Chap 5

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean

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Question 2

What three things lead to individualism being strong in the colonies?

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Question 3

Why did England place a number of taxes (acts) against the colonists?

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Question 4

What is importing or exporting without paying proper taxes on goods? (Also GB’s top priority in the colonies at
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Question 5

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

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Question 6

What was the problem for the colonists with the Sugar Act? (What British law was contradicted?

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Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

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Question 8

Who persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act?

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Question 9

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty

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Question 10

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty

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Question 11

What was important about the Declaratory Act

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Question 12

What was important about the Townshend Acts

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Question 13

Who owned the ship Liberty

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Question 14

What was required of colonial citizens when the Quartering Act was passed

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Question 15

What event did the Colonists use as an example of propaganda

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Question 16

What is information designed to influence opinion

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Question 17

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre

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Question 18

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre

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Question 19

What occurs when only one company controls a product

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Question 20

What event was a response to the Tea Act of 1773

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Question 21

During the time of the Boston Tea Party most colonists considered themselves to be part of what empire

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Question 22

As a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, what did King George III impose upon Massachusetts

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Question 23

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

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Question 24

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts

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Question 25

What did Paul Revere shout to warn the colonists of an impending attack

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Question 26

What battle featured the “shot heard ‘round the world”

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Question 27

What did the British find out after the Battle of Bunker Hill?

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Question 28

Who were people who considered the unfair taxes upon the colonies not good reasons to rebel?

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Question 29

Who were determined to fight the British until independence is gained?

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