Acts before Revolutionary War

Question 1

What was the Sugar Act?

Answer 1

Tax placed on sugar and molasses because colonists are British subjects

Question 2

What was the impact of the sugar Act?

Answer 2

Colonists protest and smuggle sugar and molasses

Question 3

What was the Quarting Act?

Answer 3

Required colonies to provide British troops with quarters and supplies

Question 4

What was the impact of the Quarting Act?

Answer 4

Coloninal assemblies vote to refuse to supply British soldiers

Question 5

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 5

Any item that was made of paper required a stamped tax payment to be made

Question 6

What was the impact of the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

Colonists argued taxation with representation; Stamp Act was repealed

Question 7

What was the Townshead Act?

Answer 7

Tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea

Question 8

What was the impact of the Townshend Act?

Answer 8

Colonists smuggled goods
Boycotted British goods
Fight with British troops

Question 9

What was the Tea Act?

Answer 9

Tax on tea, it was a plan to bail out East India Tea Company through tax on tea

Question 10

What was the impact of the Tea Act?

Answer 10

Boston Tea Party

Smuggling of tea

Question 11

What was the Intolerable Act?

Answer 11

Response to Tea Party assembly and twon meeting dissolved
Port of Boston closed
British tried in England

Question 12

What was the Qubec Act?

Answer 12

Prohibited colonists from moving into Ohio River Valley

Catholic Religion in region

Question 13

What was the impact of the Quebec Act?

Answer 13

Colonists were expected to settle in the region

Question 14

Where does the power lie in a Monarchy Government?

Answer 14

With a king and those he appoints to office

Question 15

Who was the lawmaking body in England?

Answer 15

Parliment

Question 16

What is a representative government?

Answer 16

Citizens elect their own representatives who will represent them in government

Question 17

In a representative government, the people create the government and have the right to make what?

Answer 17

Changes when they see fit

Question 18

Who said “No taxation without representation”?

Answer 18

Samuel Adams

Question 19

Who wrote, “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal..”?

Answer 19

Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)

Question 20

Where is the following quote found? “…that they were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”

Answer 20

Declaration of Independence

Question 21

What was the prelude to the American Revolution?

Answer 21

Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Townshend Act 1767
Boston Massacre 1770
Boston Tea Party 1773
Intolerable Acts 1774
First Contiental Congress 1774
Battles of Lexington/Concord 1775
Second Contiential Congress 1775
Declaration of Independence adapted 1776

Question 22

What was the order of the Acts?

Answer 22

Sugar Act 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Quartering Act 1765
Declaration Act 1766
Townshead and Revenue Act 1767
Tea Act 1773
Intolerable Act 1774