How did the American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?

Question

Question 1 options:

By sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

By placing a tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor

By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Answer 1

By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Answer 2

Which concern of the colonists led to the American Revolution?

Question 2 options:

Desire for greater religious freedom

Opposition to British tax policies

Increasing immigration from countries other than Britain

Fear of attacks by American Indians

Answer 3

Opposition to British tax policies

Answer 4

Why were tax laws like the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and Townshend Acts passed by England?

Question 3 options:

To help the colonist become more independent

To help colonist make a better life for themselves

To ensure that their self-government worked

To pay off war debt from the French and Indian War

Answer 5

To pay off war debt from the French and Indian War

Answer 6

Resolved, that the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them . . . is the only security against a burdensome taxation . . .
—Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, May 30, 1765

Which statement best explains why this resolution was adopted?

Question 4 options:

Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre

Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III

Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament

Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party

Answer 7

Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created only by Parliament

Answer 8

Colonist formed different protest groups to provoke the British and fight for independence. Which of the following is the name for one of those groups?

Question 5 options:

Revolutionary Rebels

Freedom Fighters

Sons of Liberty

Continental Children

Answer 9

Sons of Liberty

Answer 10

Why did the Boston Tea Party occur?

Question 6 options:

because the rebels thought tea was only suppose to be for the Navy

because the British loved tea and the colonist knew this

the sons of liberty found they were bored and decided to protest

because the British refused to lift the high tax on tea

Answer 11

because the British refused to lift the high tax on tea

Answer 12

Why were colonists' upset about the tax laws?

Question 7 options:

They did not have the finances to pay the taxes

They lacked representation in Parliament

They wanted separation of church and state

They wanted to get rid of Mercantilism

Question 8 (1 point)

Answer 13

They lacked representation in Parliament

Answer 14

The colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they

Question 9 options:

resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

did not want to share control of the fur trade with France

feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

Answer 15

resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

Answer 16

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

Question 10 options:

Colonists sought military support from France

Colonists organized boycotts of British goods

Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence

Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

Answer 17

Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence