Chapter 5

Question 0

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

Answer 0

War debts

Question 1

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 1

Not strictly enforcing most laws :)

Question 2

What is smuggling?

Answer 2

Importing or exporting without paying taxes

Question 3

What was George Grenville’s first action in the colonies? (To combat what?)

Answer 3

Stop smuggling

Question 4

What are the writs of assistance?

Answer 4

Documents that permitted searches by customs officers looking for smuggled goods

Question 5

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 5

Lowered the taxes on molasses

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Officers were allowed to seize goods without going to court

This contradicts the British law of “innocent until proven guilty”

Question 7

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 7

Placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Patrick Henry

Question 9

What was the name of the settlement created between the Holston and Nolichucky Rivers by regulators that lost at the Battle of Alamance?

Answer 9

Watauga settlement

Question 10

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 10

John Hancock

Question 11

What event did the Colonists use as an example of propaganda?

Answer 11

Boston Massacre

Question 12

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 12

Resolution

Question 13

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 13

5

Question 14

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 14

Townshend Acts

Question 15

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 15

Monopoly

Question 16

What event was a response to the Tea Act of 1773?

Answer 16

The Boston Tea Party

Question 17

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

Answer 17

British Empire

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Coercive Acts

Question 19

What were these acts called by the colonists?

Answer 19

Intolerable Acts

Question 20

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 20

No

Question 21

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 21

Minutemen

Question 22

What was Paul Revere famous for shouting?

Answer 22

“The Regulars Are Out”

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The Battle of Lexington

Question 24

Who was under command of the colonial troops at Bunker Hill?

Answer 24

William Prescott

Question 25

What is his famous quote from this battle?

Answer 25

“Don’t Fire Until You Can See The White Of Their Eyes”

Question 26

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

Answer 26

That defeating the Americans wouldn’t be quick or easy

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Loyalists

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Patriots

Question 29

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 29

Benjamin Franklin

Question 30

What was created by the Second Continental Congress to better organize military efforts?

Answer 30

Continental Army

Question 31

What expressed the colonists desire for peace?

Answer 31

Olive Branch Petition

Question 32

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 32

Common Sense

Question 33

What does Paine believe the colonies should be a refuge from?

Answer 33

Tyrants and persecution

Question 34

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 34

Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

What day was the Declaration of Independence accepted/approved?

Answer 35

July 4, 1776

Question 36

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 36

To explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation

Question 37

Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 37

John Hancock

Question 38

What is the introduction of the Declaration of Independence called?

Answer 38

Preamble

Question 39

Did the Declaration of Independence explain why the colonies chose to form a new nation?

Answer 39

Yes

Question 40

What was rung on July 8, 1774 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 40

Liberty Bell