Causes of the American Revolution

Question 1

Who did the colonists help the British defeat?

Answer 1

the French

Question 2

After the French and Indian war, was Britain more controlling or less controlling of the colonies?

Answer 2

more controlling

Question 3

What did Parliament’s new laws and restrictions threaten?

Answer 3

the colonists’ freedoms

Question 4

Who was King George III?

Answer 4

British monarch, issued many reforms

Question 5

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 5

limit westward expansion and restricted speculation

Question 6

What does it mean to speculate?

Answer 6

buy as an investment

Question 7

What did the Quartering Act do?

Answer 7

required colonists to house British soldiers

Question 8

Why did Parliament tax the colonies?

Answer 8

to pay off debts from the French and Indian War

Question 9

What was Parliament’s solution to pay off their debts from the French and Indian War?

Answer 9

tax the colonists

Question 10

What did the Sugar Act do?

Answer 10

placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products

Question 11

What did the Stamp Act do?

Answer 11

required all legal and commercial documents to carry official stamps showing a tax was paid

Question 12

How did Parliament view the Stamp Act?

Answer 12

reasonable

Question 13

How did colonists view the Stamp Act?

Answer 13

a threat

Question 14

What was the colonists’ saying for no tax being created without their consent?

Answer 14

“No taxation without representation”

Question 15

Who was Patrick Henry?

Answer 15

member of the House of Burgesses, demanded resistance

Question 16

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 16

delegates from nine colonies who protested the Stamp Act

Question 17

What was so special about the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 17

this was the first time the colonists united against British politics

Question 18

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 18

secret society formed to oppose British policies

Question 19

What did the Sons of Liberty do?

Answer 19

encourage people to attack customs agents and burned the stamps

Question 20

What is a boycott?

Answer 20

widespread refusal to buy British goods

Question 21

Did Parliament finally repeal the Stamp Act?

Answer 21

yes

Question 22

What was the Declaratory Act?

Answer 22

stated Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies

Question 23

Who was Crispus Attucks?

Answer 23

sailor of African American and Native American ancestry who died at the Boston Massacre

Question 24

What was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 24

incident in 1770 in which Boston troops fired on and killed American colonists

Question 25

When was the Declaratory Act passed?

Answer 25

1766

Question 26

When was the Stamp Act Congress formed?

Answer 26

1765

Question 27

Why was the Declaratory Act passed?

Answer 27

to reassert Parliament’s control over the colonists

Question 28

Did any new tax accompany the Declaratory Act?

Answer 28

no

Question 29

How did colonists feel about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 29

they did not feel threatened by the act and simply ignored it

Question 30

Why did Parliament pass the Townshend Acts?

Answer 30

they still needed money to pay for troops

Question 31

What are Dutips?

Answer 31

taxes on imports