Chapter 5

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Taxes, acts, and the bostin massacure

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Because of the french and indian war

Question 3

What is importing or exporting without paying proper taxes on goods? (Also GB’s top priority in the colonies at this time.)

Answer 3

Smuggling

Question 4

How was the Sugar Act supposed to stop smuggling?

Answer 4

It lowered taxes on molasses

Question 5

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

Answer 5

They created the stamp act to make people pay for all printed matirial

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

An act that made people pay for all printed matirial

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Patric Henrey

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 8

To protect the rights of the colonists

Question 9

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Samuel Adams

Question 10

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 10

It stated England had the right to tax the colonies in all cases

Question 11

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 11

Taxed imported goods before they arrived in the colonies

Question 12

Who owned the ship Liberty?

Answer 12

John Hancock

Question 13

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

Answer 13

To house british soldiers in barracks or their homes

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The bostin massacare

Question 15

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 15

Propaganda

Question 16

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

5

Question 17

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

The townshend acts

Question 18

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 18

Monopoly

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The bostin tea party

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Great britan

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Intolerable act

Question 22

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Muinitemen

Question 24

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

Answer 24

” the regulars are coming!”

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Lexington

Question 26

Who was under command of the colonial troops at Bunker Hill and what was his famous quote?

Answer 26

William prescot

Question 27

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

Answer 27

That the settlers wouldnt be so easy to defeat

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Loyalists

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Rebels

Question 30

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 30

Benjamin Franklin

Question 31

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

Answer 31

The post office?

Question 32

What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write?

Answer 32

Common sence

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 seperate from Great Britan

Question 37

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

Answer 37

John Hanckock

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, 1776 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 40

The liyberty bell

Question 41

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 41

Not strongly enforceing laws