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Events leading to the American Revolution
Events leading to the American Revolution
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1
What British action caused colonists to call for 1st Continental Congress?
Tea Act
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Sugar Act
2
Where was the Stamp Act Congress held?
New York City
Philadelphia
Charleston
Washington, D.C.
3
What indirect tax was placed on the colonies to pay for the French and Indian War?
Townshend Duties
Tea Act
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
4
When the British repealed the Townshend Acts, they left the tax on what item?
Paint
Molasses
Sugar
Tea
5
All of the following items were taxed by the Stamp Act EXCEPT
Legal Documents
Ink
Newspapers
Playing Cards
6
How did many colonial merchants respond to the Sugar Act?
smuggling untaxed goods
holding "tea parties"
Forming secret terror groups
boycotting British tea
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What group in S.C. served as the interim government after the Intolerable Acts?
Committee of Correspondence
Lords Proprietors
Committee of 99
Grand Council
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True or False, the Tea Act lowered the tax on British tea.
True
False
9
What British law-making body put taxes on the American colonists?
Continental Congress
Vice-Admiralty Assembly
Grand Council
Parliament
10
Where in S.C. did colonists have "tea parties" to protest the tea act?
Greenville and Spartanburg
Columbia and Charleston
Greenville and Charleston
Charleston and Georgetown
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Why did colonists believe that Parliament had no right to impose taxes on them?
Parliament didn't understand the problems in the colonies
colonists had no representation in Parliament
only the King had the power to tax
colonists were too poor to pay taxes
12
The British policy of not enforcing laws that kept American colonies obedient to England was
called a trade embargo
called policy appeasement
called the coercive acts
called salutary neglect
13
What war in S.C. was caused in part by the French and Indian War?
Catawba War
Cherokee War
Seven Years War
Yemasee War
14
What land claimed by both Britain and France helped cause the French and Indian War?
Hudson River Valley
St. Lawrence River Valley
Ohio River Valley
Mississippi River Valley
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What common action did colonists take to protest the British acts?
Form terror groups
Call for a meeting of colonial leaders
Impose a trade embargo
Boycott British goods
16
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were formed after what British Act passed?
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Elbo Act
17
What courts did the British use to punish smugglers?
Vice-Roy
Civil
Parliament
Vice-Admiralty