Lesson 5: Toward Independence

Question 1

How did Britain forcefully rule the colonies after the French and Indian War?

Answer 1

They required colonists to pay taxes

Question 2

Why do you think patriots used the title “BLOODY MASSACRE in BOSTON” when only 5 people died?

Answer 2

Patriots were trying to get other colonists angry at the British

Question 3

What was one of the biggest causes of the American Revolution?

Answer 3

The debt from the French and Indian War

Question 4

Put the following in chronological order:

Battle at Lexington

French and Indian War

Boston Tea Party

The Stamp Act

The Intolerable Acts

The Townshend Acts

Answer 4

1. French and Indian War
2. The Stamp Act
3. The Townshend Acts
4. The Boston Tea Party
5. The Intolerable Acts
6. Battle at Lexington

Question 5

The Stamp Act angered colonists because…

Answer 5

There was no representation by colonists in this new law… in other words “no taxation without representation!”

Question 6

French & Indian War

Answer 6

1. Colonists had went west and got into trouble with French & Indians
2. British helped the Colonists defeat the French & Indians
3. They won land
4. However, British owed A LOT OF MONEY because of this war

Question 7

Why did leaders from the different colonies want to come together to meet at the First Continental Congress?

Answer 7

to solve their problems with Britain

Question 8

What was Britain’s reaction to the colonies rebelling against the Stamp Act?

Answer 8

Britain repealed (removed) the Stamp Act

Question 9

Loyalists did not like the Patriots because….

Answer 9

Loyalists thought the Patriots were rebels who forgot all the good things Britain has done for them

Question 10

What were the colonists reaction to the Townshend Acts?

Answer 10

They boycotted. The real hero of the boycotts were the women. So you can say they women-cotted the Townshend Acts.

Question 11

What caused Britain to want to create the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 11

The Boston Tea Party

Question 12

What famous propagand picture did Paul Revere engrave?

Answer 12

Boston Massacre

Question 13

Which one of the following did the Patriots think was unfair?

Boston Tea Party, Proclamation of 1763, French and Indian War

Answer 13

Proclamation of 1763

Question 14

What did the British realize about the colonists at the Battle of Lexington?

Answer 14

colonists were willing to die for their right to self-govern

Question 15

Before Britain’s new policies and taxes, what was the colonies’ goverment like?

Answer 15

Colonies self-governed (ruled themselves) using their own assemblies.

Question 16

What were the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 16

1. Shut down Boston Harbor
2. Sent many more troops to Massachusetts to police the colonists.
3. Took away Massachusetts’ right to self-govern
4. British soldiers were to be tried in Britain