Road to Revolution
Explore the key events, figures, and causes that led to the American Revolutionary War with this Grade 7 social studies worksheet.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your knowledge. This worksheet covers the events and causes leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
1. Which act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, including newspapers and playing cards?
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
2. What was the primary reason for the colonists' slogan "No taxation without representation"?
They wanted direct representation in Parliament.
They believed only their colonial assemblies could tax them.
They were against all forms of taxation.
They wanted to choose who represented them in England.
3. The was a secret organization created in the Thirteen American Colonies to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
4. The Boston was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773.
5. The Proclamation of 1763 prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
True
False
6. The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.
True
False
7. Briefly explain the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence.
8. Describe one way the colonists resisted British policies before the outbreak of war.
Match each person or event on the left with the correct description on the right.
9. Paul Revere
a. Author of 'Common Sense'
10. Thomas Paine
b. Warned colonists of British approach
11. Boston Massacre
c. Clash between colonists and British soldiers