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American Revolution Test Review
( 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 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 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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