Chapter 5 Lesson 1 Tension With Britain Question Preview (ID: 39160)


Tension With Britain. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Why did Great Britain tax the colonists?
a) They were in debt from the war.
b) Great Britain wanted to be rich.
c) They sent soldiers over to protect their new land.
d) Both 1 and 3

What is parliament?
a) A group of rebels
b) a tax on paper
c) a group who makes Britain's laws
d) United States government

A law to tax Colonist on printed materials such as playing cars, news papers, and legal documents.
a) Townshend Acts
b) Intolerable Acts
c) Paper Tax
d) Stamp Act

What does the saying No taxation without representation! mean?
a) Colonists have representatives in Parliament
b) People in Great Britain don't have representatives
c) Colonists have no representatives in Parliament
d) Colonists have say in law

What product was still taxed after they repealed the Townshend Acts?
a) Paper
b) Paint
c) Glass
d) Tea

How did the Colonists take action to show their dislike for the taxes?
a) sit ins and boycotts
b) fights and sit ins
c) threatening stamp agents and sit ins
d) creating effigies and boycotting

What was the name of the special meeting where the colonies gathered to cancel the Stamp Act?
a) Stamp Act Meeting
b) The First Continental Meeting
c) Stamp Act Congress
d) Parliament

What group played an important role in boycotting English goods by sewing and making their own?
a) Daughters of Liberty
b) Sons of Liberty
c) Parliament
d) Congress

A synonym for tariff
a) debt
b) boycott
c) tax
d) repeal

A set of new laws taxes on imported goods from Britain is called ?
a) The Stamp Act
b) The Tea Act
c) The Townshend Acts
d) Tariffs

A law making body or formal meeting
a) congress
b) debt
c) repeal
d) tariff

Congress asked Parliament to ____ the Stamp Act because they disagreed with the purpose of it.
a) tariff
b) repeal
c) agree
d) boycott

Protests used this life-sized puppet to show their dislike of something.
a) doll
b) muppet
c) protestor
d) effigy

A group who organized the protests, frightened and burned the agents homes who sold the stamp.
a) Congress
b) Parliament
c) Sons of Liberty
d) Gangs

What does import mean?
a) goods sent out
b) goods sent in
c) goods sold between colonists
d) goods sold between the soldiers and colonists

Who promoted opposition against the British through her poems, plays and writings?
a) Mary Lewis
b) Mercy Ottis Warren
c) Mary Pitcher
d) Mercy Smith

What did Great Britain do to try to limit protests and get colonists to buy goods?
a) place tariffs on goods
b) sent troops into Boston
c) sent warships into Boston Harbor
d) answers 2 and 3

The colonists began to make tea from plants found North America. This tea is called?
a) Green Tea
b) Freedom Tea
c) Liberty Tea
d) Lipton Tea

Play Games with the Questions above at ReviewGameZone.com
To play games using the questions from above, visit ReviewGameZone.com and enter game ID number: 39160 in the upper right hand corner or click here.

TEACHERS / EDUCATORS
Log In
| Sign Up / Register