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Causes of the American Revolution
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What was the name of the militia in Boston?
Tories
Minutemen
Loyalists
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Which act required colonist to house British soldiers?
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
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What event involved violent protests involving name calling and snowballs and the death of five colonists?
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Boston Massacre
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What is propganda?
information that is biased, to publicize a political cause or point of view
economic policy that the colonies only exist to benefit the mother country
to cancel or take back
to refuse to buy
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What was the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War?
Common Sense
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Declaration of Independence
Boston Massacre
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What were the series of laws intended to punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre
The Intolerable Acts
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Which term means goods are being brought in from other countries?
Export
Import
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Which famous cartoon encouraged the colonies to join the fighting the British during the French and Indian War?
Boston Massacre
Join or Die
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Boston Tea Party
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Who drew the famous Join or Die political cartoon?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
William Penn
Benjamin Franklin
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Which term means goods are sold to another country?
Import
Export
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What does the word repeal mean?
to refuse to buy
made the Appalachians Mountains the border of the colonies
to take back or cancel
to deny property rights
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What Act placed a tax on all paper items in the colonies?
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Act
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
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What set of laws were in response to the Boston Tea Party?
Sugar Act
The Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
Townshed Acts
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Who drew the famous Join or Die political cartoon?
Thomas Paine
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
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The Intolerable Acts did all the following EXCEPT:
ban town hall meetings
close Boston Harbor
quartering act
place tax on tea
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Name the battle that is known for "shot heard round the world"
Battle of Breeds Hill
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill
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What is mercantilism?
A legal system between the mother country and colonies
A system where mother country gains money/power from its colonies
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Boston Tea Party
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Below is Paul Revere's engraving. This image depicts which event?
Tarring and feathering tax collectors
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
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True or False? Great Britain wanted to create wealth by importing more goods than itexported?
False
True
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Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
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What economic policies following the French and Indian War caused the American Revolution?
Communism
Mercantilism
Laissez-faire
Capitialism
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What does the word boycott mean?
to take back
to cancel
refusal to buy a product or service
to deny ownership of a product or property
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What was the goal of the Navigation Acts?
To regulate trade so the colonies could make more profit
To regulate trade so England could make more profit
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What event led the representatives to meet at the first Continental Congress meeting?
Stamp Act passed
Intolerable Acts passed by King George III
Boston Massacre
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Who organized the Boston Tea Party?
George Washington
King George III
John Adams
Sons of LIberty
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What event was used as anti-British propaganda?
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
French and Indian War
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What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The Proclamation was a series of taxes
King made the Appalachian Mountains the western boundary of the colonist
The Proclamation ended the French and Indian War
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Which two groups fought in the French and Indian War?
English vs. Germany
Spanish vs. French
French vs. Canada
British colonists vs. French and Native Americans
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Where was the first Continental Congress held?
Philadelphia
NYC
Washington D.C.
