American Revolution Test Review

American Revolution Test Review

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL TEST ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• During the 1760's Great Britain tried to raise money to pay a

huge debt from what war?

Answer: French Indian War

• Following the war, Prime Minister Grenville said land between

Appalachian Mts. and the Mississippi River was off limits to the colonists and reserved for who?

Answer: Indians

• Grenville's decision to make the Ohio River Region off limits to

the colonists was called what?

Answer: Proclamation of 1763

• Grenville also passed to Acts that Britain imposed on the

colonists. What are they?

Answer:

Stamp Act Navigation Act

• The Colonists greatly resented these Acts and cried this famous

quote:

Answer: " No taxation without representation"

• What did the colonists use to get around the Navigation Acts?

Answer: Smuggling 1 / 2

• Britain sent troops to help custom officials collect what?

Answer: Taxes

• What famous event happened when snowballs an sticks were

thrown at British soldiers in Boston, in 1770?

Answer: Boston Massacre

• Following the Boston Massacre, colonists started to organize

themselves by forming what? Sam Adams was a major organizer if them.

Answer: Committees of Correspondence

• Who carried out the Boston Tea Party

Answer: Sons of Liberty

• Who was the main leader of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer: Samuel Adams

• How many chests of tea were thrown into Boston Harbor?

Answer: 342

• Following the Boston Tea Party Britain passed what act?

Answer: Intolerable Act

• Who went to Britain and asked Parliament to repeal and acts

and even offered to pay for the tea?

Answer: Ben Franklin

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