Ch. 8 Social Studies Test
Please choose from the four choices below in the Multiple Choice
Section. After doing the Multiple Choice, move on to complete both
the Short Answer section and the Extended Response Section. Don't
forget to sign your name!

• 1) Why did the British government want to tax the American colonies?
  

  they didn't like them
  they wanted to make life harder for them
  to help pay for the costs of keeping soldiers in the colonie
  every other country was doing it
• 2) What was the British response to the Boston Tea Party?
  

  they started the intolerable acts
  they were happy that they were invited
  they started a war on the colonies
  they asked to discuss how the colonies felt
• 3) What events led to the Battle of Lexington?
  

  the stamp act
  the intolerable acts
  the soldiers were going to seize & destroy colonists' weapon
  they were fed up with the colonists
• 4) How did taxation lead to trouble between Britain and the colonies?
  

  they started to distrust each other
  they resented not being represented in Parliament
  they wanted everyone to pay taxes
  the colonists started to think of independence
  all of the above
• 5) What events in Boston led the colonists closer to war?
  

  the Boston Massacre
  the Boston Tea Party
  the Intolerable Acts
  all of the above
• 6) What were the results of the first three battles of the American
  Revolution?
  

  the colonists were ahead
  the British started to back down
  the British had won more battles than the Patriots
  we decided to give up and quit
• 7) What do you think was the biggest mistake that Britain made in the
  colonies before 1776?
  Answer:
• 8) What have you learned, that you didn't already know, about
  the American Revolution?