Chapter 5

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Land was cheaper, many more landowners, colonies started making their own laws

Question 2

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

Answer 2

To help pay off war debts

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 was supposed to lower taxes on molasses to try to convince people to stop smuggling in 1764.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

It allowed customs officers to have more power and control and breaks the english law that you are innocent until proven guilty

Question 6

What was the Stamp Act?

Answer 6

It placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Patrick Henry

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 8

To serve as a secret society formed to protect the rights of colonists and fight taxation by the British (formed by Sam Adams)

Question 9

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Answer 9

Sam Adams

Question 10

What was important about the Declaratory Act?

Answer 10

Stated that England had the right to tax the colonies in all cases

Question 11

What was important about the Townshend Acts?

Answer 11

It taxed imported goods before they arrive 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

It required colonists to house Brittish soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The Boston Massacre

Question 15

What is information designed to influence opinion?

Answer 15

Properganda

Question 16

How many people were killed at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 16

5 people were killed at the Boston massacre

Question 17

What Acts were repealed due to the Boston Massacre?

Answer 17

The Townshand act

Question 18

What occurs when only one company controls a product?

Answer 18

The product becomes cheaper

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The tea is much cheaper ifrom the East India Trade Company

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Brittish Empire

Question 21

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

Answer 21

He placed the Intolerable Acts on Boston

Question 22

Were the Coercive Acts successful in isolating Boston?

Answer 22

No, the other colonies pitched in and helped Boston

Question 23

What is the name of the best militias in Massachusetts?

Answer 23

Minutemen

Question 24

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

Answer 24

The regulars are coming out

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The battle of Lexington

Question 26

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

Answer 26

William Prescot, don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Defeating the Americans wouldnt be quick or easy

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

Patriots

Question 30

Who headed up the first post office in America?

Answer 30

Benjamin Frankiln

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Continential Army

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 persicution

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 to England why the colonies choose to form a 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, 1776 at the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 40

The Libery Bell

Question 41

What does salutary neglect mean?

Answer 41

Not strictly enforcing most laws