1. Road to Revolution EXAM REVIEW

2. Appalachian Mountains 0 The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of the ?

3. Sugar Act 0 The British government tried to stop smuggling with the ______ Act?

4. Ethan Allen 0 Who led the Green Mountain Boys?

5. Stamp Act 0 What act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?

6. Thomas Jefferson 0 The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was:

7. John Hancock 0 Who was chosen as president of the Second Continental Congress?

8. Thomas Paine 0 Who wrote Common Sense?

9. Writs of assistance 0 To search a colonist’s house, a British customs officer presented :

10. Loyalists 0 Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?

11. Patriots 0 Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American Independence?

12. Olive Branch Petition 0 The colonists expressed their desire for peace and protection in the ________

13. Declaratory 0 Which act stated that Parliament had the right to make laws and levy taxes on the colonists “in all cases what so ever!”

14. They were not represented in Parliament **no taxation without representation 0 The colonists claimed that Parliament did not have the right to tax them because?

15. Violated their rights as Englishmen 0 Colonists objected to both writs of assistance and the Quartering Act because they?

16. Save the East India Tea Co. from going out of business 0 The chief goal of the Tea Act was to

17. Lexington and Concord 0 The battle generally associated with the phrase, “…here the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard ‘round the world.”

18. Defeated **but it was a psychological victory 0 The first major battle of the Revolutionary War was 0 Patriot forces were _____________________in this first major battle. Battle of Bunker’s Hill

19. July 4, 1776 0 The Declaration of Independence was adopted/signed by the Second Continental Congress on:

20. The Declaration of Independence 0 The expression “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” appears in ---- ___________________

21. Consent of the Governed **governments are formed by men to secure their rights 0 Which is the fundamental principle of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

22. First Continental Congress 0 Delegates from twelve colonies gathered in Philadelphia at the ___________________________to unite against the Intolerable Acts

23. Daughters of Liberty 0 Members of the _________________ signed pledges against drinking tea to protest the Tea Act.

24. Committees of Correspondence 0 Sam Adams organized the first ____________________ to inform colonists about British actions.

25. Second Continental Congress 0 Delegates from all thirteen colonies gathered at the ____________________ to appoint a military leader and prepare for war.

26. Sugar 0 Lowered a tax on imports of foreign molasses in order to stop colonial smuggling.

27. Boston Massacre 0 Event was used as “propaganda” to encourage colonial resistance against the British.

28. Tea Act 0 The ___________________________ Act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.

29. Treaty of Paris, 1763 0 The __________________________________ gave Canada, Florida and all French lands east of the Mississippi River to Britain

30. Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) 0 Acts were restrictions passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

31. Stamp Act 0 The ___________________________ taxed all printed / legal documents.

32. Quartering Act 0 The __________________________ required colonists to pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers

33. Boston Tea Party 0 A protest by the Sons of Liberty against a monopoly by the British East India Company was given the name_____________________________________.

34. Townshend Acts 0 The ________________________ taxed imported goods of glass, lead, paper, paint and tea.

35. Proclamation of 1763 0 The ___________________________________Limited colonial westward expansion - - colonist felt this was a limit on their freedom