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?