The Road To Revolution Quiz # 1
- 1.By 1754, Colonists in the British colonies
- A.
Did not have the same rights as people in Britian
- B.
Were used to governing themselves.
- C.
Could elect members to parliament
- 2.After the French and Indian War, Britian
- A.
Gave the colonies independence.
- B.
Lowered the colonists' taxes
- C.
Passed laws to tax the colonists
- 3.The Colonists thought laws for the colonies
- A.
Should be passed in thier legislatures
- B.
Should be passed by the English Parliament
- C.
Should be made by the king
- 4.The Stamp Act was a law that
- A.
Created post offices for America
- B.
Taxed the colonists
- C.
Was passed by the colonists
- 5.When the colonists said, "no taxation without representation" they meant
- A.
Colonial legislatures could not tax them
- B.
Parliament could not tax them
- C.
Only the king could tax them
- 6.The Intolerable acts were laws that
- A.
Stopped all protest in the colonies
- B.
Punished Boston by taking away rights
- C.
Were passed by the Boston legislature
- 7.The Declaration of Independence said the colonies
- A.
Were now a part of Spain
- B.
Would obey parliament's laws
- C.
Were now independent states
- 8.What word means: refuslal to buy goods or have dealings with a country or other entitity, usually to express disapproval or force acceptance of certain conditions.
- A.
Cash Crop
- B.
Boycott
- C.
Committees of corespondence
- D.
Protest
- 9.What word means: Organized network for passing along news of British activity to the colonies.
- A.
Cash Crop
- B.
Boycott
- C.
Committees of Corespondence
- D.
Protest
- 10.What word means: group of civilians decalred by law to be called to military service and trained as soldiers to fight in emergencies.
- A.
Bayonette
- B.
Soldier
- C.
Marine
- D.
Militia
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