American Revolution Causes

Question 1

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 1

Drew an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the line.

Question 2

petition

Answer 2

A formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people.

Question 3

Why did colonists oppose the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?

Answer 3

Colonists opposed the taxes because colonists were not represented in Parliament.

Question 4

What role did the Townshend Acts play in the events that led to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 4

They revived the debate over taxation without representation and allowed officials to search without a good reason.

Question 5

How did the British punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 5

The Intolerable Acts

Question 6

Navigation Acts

Answer 6

Series of English laws in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

Question 7

Quartering Acts

Answer 7

Law that required colonists to supply shelter, clothing, and food to British soldiers.

Question 8

The refusal to buy goods or services from a company or country is known as

Answer 8

boycotting

Question 9

When the colonists declared, “No taxation without representation”, to what did they not have representation?

Answer 9

Parliament

Question 10

Minutemen

Answer 10

Nickname to those who were ready to fight at a moments notice.

Question 11

Repeal

Answer 11

To cancel.

Question 12

“…give me liberty or give me death!”
“A government of our own is our natural right…”
“We must indeed all hang together or, most
assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
During the period of the American Revolution,
these statements were made by members of
which group?

Answer 12

Patriots

Question 13

“…give me liberty or give me death!”
“A government of our own is our natural right…”
“We must indeed all hang together or, most
assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
During the period of the American Revolution,
these statements were made by members of
which group?

Answer 13

Patriots

Question 14

The Battle of Saratoga was significant in the

Revolutionary War because it…

Answer 14

convinced the French to support the

Americans

Question 15

Who wrote most of the Declaration of

Independence?

Answer 15

Thomas Jefferson

Question 16

Where was the first battle of the American

Revolution fought?

Answer 16

Lexington

Question 17

What was a result of the French and Indian War

that led directly to the American Revolution?

Answer 17

England decided to make the American

colonists help pay war debts.

Question 18

What was the primary purpose of the

Declaration of Independence?

Answer 18

to list reasons the colonies should be free

from England

Question 19

Why did fighting break out in Lexington and Concord in April of 1775?

Answer 19

British troops tried to capture colonial weapons and supplies that they had been stockpiling

Question 20

Stamp Act

Answer 20

Law that placed new duties on legal documents, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice.

Question 21

Writs of Assistance

Answer 21

Legal document that allowed British customs officials to inspect a ship’s cargo without giving a reason.

Question 22

Militia

Answer 22

Army of citizens who serve as solders during an emergency.

Question 23

Committee of Correspondence

Answer 23

Letter writing campaign that became a major tool of protest in the colonies.

Question 24

The slogan “No taxation without representation”

referred to taxes enacted by

Answer 24

the English Parliament