Instructions:
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? 

8)
What have you learned, that you didn't already know, about 
the American Revolution?