Chapter 5

Question 1

Great Britain won

Answer 1

French,Indian war

Question 2

Great Britain gained

Answer 2

Huge amount of land in North America

Question 3

Also gained a huge

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Debt

Question 4

Debt=

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That it owned money

Question 5

Britain needed to send thousands soldiers to North America Britain because?

Answer 5

To protect the new lands.

Question 6

Leaders in Great Britain decided to

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Tax American colonist to pay for part of the debt

Question 7

Money raised from taxing colonists would also help

Answer 7

pay the cost of defeating the colonies.

Question 8

George III

Answer 8

King of Great Britain supported the idea of taxing colonists.

Question 9

so did many members of

Answer 9

Britain law-making academy

Question 10

Parliament

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People who make Britain laws.

Question 11

Members of Parliament represented

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Different areas in Great Britain

Question 12

In 1765..

Answer 12

Parliament passed the stamp act

Question 13

This law placed a tax on paper products in the colonies

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Such as legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.

Question 14

When the colonists bought these items they would have to

Answer 14

Buy a stamp

Question 15

When the colonists learned about the stamp act

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They complained

Question 16

Parliament representatives came from the American colonists

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Since colonists had no representatives in Parliament, they thought parliament shouldn’t not tax them.

Question 17

A common cry in the colonist was

Answer 17

Taxation without representation

Question 18

No taxation without representation

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Don’t tax us without our input

Question 19

Patrick Henry was a

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Lawyer from Virginia.

Question 20

He fought the

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Stamp act

Question 21

He gave a

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Powerful speech to Virginia law makers

Question 22

In October 1765

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Representative from nine colonies met in New York City.

Question 23

They included

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Lawyers, farmer, and business people

Question 24

The meeting they held was called

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Stamp act congress

Question 25

Congress asked parliament

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To repeal the stamp act

Question 26

Sons of liberty

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Group of men who organized protests.

Question 27

Effigy

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Life sized puppet.

Question 28

Boycotts

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People act together and refuse to use or buy something

Question 29

Charles Townshend made a new set of laws to control the colonists called Townshend act they taxed things like

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Paper, wool,glass,paint, and lead

Question 30

Tariff

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Tax on goods coming from another country.

Question 31

Samuel Adam’s

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Fought for American rights

Question 32

Mercy Otis Warren

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Encouraged people to boycott tea and other imported goods/ quote, “ we’ll quit the useless vanities.”

Question 33

Daughters of liberty

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Weaved their own cloth / made their own clothes

Question 34

Tea tax

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Tea was the only thing taxed after the Townshend act.

Question 35

Boston massacre

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British soldiers shot and killed 5 unarmed people.

Question 36

Crispus Attucks

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Was a sailor who had escaped slavery years before. Who died in the Boston massacre

Question 37

Massacre

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The killing of many people.

Question 38

Espress riders

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Their way to get written massages quickly around the world

Question 39

Paul revere

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Boston silversmith, was one of the riders.

Question 40

Boston tea party

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Because tax was still on tea, and only one company could sell tea “ East india company. People dressed as native Americans through the tea in the water. 342 chests.

Question 41

Intolerable acts

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The colonists had to quarter and shelter to British troops. Colony of Massachusetts was put in martial law. Blocking all exports.

Question 42

Quarter =

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Give food to

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Martial law

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Controlled by the military.

Question 44

Patriots

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People who didn’t like British.

Question 45

Loyalist

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People Who were for the British

Question 46

Neutral

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They didn’t choose one side or the other.

Question 47

Thomas Hutchinson, a Loyalist,

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Was governor of Massachusetts at the time of the tea party

Question 48

In September 1774

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Representatives from all the colonies except Georgia met To discuss the events in Boston. they called the meeting the first continental congress.

Question 49

Congress agreed to stop all trade

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With Britain until the intolerable act were repealed.

Question 50

Representatives also agreed to ask the king to help

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Solve the problem of taxes

Question 51

The Congress Hoped to settle the conflict, peaceful

Answer 51

But they knew they might have to fight

Question 52

Each colony agreed to train a militia

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Or a volunteer army, some militias Call themselves minute man because they needed to be ready to fight at a minute notice.

Question 53

British soldiers reached

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Lexington at 5:00 am. The morning of April 19, 1775

Question 54

About _ minutemen were waiting for them

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70

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The soldiers approached the colonists and

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Told them to leave.

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Then someone, no one knows who

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Fired a gunshot

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Both sides began shooting

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And the British killed 8 minutemen

Question 58

The British soldiers advanced to concord to search for

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Weapons

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Patriot women in concord helped

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Hide the weapons,

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But soldiers never made it to

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The center of concord

Question 61

A battle began at

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Concord’s North Bridge

Question 62

The militia, who outnumbered the soldiers, forced

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The British to turn back

Question 63

As the soldiers matched back to Boston

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Patriots began firing their weapons on them behind trees and stone walls.

Question 64

By the time the British soldiers reached Boston

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About 250 of them had been killed or wounded.

Question 65

After those first battles

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The British soldiers stayed in Boston

Question 66

In order to keep them in the city

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Patriot militias sneaked onto nearby Breed’s hill on the night of June 16 and built a fort.

Question 67

The next morning

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More than 2000 British soldiers began marching up the hill to attack the Patriots.

Question 68

Twice the patriots stopped the British captured the hill.

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The third time, though, the patriots ran out of ammunition and the British captured the hill

Question 69

Continental army

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Army of paid soldiers from the colonies.

Question 70

Petition

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Written request for rights or benefits.

Question 71

Independence

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Freedom from rule by others.