Road to Revolution Answers

1. (A) matches with (2); (B) matches with 11a. B

(1); (C) matches with (3)
11b. It raised prices, and they resented the
2. Proclamation of 1763 Line British troops.
3. Appease Indians so they don’t attack, pay 11c. They boycotted and smuggled.
for the French and Indian War, and keep
colonists and Indians apart 12a. To pay for the British troops.

4. No settlers west of the Appalachians; if 12b. To make sure the colonists paid taxes.
already west, move east; no trading with 12c. More military control for Britain
Indians without a special license;
strengthened the Navigation Acts; stationed 12d. To make more money
troops in west 13. To maintain British troops in America
5a. B 14. Pay for housing and food for British
5b. They felt entitled to settle westwards troops
after the war, they resented political and 15. B
economic control, and British greed
16a. B
5c. They stayed out west, boycotted, and
smuggled. 16b. The British troops were an occupation
army, and they were enforcing laws and
6a. To refuse to buy something taxes rather than fighting war.
6b. To make a person/company/nation 17. A
change its behavior
18a. England closed New York and
6c. B Massachusetts’s assemblies because they
7. To bring products illegally refused to pay for housing and food for
British troops.
8. A
18b. To take New York and Massachusetts
9. To pay for the French and Indian War, and back into British control
to pay for British troops in America
19. To raise revenue and pay for troops
10a. Sugar, wine, cloth, coffee
20. A tax consisting of stamps on all printed
10b. A documents and materials
10c. A 21. It was repealed in 1766.
10d. High prices from tax were passed on to 22. To take back or undo the law
customers.
23a. B
10e. They hoped that the colonists wouldn’t
object as much, because it was an indirect 23b. No taxation without representation,
tax. taxes should be levied by colonial
assemblies, and the taxes were costly.
23c. A 43. They were humiliated and got severe
burns, and many died.
23d. Englishmen also paid the tax.
44. Boston was under British military
24. No taxation without representation occupation, and the colonists were
25. A protesting. An angry crowd taunted soldiers
in the town square.
26a. Stamp Act Congress
45. When soldiers kill many unarmed
26b. Unity, a petition to the English king, people.
and non-importation agreements
46. The crowd threw rocks and ice at the
27a. An agreement not to import something. British soldiers, who fired back into the
27b. A crowd and killed 5 colonists.

28. A formal request signed by many people 47. B

29. Sons of Liberty 48. They used it to increase hate for the
British, to stir up trouble, and to convince
30. A group of women that supported people to fight a revolution.
colonial resistance
49a. The British were killing colonists.
31. C
49b. B
32. B
50. Orange – direct taxes: visible, the Stamp
33. Tar and feathering Act was an example, sales tax is an example,
paid by final user (buyer)
34a. They would be put into prison.
Yellow – indirect taxes: invisible, gasoline
34b. They would be heroes.
tax is an example, paid before product gets
35. A to buyer, it can be unclear how much tax
you’re paying, Britain used this form of tax
36. Liberty trees after it thought the other form angered
37. Behind-the-scenes work colonists

38a. B 51. To tax colonists

38b. A 52. An indirect tax on lead, glass, paint, and

tea
39a. A
53. C
39b. B
54. The tax on tea
40. To put on a tax
55a. B
41. The colonies were starting to take
control of their land away from England. 55b. It raised prices, the taxes paid salaries
of British officials in America, and no
42. Burning hot tar, and then chicken indirect taxation without representation
feathers
56. They boycotted, they smuggled, and the
homespun movement was born.
57. A movement to have everything be 72c. It was difficult for evidence to get to
produced locally in the colonies. For England, so they could get away with
example, boycotting British cloth and crimes.
producing cloth in the colonies instead.
73. They were abusing the colonies.
58. To continue the indirect tax on tea.
74. They helped Boston and formed the 1st
59. It gave a monopoly to the British East Continental Congress.
India Company on tea, continued the
indirect tax on tea, and lowered tea prices. 75. Colonists began to view themselves as
Americans.
60a. B
76. To get the Intolerable Acts repealed.
60b. It was indirect taxation without
representation, and colonial merchants lost 77. Georgia
business and jobs. 78. It backed support for Massachusetts,
61. It let the British East India Company urged boycotts, and urged colonies to train
skip American merchants in the tea trade, so their own militias.
it could sell directly to colonists at lower 79. Farmers
prices.
80a. Battle of Lexington and Concord
62. They smuggled, boycotted, and
protested. 80b. April 1775

63. Boston Tea Party 81a. The Shot Heard Around the World

64. 2 81b. Starting with this battle, kings and

queens around the world were being toppled.
65. When one company has full control of a
market 82a. The British

66. (A) matches with (2); (B) matches with 82b. They got word of a supply of colonial
(1) weapons in Concord and set out to seize it.

67. To punish the colonists and to force them 83a. Regulars

to pay the tea tax. 83b. Minutemen
68. He was very angry that they weren’t 84. Colonists that were ready to fight at a
paying the tea tax. minute’s notice
69. Close Boston harbor, restricted local 85. Paul Revere
government, strengthened Quartering Act,
British soldiers stand trial in England 86a. B
70. Prior, colonial governments had to house 86b. The colonists had already taken them
and feed British soldiers. Now, colonists had away.
to house soldiers in their homes.
87. The British killed several minutemen
71. A and had no casualties.
72a. England
72b. A
88. The minutemen attacked the British all
the way, and a third of the British soldiers
were casualties.
89. A