5th - SS Chapter 8 Lesson 2

Question 0

A group that let colonists share information by mail?

Answer 0

Committee of Correspondence

Question 1

An event in 1770 in which British soldiers shot five colonists?

Answer 1

Boston Massacre

Question 2

An act that forced colonists to pay taxes on British tea?

Answer 2

Tea Act

Question 3

An event in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor?

Answer 3

Boston Tea Party

Question 4

Five acts passed by Britain to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 4

Intolerable Acts

Question 5

Colonists who were against British rule?

Answer 5

Patriots

Question 6

Colonists who were loyal to King George and the British government?

Answer 6

Loyalists

Question 7

A 1774 meeting at which representatives from the colonies voted to stop trading with Britain and to start training colonists to fight?

Answer 7

First Continential Congress

Question 8

A volunteer army?

Answer 8

Militia

Question 9

Militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice?

Answer 9

Minutemen

Question 10

What was the event called when angry colonists surrounded some British soldiers, the soldiers panicked and fired into the crowd killing five colonists?

Answer 10

The Boston Massacre

Question 11

What is the killing of many people who cannot defend themselves?

Answer 11

Massacre

Question 12

What caused British soldiers to fire at the colonists?

Answer 12

Fist fights between soldiers and colonists were a common sight since the British soldiers first arrived. So they panicked when surrounded by angry colonists.

Question 13

Parliament cancelled all but which tax?

Answer 13

Tea Tax

Question 14

What was the goal of the British in keeping the Tea Tax?

Answer 14

Was to show the colonists that they still had the right to tax the colonies.

Question 15

Who formed the Committee of Correspondence?

Answer 15

Samuel Adams

Question 16

What problem led Samuel Adams to create a Committee of Correspondence?

Answer 16

He felt it took too long for news to travel from one colony to another. So if the colonies were going to work together a faster way needed to be found.

Question 17

Why did Parliament pass the Tea Act?

Answer 17

Two goals:

1. Was to help the struggling East India Company
2. Was to get the colonists to pay taxes to Britian

Question 18

What did the colonists do to show Parliament that they didn’t want to pay the Tea Tax?

Answer 18

On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks rowed out to three British ships, boarded those ships, chopped open the chests of tea with axes and dumped the tea into the harbor.

Question 19

What happened as a result of the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 19

1. British soldiers returned to Boston. Colonists were ordered to feed and house them.
2. A British General (Thomas Gage) in control of Massachusetts.
3. The port of Boston was closed until the colonists paid for the tea they destroyed.

Question 20

What did the colonists call these new laws passed by the British?

Answer 20

Intolerable Acts

Question 21

What was another effect of the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 21

Forced many colonists to take sides in the conflict between Boston and Britain. Patriots and Loyalists

Question 22

What decisions did Patriot leaders make at the First Continental Congress?

Answer 22

They voted to stop all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed and that each colony should training militias.

Question 23

When and where was the First Continental Congress held?

Answer 23

In September 1774 in Philadelphia

Question 24

Which colony did George Washington represent?

Answer 24

Virginia

Question 25

Why did Patrick Henry believe Virginia’s militias should be prepared?

Answer 25

In his famous speech in a church in Richmond, Virginia, Henry warned militias to prepare for battle. War with Britain was coming.