Social Studies 4th Grade Causes of the American Revolution

Question 1

How did congress let the British Government know about wanting the same freedoms?

Accepted Answer

they wrote a letter

Question 2

How did most of the colonists feel about the taxes?

Accepted Answer

unhappy

Question 3

What happened to the Stamp Act in 1766?

Accepted Answer

These all mean the same

Question 4

What did the Sugar Act put taxes on?

Accepted Answer

sugar, coffee, indigo, cloth, & wine

Question 5

In 1750 which 2 countries went to war over who would own the Ohio River Valley?

Accepted Answer

France, Britain

Question 6

then in 1773, Parliament passed the _______that only allowed East India Tea Company to sell tea

Accepted Answer

Tea Act

Question 7

Which of the following were taxed by the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 8

Another name for a representative from a colony is a ___________

Accepted Answer

Delegate

Question 9

Delegates from the colonies met to discuss the Intolerable Acts. The meeting was _________

Accepted Answer

The First Continental Congress

Question 10

Congress thought that American colonists should have the same rights as _____

Accepted Answer

British Citizens

Question 11

Did the colonists have their own representatives in the British Parliament?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 12

A group called ______________ wanted the colonies to be free from any other country's rules

Accepted Answer

Sons of Liberty

Question 13

What did the militias do after they heard about the Battle of Lexington & Concord?

Accepted Answer

trapped the British in Boston

Question 14

What happened to the tea from the East India tea Company when no one in Boston would sell it?

Accepted Answer

It sat unloaded on a ship in the Boston Harbor

Question 15

What did colonists have to put on any paper item they had?

Accepted Answer

a tax stamp

Question 16

What Country passed the Sugar Act in 1764?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 17

What was the phrase that the colonists used about taxes with no power in government

Accepted Answer

"No taxation with out representation"

Question 18

Who did the British soldiers need to protect in Boston?

Accepted Answer

British tax officials

Question 19

Why did the British Parliament decide to tax the American colonists?

Accepted Answer

to help pay back the cost of the French & Indian War

Question 20

What was the name of the agreement that Britain & France signed to make peace with each other?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Paris

Question 21

Why did the British and French people want control of the Ohio River Valley?

Accepted Answer

fur

Question 22

What do you call money paid to a government for a service?

Accepted Answer

a tax

Question 23

Who made an angry speech about the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

Patrick Henry

Question 24

What types of things coming from other countries did the Townsend Acts tax?

Accepted Answer

all of these and more

Question 25

Which side shot the first shot at the Battle of Lexington?

Accepted Answer

no one knows

Question 26

The British passed these acts after the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

Coercive Acts

Question 27

When the colonists dumped the tea in the harbor in December 1773, what was that called?

Accepted Answer

None of the above

Question 28

in March of 1770, a big fight called the ____________ killed 5 colonists.

Accepted Answer

Boston Massacre

Question 29

The colonists got really mad about the tea tax and did what?

Accepted Answer

dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor

Question 30

Why did the colonists call the Coercive Acts the "Intolerable Acts"?

Accepted Answer

they felt they were unbearable

Question 31

Did the colonists have representatives in their local government?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 32

Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty group in Boston?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 33

The colonists wanted their ___________ to pass laws for them instead of British Parliament

Accepted Answer

local representatives

Question 34

Why was the Battle of Lexington & Concord so important?

Accepted Answer

It was the 1st battle of the Revolutionary War

Question 35

How did Britain's King George respond to the letter from Congress about freedom

Accepted Answer

he sent more troops to Boston

Question 36

The 2 Patriots that rode horseback to warn that the British were coming towards Concord were...

Accepted Answer

Paul Revere & William Dawes

Question 37

Many British merchants didn't sell as much of their items because the colonists did this.....

Accepted Answer

they boycotted the Britain's stuff

Question 38

Gen Thomas Gage, the British governor of Mass, knew that Patriots were storing supplies like...

Accepted Answer

gunpowder & cannons

Question 39

Representatives from the colonies met in 1754 to see how they could fight against what country?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 40

Parlaiment finally decided to remove almost all of the taxes EXCEPT the taxes on ___

Accepted Answer

tea

Social Studies 4th Grade Causes of the American Revolution

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Social Studies 4th Grade Causes of the American Revolution

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