Leading up to the Revolution - Page 5

Questions
  • Why were the American Articles of Confederation ineffective?
  • Why did the British raise taxes in the American colonies? How did colonists react?
  • What did the 1767 Townshend Acts specify?
  • What are the Sugar and Stamp Acts?
  • Why did American colonists resent British taxes?
  • George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution?
  • What percentage of the colonists were patriots? Tories? Indifferent?
  • Which of these happened first: Boston Massacre, Battle of Lexington, the Boston Tea Party or the Intolerable Acts?
  • Who was involved in the Boston Tea Party?
  • What were reasons that the colonists protested the new acts passed by Parliament?
  • How did the British Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party?
  • What did the Proclamation of 1763 called for?
  • Why did the colonists choose to throw British tea in Boston Harbor?
  • Why did Samuel Adams label the violence in Boston as a massacre?
  • Why did Paul Revere shout "the 'Regulars' are coming?
  • How was Cleopatra related to Rome?
  • What type of government did Rome have until 27 BC?
  • How did Julius Caesar's rule lead to the end of the Roman Republic?
  • The sales tax rate in Alabama is 4 percent and a $20.00 purchase is made. What is the sales tax? What is the total purchase price?
  • What was the Panic of 1837? Who was president?