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Reasons for Independence

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Question 1

1.

How many colonies were there?

Question 2

2.

Define tax.

Question 3

3.

What is the name of the law-making body in England?

Congress

Parliament

House of Delegates

Question 4

4.

What is the number one reason why the colonists did not like the new tax laws imposed by England?

They did not have representatives who spoke for them to make these laws. 

England was too far away.

They didn't believe anyone should have to pay taxes at all. 

Question 5

5.

What state led the colonies in speaking out against unfair laws?

Question 6

6.

What is the name of the law-making body in Virginia?

Congress

Parliament

House of Burgesses 

Question 7

7.

Where did the first shots of the Revolutionary War take place?

England

Massachusetts

Virginia

Question 8

8.

In what year did the war begin?

Question 9

9.

What was written in the Declaration of Independence?

Reasons for independence and ideas for self-government.

The new laws written by the colonists in Virginia.

The old laws written by England. 

Question 10

10.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?