Road To Revolution Vocabulary Question Preview (ID: 57683)


Major Events Leading To The American Revolution. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

A meeting of colonial delegates to discuss how to address problems with Great Britain
a) Minutemen
b) Second Contiental Congress
c) Continental Army
d) First Continental Congress

Law requiring colonists to house British soldiers
a) Quartering Acts
b) Stamp Act of 1765
c) Coercive/Intolerable Acts
d) Tea Act

Laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
a) Quartering Act
b) Stamp Act of 1765
c) Committees of Correspondence
d) Coercive/Intolerable Acts

Incident in which the colonists, dressed as Indians, dumped chests of tea into the Boston Tea Harbor
a) Boston Massacre
b) Minutemen
c) Boston Tea Party
d) First Continental Congress

Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists
a) Tea Act
b) Boston Tea Party
c) Coercive/Intolerable Acts
d) Quartering Acts

Committees formed in towns and colonies to share information about resisting British Laws
a) Samuel Adams
b) Committees of Correspondence
c) First Continental Congress
d) Second Contiental Congress

Incident in which British soldiers fired into a crows of colonists, killing 5
a) Boston Tea Party
b) First Continental Congress
c) Boston Massacre
d) Committees of Correspondence

Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when they bought paper items
a) Tea Act
b) Stamp Act of 1765
c) Coercive/Intolerable Acts
d) Quartering Act

American Revolutionary who helped found the Committees of Correspondence
a) Samuel Adams
b) Stamp Act of 1765
c) Minutemen
d) George Washington

Members of the civilian volunteer militia. Hint: These men were said to be ready to fight at a minute's notice
a) Redcoats
b) Minutemen
c) Continental Army
d) Redcoats

British soldiers wearing red uniforms
a) Second Continental Congress
b) Redcoats
c) Continental Army
d) George Washington

A second meeting of colonial delegates to discuss how to address problems with Great Britain
a) Second Continental Congress
b) Redcoats
c) Continental Army
d) Battle of Bunker Hill

The colonial military force that fought in the Revolutionary War
a) Second Continental Congress
b) Redcoats
c) Continental Army
d) Battle of Bunker Hill

Commander of the Continental Army
a) Second Continental Congress
b) Redcoats
c) Continental Army
d) George Washington

Early battle in Boston that proved the colonists could put up a good fight against the British
a) Battle of Bunker Hill
b) Continental Army
c) Redcoats
d) Second Continental Congress

An event fought between French, Indians and Great Britain between 1754-1763. It allowed Britain to gain more land and also known as the 7 years war.
a) Proclamation of 1763
b) Sugar Act
c) French and Indian War
d) Stamp Act

Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain
a) Patriots
b) Shot heard 'round the world
c) Minutemen
d) Stamp Act

This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
a) Stamp Act of 1765
b) Townshend Acts
c) Sugar Act
d) Intolerable Acts

These acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. This allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods.
a) Stamp Act of 1765
b) Sugar Act
c) Townshend Acts
d) Intolerable Acts

Set duties/taxes on molasses and sugar imported by colonists
a) Stamp Act of 1765
b) Sugar Act
c) Townshend Acts
d) Intolerable Acts

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