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Causes of the American Revolution
Causes of the American Revolution
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What is the meaning behind "No Taxation without Representation"?
Having money to vote
Having to tax all goods
Having a tax for each representative
Having a voice in government
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What was the Townshend Tax?
Tax on imported goods like sugar
Tax on paper goods like legal and commercial documents
Tax on imported goods like paint, tea, glass and paper
Tax on imported goods like tea and sugar
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Colonists loved the economic policies or taxes they were forced to pay.
IDK
Maybe
True
False
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What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Made Spain in charge of the colonies
Put Obama as president
It created a peace treaty with Natives
Stopped expansion West of the Appalachians
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What natural border is directly west of the colonies?
Appalachian Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountains
6
What happened before the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Acts were passed
Independence was declared
The Tea Act was passed
The American Revolution
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What happened after the French and Indian War?
The Natives gifted the colonists many gifts
Colonists sent a selfie of them crossing the Appalachians
The colonies were taxed to help pay for the war debt
The colonies were given money to buy the Ohio River Valley
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Who were the Sons of Liberty?
A group created to tax colonists
A group created to hunt down British soldiers
A group created to party
A group created to fight against taxation
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Which of the following did the Intolerable Act NOT do?
Sent more soldiers to the colonies
Limited town meetings
Closed the ports in Boston
Gave more power to the colonists
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What happened during the Boston Tea Party?
French settlers dumped tea into the harbor
Native Americans dumped tea into the harbor
Soldiers dumped tea into the harbor
Colonists dumped tea into the harbor
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What was mercantilism?
Mother country supported manufacturing
Mother country benefits from the raw materials of colonies
Colonies supported manufacturing
Colonies benefit from the manufactured goods of the colonies
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Who was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
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What was the Tea act?
Raised tax on Dutch and French companies
Raised tax on English and French companies
Lowered tax on Dutch and French companies
Raised tax on English company
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What was a result of the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Sugar Act
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What happened in the Boston Massacre?
British soldiers shot into a crowd of unarmed colonists
Native Americans shot into a crowd of quakers
Colonists shot into crowd of British soldiers
Pilgrims attacked French settlers
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What was the quartering act?
Colonists had to give soldiers quarters
Colonists had to provide food & shelter to British soldiers
Colonists had to train British Soldiers
Colonists had to protect soldiers from Native Americans
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Who benefits in a mercantilism economic system?
The Church
No one
Colonies
Mother Country
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What do all these documents have in common?
British control of the colonial government
Native American Policies and French Policies
Self Government and Representative Government
Taxation and mercantilism
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What caused the Intolerable Acts?
Boston Tea Party
Mexican War
Boston Massacre
French and Indian War
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Why were the colonist angry about the taxes?
They were not angry
They thought taxes were fair
They wanted more taxes
They were being taxed without representation
