the Stamp Act

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

Question 5

Many British soldiers lived in the colonies. A fight broke out in Boston and soldiers fired on colonists. It was named

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 6

Group of colonists who began weaving cloth that could be used instead of British wool.

Accepted Answer

Daughters of Liberty

Question 7

The British heard about these militias. They sent soldiers to take their gunpowder in _______ .

Accepted Answer

Concord, Massachusetts

Question 8

Tax on imported goods

Accepted Answer

tariff

Question 9

The British were not successful in their attempts because ________.

Accepted Answer

The midnight ride of Paul Revere. He and two others warned the minutemen!

Question 10

Group of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 11

Law passed by Parliament that taxed printed materials

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 12

After boycotts and protests of all kinds, Parliament ended up ________ the Stamp Act.

Accepted Answer

repealing

Question 13

How many colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 14

After the Stamp Act was repealed, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts. How did colonists get this repealed?

Accepted Answer

They boycotted British goods

Question 15

African American Patriot killed during the Boston Massacre

Accepted Answer

Crispus Attucks

Question 16

Why did many colonists believe these taxes were so unfair?

Accepted Answer

It was taxation without representation

Question 17

Law passed to punish the people of Boston after the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 18

Militia group that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice

Accepted Answer

Minutemen

Question 19

Boston Patriot and organizer of the Sons of Liberty

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 20

American colonists who opposed British rule

Accepted Answer

Patriots

Question 21

Law passed by Parliament that taxed goods imported by the 13 Colonies

Accepted Answer

Townshend Acts

Question 22

To protest the Tea Act, members of the Sons of Liberty planned a protest. They dumped tea into

Accepted Answer

Boston Harbor

Question 23

After the Intolerable Acts, 12 colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia for the 1st Continental Congress. They agreed to

Accepted Answer

Train militias just in case fighting broke out

Question 24

Britain's law making assembly

Accepted Answer

Parliament

Question 25

King of Britain during the Revolution

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George III

Question 26

Refusal to buy goods

Accepted Answer

boycott

Question 27

To cancel

Accepted Answer

repeal

Question 28

Colonists who remained loyal to the British

Accepted Answer

Loyalists

Question 29

Costly victory for British troops of Patriots in Massachusetts

Accepted Answer

Battle of Bunker Hill

Question 30

Event in Boston in which angry British soldiers killed five colonists

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 31

The first battle of the American Revolution occurred in Lexington, Massachusetts. Who fired the first shot?

Accepted Answer

Nobody knows

Question 32

Boston writer who encouraged people to stop buying imported goods

Accepted Answer

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 33

Led the colonists in the Battle of Bunker Hill

Accepted Answer

William Prescott

Question 34

The British win the French and Indian War and gain new land. What else did they get?

Accepted Answer

Lots of debt

Question 35

Volunteer armies

Accepted Answer

militias

Question 36

The war between the colonies and Great Britain

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American Revolution

Question 37

After the Townshend Acts were repealed the only tax left was a tax on ______.

Accepted Answer

Tea

Question 38

To punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the ___________.

Accepted Answer

Intolerable Acts

Question 39

Meeting from every colony (except Georgia) to discuss actions to the Intolerable Acts

Accepted Answer

First Continental Congress

Combined: Chapter 8 - Road to War + Causes of the American Revolution Challenge

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Combined: Chapter 8 - Road to War + Causes of the American Revolution Challenge

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