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What was the case against the King?
a) a legal case between the colonists and the King about the Stamp Act, Tea Act, and Sugar Act
b) A legal case between the colonists and Parliament about the Boston Massacre
c) A phrase that referred to all of the wrongs the king had done to the colonists
d) A phrase that referred to all of the wrongs the King had done to his soldiers during the war.

How did the Stamp Act affect colonists?
a) It forced them to pay taxes on all printed items.
b) It banned them from mailing letters
c) It caused them to have to house British soldiers
d) It forced them to place a British stamp on anything they mailed.

Who won the Revolutionary War?
a) Parliament and King George
b) Great Britain
c) The Sons of Liberty
d) American Colonists

Why were many colonists angry about the Sugar Act?
a) taxed printed items
b) taxed tea
c) it forced the colonists to pay extra taxes on some goods, including sugar
d) taxed baked goods

How did the colonists respond to the Proclamation of 1763?
a) many just settled wherever they wanted to
b) protesting
c) Boston tea party
d) Boston Massacre

What was the Seven Years War fought over?
a) the tea party
b) the Boston Massacre
c) taxes
d) land and power

What was Parliament?
a) the British government
b) the US government
c) an act passed by the British
d) Early groups of colonists who met to discuss the revolution

Who won the Seven Years war?
a) French
b) British
c) colonists
d) Americans

What was the Proclamation of 1763?
a) To turn something around
b) rule requiring the colonists to trade with the French and Native Americans
c) A British rule banning colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
d) The end of the war

What does the word revolution mean in the phrase American Revolution?
a) To turn something around
b) to turn over or overthrow a goverment
c) to turn towards a new way of thinking
d) A time in American history when colonists overthrew the British government

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
a) just before the beginning of the Revolutionary War
b) during the Revolutionary War
c) Right at the end of the Revolutionary War
d) Many years after the Revolutionary War

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